Chicago-area Mall Fights Crime and Safeguards Shoppers with Axis Network Cameras
Axis Communications, Chelmsford, Mass., announced that Chicago-area Stratford Square Mall relied on Axis network cameras to protect public safety and minimize shoplifting during the 2014holiday shopping season, which was a heavy one. The National Retail Federation predicted it would have the highest growth in holiday sales since 2011, with a 4 percent increase in 2014. While the final figures for sales over the now past holiday season are still being tallied, security in malls is a top priority for the security industry at any time of year.
The Stratford Square Mall, which welcomes over 12 million visitors a year, worked with Tinley Park, IL-based IT services company Preferred Communication Systems to install the high-definition cameras in 2013 throughout common areas in the 1.3 million-square-foot facility.