UCSD Brings Surveillance Into the Light With Sustainable MicroPower Solution
The surveillance system at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) manages about 1,000 channels of video, including a mix of IP cameras (75 percent) and legacy analog cameras (25 percent). These cameras are used to view university centers, provide campus overviews, and operate alongside 12 mass notification system towers. They also view animal research facilities, which can be targets for protests, and a robust video management system is integrated into the campus police dispatch center and two other video monitoring centers.
Despite this extensive surveillance system, there were still locations that were beyond the view of campus police, especially remote locations outside the reach of the campus network or existing power supplies. Campus police also wanted additional video views of special events, specifically the Sun God Festival, a 10-hour spring concert event with 25,000 attendees held in and around an athletic field beyond the boundaries of traditional surveillance.