A ‘third eye’ will soon track nefarious elements and check untoward incidents on the main campus of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS) in Kalady here.
The Rs. 1 crore worth project aims at setting up over 55 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras on key locations including the administrative and academic blocks in the first phase.
The campus surveillance initiative has also found place among the key proposals being submitted before the Union government’s Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) Mission Authority for assessment and final approval. SSUS is among the four varsities in the State, which had received the approval for infrastructure grant from the Project Approval Board of the RUSA this fiscal.
“The CCTVs will be installed as part of enhancing safety and security measures on the campus. We also hope that it will help in checking untoward incidents besides keeping track of miscreants, if any, who enter the campus and create problems,” said Dr. T. P. Ravindran, Registrar.
The project proposal stated that 15 CCTVs will be placed indoors at the administration block while another seven will be installed outside. Nearly twenty six indoor cameras will be set up at the academic block while the outdoors will have seven CCTVs. Seven cameras will come up near the main gate to track the movement at the security-wise sensitive region.
Senior officials close to the development pointed out that recording of the activities will be done on hard disks through a dedicated LAN system.
The areas will be monitored and recorded using high resolution cameras, with night vision facilities.
A control room facility will come up on the main campus to view the recorded visuals. It could be archived and viewed on the LED HD television.
“The visuals could be useful as evidence for various inquiries. The proposed design is made in such a way that the entire CCTV network will be isolated from the existing campus network,” said Dr. Ravindran.
