At a southern Florida branch of a large restaurant chain, staff and customers were repeatedly targeted by car theft and break-ins in the parking lot.
The analogue legacy system could not give positive identification on subjects even 50 yards away.
Installer Navco, based in Anaheim, was called in to upgrade the system following a violent incident.
The company installed IQeye Sentinel cameras from IQinVision to cover the car park in “forensic detail resolution” and shortly afterwards a car was broken into. The megapixel video was retrieved and a perpetrator was apprehended within days.
Said Navco’s Lee Brazzel: “We could see the make and model of the perpetrator’s car from 100 yards away.
“With analogue cameras we would have been lucky if we could tell a pick-up from a sedan.”
In another incident, installer Access Security upgraded a standard resolution camera system with megapixel technology shortly before an audacious theft from a Pennsylvania jewellery store.
A man who had spent two hours in the store palmed a $47,000 engagement ring while a salesperson was putting away multiple rings he had viewed.
The upgraded system – an Exacq Technologies DVR and IQeye megapixel cameras – caught the entire incident.
After positively identifying the man stealing the ring, Access Security exported the video to CD for police and created a still for the newspapers.
After the image appeared in the papers the suspected was apprehended within 48 hours.
The Chief Deputy District Attorney was quoted as saying the video was “critical to the arrest”
Said Peter DeAngelis, IQinVision president and CEO: “We’ve been saying it for some time now, megapixel is now mainstream”.
