Samsung video surveillance cameras will be used at Manchester Metropolitan University’s new business school from September.
The facility is a GB pound 75million building on the university’s All Saints campus. Around 4,000 undergraduate and 1,000 postgraduate students will be using the site.
One-hundred-and-ten Samsung dome cameras have been installed in the building, 95 of which are SNV-3080 fixed position dome cameras. The remainder are SNP-3301 PTZ domes that have a 30x optical zoom facility. Both models have day/night cameras and feature wide dynamic range technology, which assists in locations where there may be strong contrasting lighting conditions.
They also both offer multiple streaming of images with a choice of MJPEG, MPEG-4 and H.264 compression methods, providing the option to send images to multiple locations at various frame rates up to 25 frames per second, and at different resolutions. This allows different authorised users to monitor live images at the university’s control room while being able to record and store video evidence at another location.
Mark Shutt, Manchester Metropolitan University security manager said: “The teaching rooms and lecture theatres in the new business school will be equipped with the very latest IT equipment, projection and audio equipment. We will need to detect any would-be thieves who might be tempted to steal the valuable equipment that we have invested in to provide the best possible teaching facilities.”
