Education security applications - Case studies
Students and also professors and staff at the College of Technology and Economics in Chur (HTW Chur), Switzerland, are profiting from the contactless LEGIC smart card in the form of a student and staff ID. This has brought their identification IDs into line with the very latest state of the art, and also gives them many advantages besides the visual ID. Thanks to the solution realized by EVIS AG and Kaba AG, the HTW Chur is placing new trails in both student and staff identification,...
The ruggedised TransVu mobile digital CCTV recorder from AD Group - the parent company of Dedicated Micros - is playing an invaluable role ensuring the safety and security of the students who travel daily on 100 school buses serving the public schools system in Tallahassee, Florida, with a further 100 planned as part of an ongoing program by integrator North American Video.TransVu - which recently received the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category (Britain's most prestigious bu...
Education of the future - Paperless, wireless and safe The Republic Polytechnic (RP) is one of five polytechnics in Singapore - and one of the most modern in the world. First established in August 2002, the number of students increased from 800 in 2003 to 3,600 in 2005. The courses of study include communications and automation technology, information technology and applied sciences such as biotechnology and new media. All students and staff at the RP have notebook computers that are...
ACTi's Video Server, SED-2100R, and Transcoder, SED-3200, has enabled California's high school incorporate IP based CCTV systems. Incorporating with customer's current DVR system, the new system solves the distance limitation between analog camera and DVR. By deploying a hybrid CCTV+IP system, it provides simple and cost effective solution over LAN environments.There has been DVR system in the school already and the DVR system is planned to extend to remote cameras, which...
IndigoVision's integrated IP video solution is providing state-of-the-art CCTV surveillance for the new £5 million Automotive Centre of Excellence at Gateshead College. The centre provides automotive, manufacturing and logistics training and includes a vehicle showroom, workshops and specialist welding facilities all fully supported with extensive IT.The college wanted a leading edge networked based solution to CCTV surveillance and chose IndigoVision over alternative IP based sy...
Alarm Service Group Ltd, the leading independent installer in the South West, has opted for SeQuad Sequential Confirmation Detectors from Optex Europe for a major Schools PFI project currently underway in Swindon, where the need for maximum reliability and minimum false alarms is paramount.Sequential confirmation is one of the most popular ACPO-approved options for delivering confirmed alarm activations, requiring activations from two separate detectors within a defined period of time to indicat...
Founded in 1884, Temple University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has over 34,000 students and 5,500 staff spread over five US campuses and several overseas locations. The main campus sits on 114 acres located in the centre of the city, making for a highly urban university setting-interesting and exciting on the one hand, but one that poses security challenges and issues of student and staff safety on the other. The ChallengeThe Philadelphia main campus has more than 150 build...
A girls' college has shown that CCTV is not only useful for crime prevention - it can be used as a staff training tool, too.Norbury Manor Business and Enterprise College for Girls in Thornton Heath, Surrey has invested in the latest video surveillance technology from Vicon to enable it to remote monitor the performance of trainee teachers via CCTV cameras.The college, which has more than 900 students studying at its secondary school and sixth form centre, invests heavily in the ongoing...
Shenzhen TsingHua Experiment School, with combined primary, secondary and pre-university, located at BaoAn District of Shenzhen, PR China, has lately installed a LEGIC technology based multi-functional contactless smart card system through TsingHua Mao Wu Co.The system services over 5,000 teachers and students, has one card issuing centre, and manages five major buildings in the campus, the Lecture Building, Office Building, Multifunctional Building, Dormitory and the Gymnasium. ...
Education establishments across the UK can learn about their security needsAs part of G4Tec’s latest marketing campaign aimed at the Education sector, the company is offering education establishments across the UK the opportunity for a free comprehensive security evaluation of their premises and campuses, simply by filling out a form. The campaign encompasses all sectors of education including, Universities, Private and Public Schools, Specialist Academies and Higher Education Colleges.&nb...
A cause for concern. Vandalism, arson, theft, bullying and aggressions on staff, child abduction or abuses…Ultimately, it is the responsibility of primary and secondary schools or universities to ensure the safety and security of staff, pupils, and visitors to their premises. Damaged or stolen properties and sick-days taken by teachers after physical or mental ill-treatment by pupils or parents are also costing millions to the education sector every year.But funding a security syste...
Parents who want to pick up their kids at school in one New Jersey district now can submit to iris scans, as the technology that helps keep our nation's airports and hotels safe begins to make its way further into American lives. The Freehold Borough School District launched this high-tech, high-wattage security system on Monday with funding from the Department of Justice as part of a study on the system's effectiveness. As many as four adults can be designated to pick up each child in the...
Treviglas Community College - in briefTreviglas Community College is a purpose-built 11-18 comprehensive college situated on the outskirts of Newquay in Cornwall, England, and serving more than 1,200 pupils from local villages and towns within a 15-mile radius. The college employs a total of 128 people including teachers, administrative and auxiliary staff. Treviglas – The growth story Opened in the early 1960s, Treviglas Community College has enjoyed continual expansion over th...
The ChallengeAs parents become increasingly concerned about the safety of their children, schools are turning to the latest in CCTV technology to help provide a watchful eye. When Burnage High School in Manchester was looking to upgrade its CCTV installation to a modern digital system, they consulted experts Security Management Plus for advice. Steve Clews at Security Management Plus said: "We've been involved in security in the education sector for nearly ten years and in that time w...
Texas A&M University is a land grant, sea-grant and space-grant institution located at college Station, Texas. The university's enrolment numbers approximately 44,000 students studying for degrees in 10 academic colleges. The school has a 5,200-acre campus among the largest in he nation with more than 100 buildings, a 324-acre research park and a campus value exceeding $1 billion. The Challenge For any university creating a safe environment, around the clock, for student...
