Eighteen cameras, and not one trench.
A high school needed to reduce violence, weapons and vandalism on campus — on a budget that had stopped schools like it installing anything at all, and without tearing up the site.
The problem.
Schools face the hardest version of this problem: the consequences of an incident are severe, and the budget for a conventional surveillance installation usually is not there. This campus also could not be dug up or drilled through to run cable.
The deployment.
Eighteen IP cameras were placed around the campus with no drilling or trenching. Security staff were given a mobile view so they were not tied to a monitor. A plate recognition system logged every vehicle entering and leaving. Door sensors, window sensors and laser PIR detectors were tied into the same system through dry-contact inputs.
The result.
A scalable system that gave parents, students and staff a further layer of security without the capital cost that had previously ruled it out — and, because vehicles were logged by plate, a record of who had been on site.
That combination is what a modern install looks like on one PC: see schools and campuses, plate recognition and access control through camera inputs and outputs.
This case study is also available as the original PDF.
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One camera is free for life, and it is the complete program — plate recognition, QR reading and access control included.
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