School, University, or College Security Challenges:
No longer can educational institutions ignore security issues. An incident can mean negative publicity, decreased enrollment, and expensive lawsuits. Using SCW’s high definition security cameras, access control systems, and software can reduce these security incidents, reduce truancy, vandalism, and bullying, enable faster response times, and harden your cyber security posture.
Educational Facilities Operational Challenges:
School administrators need to know that each member of their team has real time insight into their operational environments. This means that the safety team needs to see surveillance video along side attendance and scheduling information, while the facilities team needs see surveillance video and make sure that the fridges and server closets aren't overheating.
Don't worry, we've got you covered. If it can be displayed on a computer screen or digital television, we can record it and display it on your viewing stations.
(A SwiftSensors integration for temperature tracking is shown in the bottom right of this image, while a Teachmint dashboard is shown on the top right, but we can do this for any application interface).
Key Benefits for SCW Education Clients
Lockdown your property
Administrators can remotely lock down their institution in a variety of emergencies, including active shooter, natural disasters, and unsolicited visitor situations. more info
Watch your Perimeter
Long range cameras enable you to detect unwanted or unknown individuals before they cause an incident, as well as reduce truancy and vandalism. more info
Detect Weapons
Security operators can be alerted to the presence of weaponry and act before a threat becomes an incident. more info
Visitor Management Integration
Our access control systems easily integrate with Proxyclick, Envoy, Splan, and Lobbytrack. So, it is easy to manage your temporary visitor credentials.
Easily Share with First Responders
With other systems, sharing a video in an emergency can be nearly impossible. With Survail, it is easy to get first responders incident information in real time. more info
Keep Track of Incident Reports
Solve your evidence tracking and chain of custody problems by utilizing survail vault cloud storage and incident reporting tools. learn more
Restrict Access to Authorized Personnel
Easy to use and touch-free mobile access for all campus buildings, keeps you safe and gives you an audit trail and attendance tracking. learn more
Improve Network Cyber Security
Our cloud based platforms increase your cyber security posture and make your security systems easier to manage.
Layered Security
Good security has multiple layers that solve different and usually escalating needs. Different incidents have different levels of risk and more severe threats should trigger multiple systems.
We recognize that each educational institution faces unique security threats, challenges, objectives, and requirements. By leveraging cutting-edge campus security technology, we excel in designing and installing school security systems. Our experience working with prestigious institutions like Harvard and Purdue has equipped us to effectively protect faculty, students, and visitors.
Truancy / Loitering
- Cameras strategically placed in stairways help prevent and alert your security teams to truancy, overnight loitering, smoking, vaping, and student-on-student violence.
- The blue zones indicate the views of strategically places fixed lens wide angle cameras.
Liability Risk Reduction
- Areas where performances, competitions, or other physical activities take place have increased risks of injury. By placing cameras in these areas, you can help enforce safety standards and eliminate legal risk related to false claims of negligence.
- The blue zones indicate the views of strategically places fixed lens wide angle cameras.
- The pink zones indicate the views of strategically places varifocal zoom lens cameras.
Unauthorized Access
- Electronic door locks and bluetooth readers allow you to control access to sensitive areas containing medical supplies, electronic or printed records, security operations centers, or networking equipment.
- These same items on your main points of entry and egress allow you to securely lock down your facility during the times when your campus is closed.
Intrusion
- Cameras strategically placed in outdoors in areas with entry points, such as doors and windows, can alert your security teams to truancy, loitering, unwelcome individuals, and unauthorized access.
- The blue zones indicate the views of strategically places fixed lens wide angle cameras.
- Long range camera are often also deployed to watch remote assets like gates, parking lots, ancillary structures, or are where there are outdoor activities
In Case of Emergency: Lockdown
- Administrators can remotely lock down their institution in a variety of emergencies, including active shooter, natural disasters, and unsolicited visitor situations.
- Lockdown plans can be initiated or reverted at any time from anywhere by administrators
- There’s no limit to how many Lockdown plans can be instituted.
- Different scenarios dictate different lockdown procedures and are able to be customized. For example, a lockdown plan for a suspicious packages might only locks down entries near the delivery door/area. Active shooter plans usually lock down all school room doors to keep assailants from kids while also opening all main entrances to allow first responders to enter. Natural disaster or fire emergency plans may require opening all doors.
Hall Monitoring
- Hallways can often be the location of bullying, truancy, or even active shooter events.
- Monitoring your hallways is a must.
- The blue zones indicate the views of strategically places varifocal lens, longer range, ceiling mounted dome cameras.
Modern Hardware & Software Solutions For Educational Institutions
Below is the security technology needed to secure educational facility. Our commercial-grade security products, including vandal-proof security cameras and school access control systems, cater to schools of all sizes, ensuring comprehensive protection.
