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School/Campus Security
Pixim-Powered Cameras Offer “Peace-of-Mind” for Parents
Safety and security have become top priorities for schools, colleges, and universities everywhere. In addition to metal detectors, many schools are installing security cameras to monitor activities within classrooms, lecture halls, residence facilities, and hallways, as well as outside campus buildings. The wide variation in lighting among these areas presents a challenge that traditional CCD-based security cameras cannot overcome.
Common security camera problems for schools and campuses include:
• Lack of detail in backlight, under fluorescent lights, or outdoors
• Low clarity in shadows, such as dark corridors
• Image wash-out in glare or with reflections from glass and metal
• Color inaccuracies in varying lighting conditions
• Low-quality DVR recordings
Pixim's Digital Pixel System® ultra-wide dynamic range technology, a true breakthrough in imaging technology, delivers unprecedented image quality in all lighting conditions. Cameras powered by Pixim's specialized image processing chipsets can significantly enhance school and campus security through the following capabilities:
- Widest dynamic range: Captures highlight and shadow detail in the same scene.
- Highest total resolution: Makes it easier to distinguish image features and details, even in highly variable lighting conditions.
- Superior color rendering: Accurately displays color even in difficult lighting such as backlight, indoor/outdoor, glare, reflection, and fluorescent lighting.
- No "camera blindness": Eliminates the vertical smear, pixel blooming, and other image artifacts commonly encountered in high-contrast scenes.
- High image compression: Improves image quality with smaller file size - allowing DVRs to record with higher frame rate or higher resolution, or both, while maintaining the same total recording time.
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Pixim, compared with CCD technology, enables the higher compression of images taken by security cameras, which leads to advantages for DVRs:
- Allows the use of higher-resolution settings on the DVR without sacrificing the overall recording time (i.e., # days on a DVR).
- Enables more frames per second to be written on the DVR without sacrificing overall recording time (i.e., # days on a DVR) or resolution.
- Permits the connection of more cameras to each DVR, without sacrificing resolution or frame rate.
- Provides recordings with higher image quality, for more accurate identification of people and events and more compelling evidence.
- Makes it easier to comply with FBI and other regulations that require storage of 10 to 30 days' worth of video - without sacrificing resolution, lowering the frame rate, or reducing the number of cameras connected to each DVR.
- Optimizes the investment in expensive DVRs.
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| The images show side-byside frames captured from a typical building lobby application. The subject and both indoor and outdoor detail are all clearly visible in the Pixim DPS image on the right. The outside details are not clear in the CCD image on the left. | |
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The University of Arizona installed security cameras in its libraries, residence halls, and fraternity and sorority houses to improve security.