Enhanced security in our nation's schools presents a set of challenges DVTeI is very familiar with: DVTel has more than 20 advanced network video installations at the high school and university level- Columbine and other violent school incidents changed everything. No longer ran a Superintendent or Principal be content with a few cameras recording to outdated VCR technology. The good news is that most school districts have IT or other personnel who are Familiar with lP network techno...
Gallaudet University is the world’s only university offering exemplary educational programs to deaf and hard of hearing students at all learning levels. Their programs span from serving infants and their parents and continue through middle and high school. Bachelor degrees are offered and undergraduate students also have the option of designing their own majors through a self-directed study program. Additionally, graduate programs and doctoral degrees are offered in a var...
The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is a comprehensive research base with its main efforts focused on high energy physics, R&D of advanced accelerator technologies, advanced synchrotron radiation technologies and applications. Taking advantage of the multi-disciplinary research, IHEP carries out the development of new technologies and high tech products with sophisticated science and technologies like radio frequency, UHV, microwave, preci...
Murcia University in southeast Spain, founded in 1915, is the tenth-oldest university in the country. And while history and tradition are important characteristics that define the institution, the latest technology systems are required to support the approximately 30,000 students enrolled each year. One such system is the fleet of buses that transports students around the university and between its two campuses. Challenge Murcia University’s bus fleet is owned and operated by Autocar...
The ChallengeA major university campus in London has invested in a significant overhaul of its security, centred around digital multiplexing technology from Dedicated Micros. The university has seven city centre sites spread over almost three miles. A growth in drug related crime in the nearby Kings Cross area prompted the university to reconsider its security arrangements in conjunction with IDS, specialists in digital CCTV technology. The Solution IDS considered a number of p...
The ChallengeThe University of Oxford Security Services department has invested in a major overhaul of its CCTV system and upgraded to a networked digital system controlled by Dedicated Micros multiplexers.Four BX2 multiplexers support 60 cameras, which have been upgraded to digital to keep a watchful eye on the University estate that includes some of Britain's most valued historic buildings and museums such as the Radcliffe Camera, Sheldonian Theatre and the Bodleian Library.Demands on the anal...
The ChallengeWhen Medway Borough Council was seeking a cost-effective way to monitor schools across the borough out-of-hours, they consulted CCTV experts TJW Electrical. An innovative solution was developed by TJW's IT consultant based on Dedicated Micros' DS2 multiplexers. Steve Craddock at TJW explains: "This installation would formerly have required setting up a bespoke network based on miles of fibre optic cabling, the costs of which would run into hundreds of thousands of pounds....
The ChallengeCambridge University's Wolfson College has completed a major upgrade of its campus security system. Dubbed 'the most cosmopolitan college in Cambridge', Wolfson was the first college to be established for both men and women. It has over 700 students, most of whom are post-graduate students with a focus on research and scholarship.Following a freak accident last summer when lightening struck at the heart of the previous surveillance system, the college was looking at more cost-...
Dortronics Systems, Inc. Provides University of Boston With Custom Solution For Dormitory Access System.The “Made in the USA” found on all Dortronics Systems, Inc. products confers more than just a country of origin or sense of national pride. To John FitzPatrick, Vice President of Dortronics Systems, Inc., it also means being able to bring quality commercial off-the-shelf or custom electromagnetic locking devices to market quickly using the in-house engineering expertise and p...
Internal CCTV cameras should be an essential feature in every school, according to the headteacher in charge of one of the country's newest comprehensives. Sheffield's King Ecgbert School has recently been relocated to new purpose-built premises and Head Teacher Bob Evans finds the Vista CCTV system to be invaluable. "As far as I'm concerned, it is not a luxury - it is an essential."There are two elements to the use of internal CCTV, he says. "It helps protect our pupi...
Newport City Council schools needed to find a way of reducing vandalism, which had become a common problem for many schools across the region.Under the Newport Community Safety Partnership initiative, the City Council, Gwent Police and private sector partners including Axis Communications put together a fully networked surveillance solution, which enabled monitoring of hotspots such as school roofs in the after hours.AXIS 2400 Video Servers were deployed to distribute video images from CCTV came...
The ChallengeUK Watch Ltd, Dudley, recommended Dedicated Micros popular digital product to replace the school's video recorder and matrix. The SolutionA 16-camera Digital Sprite with networking was installed and, by using the existing computer network, images can now be viewed from any networked PC around the school ensuring coverage in all areas. Dave Parker, managing director of UK Watch explains: "The school wanted to update its security to provide all round cover, but it had to be...
Founded in 1926, Mercyhurst College, named one of the “Best Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review, is a leading liberal arts college. Located in Erie, Pennsylvania, Mercyhurst’s 75-acre main campus has 50 buildings and supports over 3,500 students, faculty and staff. In 1991, the college purchased a 100-year-old seminary for a second campus called Mercyhurst North East. At that site, nestled in the bluffs just west of the New York state...
Treviglas Community College in Cornwall has saved thousands of pounds upgrading its surveillance systems by deploying Axis Communications Power over Ethernet-enabled (PoE) network cameras, as well as a range of other hardware from Axis. The upgrade followed an extensive review of the college’s ten year old, analogue-based CCTV system which revealed major shortcomings. A total of 18 new AXIS 211 Power over Ethernet Network Cameras and one new AXIS 2130 PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) Network Came...
IR illuminators and vari-focal lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being used to monitor child development at a clinic in Minneapolis.The University of Minnesota is internationally respected for its childcare work, which includes analysis of cognitive development and reactions to visual stimuli in the young, particularly infants with attention deficit disorders.For the analysis to be valid the youngsters need to concentrate fully on what is presented to them from a computer screen and staff have create...
