Education security applications - Case studies
Having supplied many schools, colleges and universities with a wide range of access control solutions, TDSi has developed particular expertise in the integration of access control and proprietary management information systems (MISs). Schools are increasingly incorporating sophisticated management systems covering enrollment, attendance records and academic performance. Such packages form an integral part of timetable planning and the development of curriculum courses, as well as linking...
The Challenge The 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 Theater and the Bodleian Library. Demands on th...
"Milestone is still so easy to use, even with upgrades: we put up a new server, installed the software, loaded the DLK, and we were done. I don't see how it could get any easier." - Steve Dickerson, Manager of Academic Computing at Wichita State University in Kansas Challenges: An old VCR tape surveillance system functioned very poorly and was time consuming. The Wichita State University Main Campus has two computer labs with 75 workstations, generally open till 10 pm. 9...
The University of Manchester has recently completed upgrading its entrance security with Fastlane plus barrier arm turnstiles from Integrated Design Ltd. The University of Manchester is Britain's largest single-site university, situated in the heart of the city with over 5,000 staff and 35,000 students to keep secure.The University had originally installed Fastlane plus R200 AS barrier arm turnstiles, the first generation of the Fastlane plus range, over five years ago. With thi...
With a new academic year starting, the demand for ID cards in the UK is set to reach its highest point, says leading distributor ADI-GARDINER, who supplies the Magicard range of secure ID card printers and accessories from Ultra Electronics - one of the world's leading manufacturers since 1993.Magicard printers are used in a wide variety of portrait ID and Access Control applications, and incorporate innovative HoloKote anti-counterfeiting technology, which prints a transparent watermark across...
Europe-wide usage of varifocal lenses from SENKOADL includes a recent project at a leading university in Poland.The University of Lodz to the south-west of Warsaw has increased campus security with the installation of 50 cameras - predominantly Samsung and Bosch - fitted with 3-8.55mm lenses from SENKOADL.A major textile town dubbed the Manchester of Eastern Europe, Lodz has a student population of 42,000 whose safety on campus has been improved by local distributor and systems consultant A...
Built in 1912, TianJin Polytechnic University is a well established full-time tertiary educational institution in China with 14 colleges, about 25,000 students, and 1300 lecturers and tutors. The University has a spacious and harmonious campus equipped with top-notch educational equipments and is further expanding and constructing a new campus session of around two million square metres. Saving resource and energy, improving management efficiency and providing a comfortable learning enviro...
Livestock Poultry Health Program upgrades security and productivity Brivo Systems, LLC, the leader in web applications for access control and security systems, announces that Clemson University's Livestock Poultry Health Programs in Columbia, SC, has installed Brivo's ACS WebService to ensure full access control of their facility. The Livestock Poultry Health facility houses four agricultural departments and sees upwards of 200 staff and visitors a day. ADT Security Systems of Colum...
Sophisticated technology from Bosch Security Systems (BSS) is playing a central role in a major new CCTV installation by CDS (Computerised & Digital Security Systems) at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, as it migrates its existing analog CCTV system over to IP.The system, specified by the University in conjunction with specialist consultants Global MSC Security, is an entirely Bosch-based solution comprising primarily fully-functional high-speed domes and associated transmission and digit...
With the safety of students a primary concern at schools across the United States, administrators are faced with the task of finding security tools that fit within their ever-thinning budgets while helping them increase efficiencies. At Charlotte Country Day School in Charlotte, N.C., information systems personnel enhanced the school's security, increased efficiencies and provided a platform for further technological sophistication in the years ahead simply by upgrading the school's person...
The new buildings that house the City of London Academy are truly impressive. Built with a contribution of £2 million from the City of London Corporation, the teaching facilities, assembly rooms, sports halls, dance and drama studios, dining rooms and teachers' accommodation are all fully equipped with the very latest equipment and technology. As a publicly funded independent comprehensive school, the objective of the Academy is to provide high quality education for u...
The HTW Chur is the only college in the Canton of Grisons (Switzerland) at which it is possible to study economics and technology. The college specializes in the fields of tourism, entrepreneurship, telecommunications, electrical engineering, building, design and information science. With the contactless LEGIC smart card for students, professors, employees, guests and visitors, the HTW Chur is emphasizing its innovation and securing its reputation for being up to date. It is possibl...
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 lightning struck at the heart of the previous surveillance system, the college was looking at more cost-e...
Knowsley Community College recently completed deployment of 263 Axis network cameras across its two main campuses in Roby and Kirkby, near Liverpool. The total contract was valued at approximately £450,000. MCW Group won a competitive tender to supply and install these cameras, integrating them back into the campus-wide network and configuring Milestone XProtect system to manage output from the cameras. This will also safeguard the new Management and Industrial Innovation Cent...
Access control specialist, TDSi, has developed a security integration module specifically to interface TDSi eXguard PRO access management software with School Information Management System (SIMS) from Capita. Such packages are increasingly being used in education to help establishments manage their student enrollment data, attendance records and academic performance more effectively. They also play an important role in the planning of timetables and curriculum courses, as well as in the m...
