IP cameras come of age for MCG

Once a niche area of the physical security market, surveillance cameras capable of utilising IP networks have begun showing up on IT managers' radars as a means to both secure their organisations and help achieve shared business goals.

One organisation to cotton on to the power of IP cameras as an application platform is Swinburne University of Innovation.

Encouraged by the strength of its own network - a 10 gigabit per second backbone runs between the university's six Victorian campuses - and the successful roll out of some 310 cameras to date from Axis Communications, the university has since begun to deploy IP-based smart applications to make better use of its visual network.

The university's IT security officer

According to the university's IT security officer, Chris Goetze, Swinburne has adopted a people counting application supplied by local analytics vendor, SenSen Networks, running over the IP cameras deployed in its main library at the Hawthorn campus as a means of providing business analytics information to IT staff.

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