School Security and Campus Surveillance Systems

Our AI-driven visual gun detection technology is designed to automatically detect individuals brandishing a gun while approaching a school entrance. If a gun is detected, this security camera-based technology promptly alerts personnel who can verify the gun and take proactive measures.

If a gun is not visually detected before discharge, camera-based audio AI is designed to detect and classify gunshots while estimating the direction from which the sound originates. This capability may enable quick and appropriate responses.

These AI technologies can operate independently or are compatible with other systems, like existing video, access control, and public address systems. Integration paths enable additional responses by human verification, locking doors, initiating automated public address and two-way radio announcements, and more.

Minimizing false alarms is a crucial concern of school security professionals. Our cloud-based AI alarm verification service adds a second pair of eyes to verify questionable alerts, operating like instant replay technology in football games. Acting as a referee, the service works continuously, verifying every alarm on the edge. It is designed to confirm potential threats and rescind or escalate alarms quickly, driving false alarms to near zero. As an add-on service, it pairs seamlessly with our Gun Detection System, creating a hybrid solution unlike other systems requiring a cloud connection. Rest assured, unverified camera alarms may automatically escalate to our edge verification system if a network connection is unavailable. Available now with Milestone XProtect®.

Access control systems with programmable threat levels ensure that users can quickly initiate safety measures or restrictions in critical situations to improve emergency response. They can quickly fortify buildings or areas by unlocking or locking all doors or opening some while locking others.

Inaudible announcements during an emergency can create panic. When a critical event occurs, school or campus personnel can help facilitate an accurate response by using our public address system to play clear pre-recorded messages to ensure evacuation or shelter-in-place instructions are easily understood.

Sense and alert to suspicious behavior to deter crimes or other severe situations before they become a problem. Intelligent security cameras help detect unsafe behavior or actions that may indicate an unwanted event is about to occur. With built-in video analytics, the cameras can alert staff about crowd formations or persons lying on the ground. The cameras can also detect and notify to health and safety issues, such as blocked emergency exits.

Sense and engage with persons in restricted outdoor areas, such as athletic fields, when the facility is closed. Cameras with built-in video analytics will detect a person and trigger a moving camera to pan, tilt, and zoom to the location and track the person’s movements. Simultaneously, the detection can turn on the pan, tilt, zoom (PTZ) camera’s white light illuminator and trigger a loudspeaker to play an automated message, informing the person that they are under surveillance. This automated solution helps prevent damage or theft.

Fortify buildings by keeping exterior doors locked while allowing for easy exit for recess, dismissal, and emergency events. Access control systems ensure that all exterior doors remain locked from the outside, while request-to-exit detectors inside the building ensure that doors unlock for safe and easy egress.

Cameras with built-in video analytics act as sensors that reliably detect a person attempting to gain access or loitering near doors other than the main entrance, triggering an alert to administrators or resource officers. At the same time, an IP-based horn loudspeaker integrated with the video system automatically plays an audible message to engage the individual and inform them that their actions are being monitored. A warning message can also broadcast over security personnel’s two-way radios.

Monitor doors while school is in session or campus buildings are accessible to ensure they are not propped open for unauthorized entry. By integrating our intrusion and video systems, a door left open for longer than a pre-defined time can initiate a text alert to facilities personnel while displaying video of the door from a nearby surveillance camera on the appropriate staff member’s workstation or mobile device.

Remote command and control of a building’s security system via a mobile app provides administrators or school resource officers with the ability to arm or disarm the system, lock or unlock doors, or view live video from cameras when offsite.

It can take hours to search through recorded video to locate and evaluate events after an incident.

Cameras with built-in intelligence enable fast searches by recording metadata of objects within, entering, or leaving an area, and storing it with the video images. By defining parameters, such as a person in a red shirt, people loitering, or vehicles waiting longer than expected, administrators or school resource officers can narrow their searches to relevant incidents – helping to locate video of an incident within minutes for a much faster response.

Reduce congestion during drop-off and pick-up periods at schools. Our cameras equipped with AI-driven analytics alert to unauthorized vehicles parked in the bus loop or fire lane to prevent loading time delays or students arriving late to class. The cameras can also capture data on school traffic patterns to support decisions to improve flow.

Monitor emergency exits with the intrusion system to ensure use only when necessary. Unauthorized use of these exits can trigger local sounders to alert staff that someone has left the building. Integration with the surveillance system ensures that video from a nearby camera displays on staff workstations for improved situational awareness of the event.