Bosch Security Systems, the UK's leading provider of high-quality security solutions, has supplied its proven EnviroDome cameras and its VIDOS Video Management System for an integrated CCTV system at Beardwood High School in Blackburn. Disruption to education is an ongoing and significant problem for schools across the UK but when Beardwood School, which is responsible for educating some 1,100 students, was experiencing disruptions from children setting off fire alarms during school time it deci...
Rifatron's digital recorder creates a safe and secure campus Rifatron's hexa-plex digital video recorder (DVR) has been chosen by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) as the recording system to provide a safe and secure environment for students, faculty, staff and campus visitors. The hexa-plexer is a Rifatron stand-alone DVR with 6 simultaneous operations: live display, recording, playback, network monitoring, back-up, remote data set-up. The 16 channel iMDVRS-1648 has up to 400...
DVRs used to record interviews of suspects and victims Heightened concerns over the safety of police officers and the need to defend officers against false allegations provided the impetus for Jacksonville State University (JSU) in Alabama to acquire March Networks video surveillance technology. With little more than hand-held audio tape recorders at their disposal, police officers were previously unable to record facial expressions and non-verbal behavior that could provide context for statem...
Approximately 260 cameras were installed as a campus security threat deterrent across the entire district, Axis Communications recently announced that the company's network cameras have been installed by Middletown City Schools in Orange County, N.Y. Approximately 260 cameras were installed as a campus security threat deterrent across the entire district, including seven educational buildings and two administrative buildings.All of the cameras are installed in public...
Bosch Security Systems, the UK's leading provider of high-quality security solutions, has supplied its proven EnviroDome cameras and its VIDOS Video Management System for an integrated CCTV system at Beardwood High School in Blackburn. Disruption to education is an ongoing and significant problem for schools across the UK but when Beardwood School, which is responsible for educating some 1,100 students, was experiencing disruptions from children setting off fire alarms during school time it deci...
Technion University's school security program uses ioimage intelligent-video for protection from attacks and more The Technion Israel Institute of Technology is the oldest university in Israel. Founded 1924 the university campus is located in Haifa's Neve Sha'anan neighborhood on Mount Carmel.This post secondary school encompasses 1,325,000 square meters, which includes approximately 85 buildings. The university's landscape and terrain presents several security challenges. The securi...
Frontline Security Solutions has helped a leading Surrey school install a high specification CCTV system boasting 44 camerasSunbury Manor School has 1070 pupils and shares its grounds with a local leisure centre. Frontline Security Solutions was awarded a contract to design and install a CCTV system that would take advantage of the latest technology. As part of that process, Frontline carried out a full site survey and then conducted a product evaluation session for the school, which...
The new buildings that house the City of London Academy are truly impressive. Built with a contribution of £2 million from the City of London Corporation, the teaching facilities, assembly rooms, sports halls, dance and drama studios, dining rooms and teachers' accommodation are all fully equipped with the very latest equipment and technology.As a publicly funded independent comprehensive school, the objective of the Academy is to provide high quality education for up to 1200 st...
Palm vein biometric authentication replaces canteen cash payment at Todholm Primary School in Scotland as part of a government project Yarg Biometrics Ltd, and Fujitsu Europe Limited today announced their plans to work together to develop a pioneering biometric identification system for schools, based on palm vein authentication technology known as PalmSecureTM from Fujitsu. Yarg and Fujitsu have implemented the technology at Todholm Primary School in Paisley, Scotland. The palm vein-based...
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama has invested in a new access control system to ensure that all its staff and students can work in a safe and secure environment.The school commissioned system integration specialists, Frontline Security Solutions to install the new system manufactured by TDSi. The requirement was to replace an existing outdated access control system with one that could identify and record as well as control who has access to any or all of five separate sites.Situat...
Herries Preparatory School in Cookham Dean, Berkshire has utilised an AXIS 214 PTZ Network Camera from the global leader in network video, Axis Communications, to help its pupils further develop their renowned studies on the habitat of the stag beetle.Herries School teaches around a hundred children up to the age of 11. In 2002, their science co-ordinator Anne Sweeney was looking for ways to bring to life the teaching of conservation for her Year Four pupils (aged 8-9). Rather than s...
The University of Reading's Department of Meteorology has deployed an AXIS 232D Dome Network Camera from the global leader in network video, Axis Communications, to support its meteorology degree students as they learn to predict weather patterns through studies of atmospheric sciences. The University of Reading's Department of Meteorology is internationally recognized as a world leading centre of excellence for the teaching and research of the science of the atmosphere and oceans, including wea...
Lenel Systems International announced today that it has donated an OnGuard® identity and security management system, as well as supplies, services and personnel for the 2006 Little League Baseball World Series. Lenel, a global leader in the development of integrated security management solutions, is part of UTC Fire & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. This is the ninth consecutive year that Lenel has contributed its technology and expertise to the international youth a...
Network Security stamps out vandalism in Newport Schools Mission Newport City Council schools needed to find a way of reducing vandalism that had become a common problem for many more schools across the region. Solution The Newport Community Safety Partnership initiative, created a fully networked surveillance solution, which enabled monitoring of hotspots after hours. AXIS 2400 Video Servers were deployed to distribute video from CCTV cameras onto the network. The entire solution...
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 center 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 SolutionIDS considered a number of potentia...