School Security Services
Many schools choose to layer on additional services to help with maintenance and operations. We take an end-to-end approach to school security (rather than just looking at college CCTV) from design, installation to professional monitoring - Our dedicated, US-based support teams provide lifelong assistance to ensure ongoing safety.
Resources for Schools
Educational Facility security is a challenge--multiple buildings, multiple points of entry, sizable student body, numerable classrooms, parking lots, and sprawling campuses.
SCW makes it possible to bring all the moving parts together under one umbrella.
Here are some case studies, guides, and videos that help you make the right choice.
Get in TouchCase Study #1
Richmond County School District discussed how improved resolution increased campus visibility and decreased injuries and disciplinary issues at 16 separate campuses.
Coverage Map
Need inspiration? Check our this Sample Security Camera System Coverage Map for a small private school.
Guide: NDAA
All SCW camera are compliant with the National Defense Authorization Act. In this NDAA guide, we talk about what the NDAA regulations mean to the security industry.
Video: Success Story
Michael, the Assistant Director of Public Safety, from Warren Wilson College gives a video testimonial about working with SCW from consultation, site visits, to installation.
Webinar: School Security Improvements
In this webinar, we dive into best practices and solutions for enhancing the safety of educational institutions.
Case Study #2
Del Norte County School District needed to modernize their security cameras with a dual retention backup policy at 12 separate campuses to help protect students, staff, and faculty.
Best Practice Guide: Security Systems for Schools
Best practices for designing and maintaining a comprehensive school security system that helps provide a safe and secure learning environment
Video: Roundtable Discussion
In this episode of "In the Trenches: Roundtable," we discuss the unique installation challenges for multi-location institution security.
Video: Roundtable Discussion
In this episode of "In the Trenches: Roundtable," we discuss Patrols, Presets, Auto-Tracking, and Other PTZ Functions.
Video: Roundtable Discussion
In this episode of "In the Trenches: Roundtable," we discuss RAID for security camera systems.
Choose SCW
We have the history and expertise your school district needs.
For Your IT Team
- Openpath Access Control System is a simple retrofit installation that is easily programmable and maintenance-free.
- SCW cameras are a single cable plug-and-play item that can stretch up tp 750 feet in you combine them with one of our extended transmission POE Switches.
- Both the Survail and Openpath Platforms include free and ongoing training and support. You don't have to do this.
- The Survail Platforms include one-on-one onboarding of devices, networks, and users, before we even ship it to you. There's no complicated setup process.
- The Survail Platform has integrated VLANs and VPNs which reduce network complexity and reduce the IT time spent on device management and securing remote access, when compared to on-premises NVR-based systems.
- The Survail and Openpath platforms Increase your company’s cybersecurity posture and decrease your cyber threat footprint, when compared to non-cloud, on-premesis systems.
- Every camera on one manufacturer-agnostic platform makes employee training infinitely simpler. The UI is so easy to use that other teams don't have to bother IT with every footage request.
- The ready availability of our on-call technical experts means total support for the life of your new system.
- Our platforms use encryption, inbound connection refusal, automatic software updates, and cloud-based management so your physical security devices are not compromising your cyber security initiatives.
- VPN, MFA, SOC/SIEM, and Endpoint management services also availible, if you want to give the rest of the items on your network the same sort of cyber and network security protects that are built into our platforms.
For Your Chief Security Officers
- Both the Survail and Openpath Platforms include free and ongoing training and support.
- Imagine no more need to stare at a screen of security cameras all day! Every camera in your system--without limit--is being analyzed to identify what matters to you most.
- SCW AI-powered analytics software does all the watching for you. The AI-Powered Analytics distinguish individuals and vehicles in an evolving, learning process.
- In less than a second, recognize a potential threat incident and notify pre-selected personnel and first responders by text message, email alert, or automatic phone call.
- All notifications are in real-time. No more valuable minutes are lost. Immediate alerts profoundly alter outcomes.
- Every camera can filter by person, vehicle, camera, date, or time, which means no more endless searching for pertinent footage.
- The AI-Analytics proactively eliminate false positive events and reduce your huge number of current email alerts.
For Your Administrators
- The secure cloud-based Survail and Openpath platforms offer a lower total-cost-of-ownership by removing the requirements that your IT team worry about enabling and securing remote access to your on-premises hardware and network.
- SCW offers the benefits you want - a system that keeps your educational facility secure without further involvement on from administrators or constant budget expansions.
- Our professional-grade equipment is rugged and performance-driven. Our sophisticated technology is both simple to install and maintain.
- Each component comes with 3 to 5 year warranties and is backed by the support of our US-based technical staff for the lifetime of your security system.
- Our AI-Powered Analytics and easy to use reporting and retention tools mean that you won't have to hire additional staff to manage your system.
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Invest In The Best
The continual safety of your students and staff is vital. SCW can protect them while providing money-saving time and benefits. And your IT and Security personnel will love our US-based technical support. It comes FREE. Forever. Our promise of world-class customer service and technical support is central to providing you with the best security available, anywhere.