Case Study: Golf Mill Shopping Center achieves enhanced patron safety and reduced insurance fraud with Axis Communications

Golf Mill Shopping Center deploys analytic surveillance system for patron safety and thwarting insurance fraud

Golf Mill Shopping Center in Niles, Illinois, faced rising visitor and vehicle traffic after adding restaurants, a multiplex theater, off‑track betting and a 24‑hour gym, creating increased safety and insurance‑fraud concerns. To meet that challenge without tearing up floors for cabling, mall owners hired Secure Integrations to deploy Axis Communications network cameras and video analytics over a multi‑node wireless mesh network.

Secure Integrations installed 50 Axis Communications network cameras (linked via a Firetide wireless mesh) to cover 120 specialty shops, four department stores and 89 acres of parking, with live feeds available at a central station and on handheld PDAs. The Axis solution delivered clearer images, embedded motion/audio analytics and tamper alarms, helping deter theft, reduce fraudulent insurance claims and petty theft, speed incident response, and provide patron‑traffic data for marketing and leasing—while avoiding a wired CCTV buildout that would have cost at least three times as much.

Golf Mill Shopping Center

Eugene Szatkowsi

President