Creating a welcoming and nurturing learning environment for students is essential to improving outcomes in K-12 schools and on higher education campuses. Maintaining safety and security while keeping schools and college and university campuses easily accessible to students, teachers, and staff is an ongoing challenge for administrators. Risks to school property and student safety are constantly evolving, ranging from vandalism and theft to violence among students or from external threats. AI-enabled video security solutions help to mitigate risks, maximize the safety of school buildings and grounds, and improve emergency preparedness when monitoring, identifying, and responding to threats.
Reduce theft and vandalism on school property or across campuses without increasing staff workloads
Detect threats earlier to enable faster responses to potential risks while enhancing campus safety
Streamline operations across educational institution buildings and grounds and speed event investigations
IQSIGHT offers flexible and scalable solutions for video surveillance that can supplement current technology, maximizing existing investments, or be part of new installations, providing a complete solution that boosts visibility. Our AI-enabled video security solutions help schools and campuses address challenges ranging from the detection of guns to the security of athletic fields, and much more.
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.
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.
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.
When it comes to school security, smart cameras with high-quality imaging capabilities are critical. Based on deep learning, video analytics support reliable intrusion detection and accurate people counting in crowded areas, especially in and around buildings. It can monitor spaces other safety technologies miss, such as exterior grounds and parking lots.
Get precise insights of vehicles and people in the vicinity of the building while ignoring false positives such as shadows, small animals, and window reflections. It’s plug and play because no onsite calibration is required.
Define virtual zones to get instant alerts in case of intrusion detection, loitering or line crossing.
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.
To increase efficiency, precise counting in crowded areas allow for preemptive staffing to provide meals faster to students and giving them enough time to finish before their next class, which can help improve learning.
Precise counting statistics help manage the flow of students entering and exiting schools and gathering areas such as bathrooms and hallways to effectively pre-empt a fight or other harmful behavior like vaping or drug use. Using data to identify patterns and understanding them can help you break up a gathering before it gets out of hand. We can apply the same analytics to identify gatherings at unauthorized areas or doors that are off limits during day.
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.
Security cameras for schools
Education environments throughout the world have chosen to install our school security cameras and complete video system solutions to deliver the right levels of performance for their environments. Our latest generation of AI-enabled video security cameras, including fixed dome, pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ), and bullet cameras, deliver actionable insights to improve security and streamline operations.
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Business Development Manager – Education, North America
Craig Oberschlake is a Business Development Manager focusing on education and state and local governments for Bosch Security and Safety Systems in North America. Prior to joining Bosch, Craig held a director of security in North America position for a global manufacturing company. Earlier in life, Craig served honorably in the United States Air Force for 11 years before transitioning into law enforcement with the City of Hoover, Alabama Police Department. During his time in law enforcement, he served the community as a Patrol Officer, Detective, and School Resource Officer.
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The Palmyra-Macedon (Pal-Mac) Central School District covers 48.5 square miles in western New York. The district encompasses two elementary schools, with an Intermediate School in Macedon and a Primary School in the Village of Palmyra, and a District Campus consisting of the Middle School and High School.
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD (GCISD) is a K-12 public school system in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex that is committed to educational excellence, a rigorous curriculum, and bold, innovative approaches to teaching and learning. The district encompasses 11 elementary schools, 4 middle schools, 3 high schools, and 2 alternative schools.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools is a school district in southwest Tennessee with over 180 buildings and more than 100,000 students. The implementation of AI-driven Video Analytics has significantly improved school safety for students, staff, and parents.
St. Louis Community College (STLCC) has served more than 1.3 million students since 1962. With four campuses and two education centers, STLCC is located strategically across the region. The college is committed to creating accessible education for every resident in its 718-square-mile district.