Overview
Designing, implementing and managing smart and safe spaces in environments such as universities, school districts, corporate and medical parks, and entertainment or retail complexes, begins with solid foundations in IT infrastructure. These campus environments are a diverse assortment of buildings, facilities, systems and grounds often situated on multiple acres, which presents unique challenges to security managers and IT teams. To overcome these challenges, organizations must design, specify and deploy a robust, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective security system that provides loss prevention
measures and enhanced protection capabilities for its visitors, employees, and students.
In modern campus environments, multiple security and integrated applications are deployed to ensure compliance, mitigate risk, prevent loss, protect the safety of people and ensure the security of its assets. Video cameras monitor daily activity, record incidents, and can serve as a general deterrent to suspicious or malicious behavior. Video management systems collect, record and provide access to video from cameras and other sources like access control systems, which prevent unauthorized intruders, while analytics applications aid in providing enhanced situational awareness, recorded video analysis, and unique services to further improve overall security and operational efficiency. An infrastructure that can support these diverse systems on a single platform, while balancing the demands for 24x7x365 mission-critical surveillance operations and IT cost efficiency is essential to maintaining safer, smarter campus environments