Loyola University Case Study: The 'Best of the Best'

Security Technology & Design magazine
September, 2007

When Security Technology & Design surveyed the security industry for the "best of the best" among innovative security applications, they selected Loyola University in Chicago. The Magazine’s 2007 Innovation award was presented to Frank Dale, manager of physical security at the ASIS conference.

The university's initial task of creating a single-card platform exploded into a campus-wide security upgrade that included IP video surveillance and access control. "The assessment, planning and implementation process was well thought out and included input for a particularly diverse set of stakeholders," one of the judges wrote of the Loyola project. "Throughout the entire endeavor, the consultant and project sponsor worked collaboratively...which led to an innovative and even cutting-edge technology and process implementation."

Loyola University is one of the largest of the 28 Jesuit universities and colleges in the United States, comprised of three campuses in the greater Chicago area. The AXxess™ NS with fully integrated MAXxess ViewPoint™ installed at Loyola provided them with a fully integrated security management platform using smartcard technology. Four of their disparate databases were merged into a single database to provide a single card solution for their security, housing, library privileges, cafeteria access and other retail POS systems.

The system is connected via IP to Dedicated Micros DVRs and a Milestone NVR managing over 250 cameras. ViewPoint allows operators to view cameras from both recording devices either manually or by automatic call up of a view from an alarm event. All alarm sensors are being managed on the AXxess NS system including the integration of multiple DMP intrusion alarm panels through MultiPort™.

“We worked very closely with the University’s security team and their consultant, Jim Gompers, and are very pleased to see that Loyola has been recognized with this award” said Wes Appleby, President and COO of MAXxess.

The article appears in the September, 07 issue of Security Technology and Design and may be seen here.