A total of 14 schools, in Edwardsville, make up what is known as the Edwardsville School District. The buildings have been installed with analogue CCTV security since 2003, but have since moved onto IP surveillance.
As new buildings in the district were built, director of technology, Bill Miener and team used encoders to put the analog cameras onto their expanding IP network. By 2007, Edwardsville was ready to make the jump to switching out their analog cameras and encoders.
“We looked at a lot of different cameras,” said Miener. “The IQinVision representative gave us a few IQeye cameras to test drive. We took several camera models to a number of different sites and viewed the video on laptops. After testing for a few weeks, we really liked what the IQeye cameras offered and they were affordable for our budget. We put in 48 IQeye cameras initially, and upon completion we clicked through those 48 camera views, I have to say we were quite pleased.”
Edwardsville has deployed 471 IQeye cameras so far -two thirds are indoor cameras and the rest are located outdoors.
IQeye Sentinels have been installed in the outdoors and Alliance domes indoors, with resolutions ranging from 3 MP up to 5 MP. Camera data is managed by Milestone open platform software for IP network-based video surveillance.
“The Sentinels,” said Miener, “we love them.” In addition to the school buildings, Edwardsville has also installed 24 IQeye Sentinels to provide surveillance for a very large sports complex.
During the school day, a security officer in each school location does live monitoring of their own cameras, focusing on entrances/exits and doing a video “tour” throughout the building. Video is stored for just over a week in order for security staff to review any incidents which may have transpired.
“In the past with our analog cameras, if we were more than 15-20 feet from the camera, identifying someone was hard,” Miener said. “Once we went with IQeye cameras, it’s been a leap in capability.”
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