The MOBs’ property management staff worked with Bandwidth Dynamics, a telecommunications consulting company, to choose a network video surveillance system consisting of 56 network cameras (AXIS Communications, Chelmsford, Mass.) spread across five buildings. The network cameras were installed both inside and outside of buildings, near entrances, exits, elevators, fire escapes and parking lots. The system would use Xprotect surveillance application software, developed by Milestone Systems of Beaverton, Ore.

The system gave authorized users the ability to view live video from network cameras over their PCs, provided the PC was within the building’s wide area network or WAN. The software provided the MOBs with functionality items, such as motion detection and the ability to archive and record video.