School security - Case studies
ADT state-of-the-art security system gives retailers and visitors to a new South London shopping centre peace of mindThe ChallengeCroydon Centrale is a £200 million retail centre with 74,000 square metres of shopping featuring some of the UK's leading fashion and lifestyle stores and a 950-space shoppers' car park.International property development and investment company St Martins Property Corporation - owners of the old Drummond Centre - redeveloped and extended the site to provi...
BackgroundHeart FM is one of the Midlands' most popular commercial radio stations. From its studios in a courtyard just off Birmingham's busy Broad Street, it serves a weekly audience of some 778,000 listeners across Warwickshire and the West Midlands, with a core target audience of 25 - 44 year olds.Like all media outlets, it needs to have tight security - especially due to its central location, which offers an open face to the public. This makes strictly controlling access to all,...
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...
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 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 chosen system needed the ability to support multiple technologies and extensive integration. A university on a mission: to amalgamate data sources and centralize information management. Cardax FT will be the system that does it.Cardax FT: the platform for rationalising a series of disparate systems across a 270 acre campus."We needed a system that had the potential to do everything," explains Jonathan Richardson. Cardax FT now acts as the core management system.Seven di...
