Every campus has unique safety needs. OpenEye Web Services (OWS) keeps your organization’s safety and security efforts proactive with analytics, IoT integrations, and powerful visual verification tools.
OpenEye Vice President of Marketing Ian Siemer. Photo courtesy of Ian Siemer
In this interview with Campus Safety, OpenEye Vice President of Marketing Ian Siemer explains how a cloud-managed video security solution can turn insights into action—improving student and faculty safety without burdening campus resources.
Campus Safety: What is the top video surveillance system from OpenEye, and what makes it special? How does it apply to healthcare facilities, schools and/or higher education security, public safety and/or emergency management?
Ian Siemer: OpenEye Web Services is a scalable and secure cloud-managed video surveillance platform that streamlines operations and reduces the burden on IT, making it easier to manage and maintain video deployments and integrations of all sizes. Our open cloud platform combines and analyzes event data from video analytics, alarm systems, access control, smart sensors, and IoT devices. We transform events into actionable insights that enhance security and increase the safety of campuses of all kinds.
CS: What other products or offerings would you like to highlight, and what are some of their qualities and benefits?
Siemer: OpenEye’s new series of cloud cameras deliver an all-in-one video solution with onboard recording and a dedicated analytics processor, providing all the benefits of OpenEye Web Services (OWS) in a flexible serverless architecture.
Cloud cameras allow infinite scalability with every camera added to a location bringing its own storage and processing power, letting you seamlessly scale over time with no limitations on channel count or system resources. Locations with existing recorders can also add cloud cameras to expand storage or analytics capabilities, making OWS one of the most flexible deployment architectures on the market.
Powered by the full capabilities of OWS, cloud cameras support health monitoring, real-time alerting, priority event cloud recording, centralized management, and the latest analytics technology.
CS: How do OpenEye and its offerings address the needs of hospitals, schools and/or universities?
Siemer: OpenEye Web Services helps hospitals, schools and universities of all sizes:
- Prioritize Campus Safety: Focus on the events that matter most with video analytics such as person, vehicle, loitering and license plate recognition.
- Ensure System Uptime: Ease the burden on IT teams with automated software updates, system health monitoring, camera image checks, inventory reports and more.
- Expedite Incident Response: Quickly identify and respond to incidents such as vaping, unauthorized access, loitering after-hours, flagged license plates or gunshot detection with custom alerts via phone or email.
CS: What else is new or noteworthy about your company for 2025?
Siemer: Beyond the release of OpenEye’s new line of cloud cameras we are also extremely excited to announce a recent milestone for our cloud video platform — OpenEye Web Services (OWS) now supports over one million channels of video, highlight the trust and confidence so many place in OpenEye Web Services.
CS: What is OpenEye’s overall value proposition to schools, universities and/or hospitals? Why should they do business with you?
Siemer: OpenEye helps you stay focused on what matters most with actionable insights that let you see the next opportunity to secure and scale smart environments. Our intelligent and aware cloud-managed video technology integrates easily with your existing systems so you can upgrade your surveillance—and enhance experiences for employees, faculty and students alike.
OpenEye Web Services provides an end-to-end security solution, whether through our family of products and services or our open ecosystem, which ensures your security works with the technology you have today and the solutions you adopt tomorrow.
CS: Is there anything else you would like to add?
Siemer: OpenEye Web Services is the most flexible, cloud-managed video platform on the market, meeting users where their IT and operational needs are. We now offer cloud cameras, entry-level PoE appliances, Windows and Linux servers, installation on 3rd party hardware (including virtualized environments), and an open ecosystem allowing you to connect to most third party cameras. For more information on our products and services, click here.
