K-12 & HIGHER EDUCATION
School safety and security has reached a high-profile level with the increased frequency of violence and death at schools, colleges, and universities across the country. Crisis planning, security assessment, and emergency preparedness are all critical to the success of the mission, which is to provide a secure learning environment for students and staff alike.
Customer Stories
The University of Massachusetts
The University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., (UMass Amherst) located in the Pioneer Valley maintains a sharp focus on security and safety of the campus population of more than 32,000 and has been executing a strategic shift from analog to IP video, integrated with access control and intrusion detection.
St. Judes
The current building stands in a central location in Havre, after the facility was moved in 1914 and rebuilt again in 1924.
It was during this time, in 1916, that St. Jude’s opened St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic School with a small enrollment of 100 students. The school has now started its 105th year with more than 150 students ranging from pre-school to eighth grade and offers extended care before and after hours.
University Of Kentucky
The largest university in the Commonwealth of Kentucky has significantly raised its situational awareness with Salient’s CompleteView video management platform. The Video Management System (VMS) provides the University of Kentucky Police Department the tools it needs to quickly and efficiently respond to security events anywhere on its campus, keeping students, faculty and staff safer than ever.
Garfield Public Schools
Garfield staff has taken security at its facilities to a higher-quality level. Dave Koptyra, director of security at GPS, monitors and plans the security for 5,300 students who fill 14 schools as well as two administrative centers.
“We have a mixed security solution in place right now.’ Koptyra said. “We are moving everything to IP network cameras and we are building a backbone to hold all the IP cameras we’re installing. We will have more than 400 cameras when we’re done:’
Resources
2023 Security Trends: What to expect in the year ahead
Innovation is expected to continue at a rapid pace in 2023, thanks in part to the residual effects of the pandemic which has driven changes that might have otherwise taken
Emergent Security Threats and Soft Target Hardening
This fast-paced briefing provides up-to-the-minute information on emergent threats to leaders, managers, operators, and analysts to better assess vulnerabilities and develop a targeted security plan for their facilities and event
Leading in Turbulent Times: Effective Campus Public Safety Leadership for the 21st Century
This free webcast will discuss how campus public safety leaders can effectively incorporate these and many other additional responsibilities into their roles and develop the necessary skills to successfully lead
Utah’s Granite School District standardizes on Salient Systems to protect one of country’s largest districts
AUSTIN, Texas – December 8, 2022— Salient Systems, a leader in open architecture video management systems, has announced that Granite School District, one of the largest school districts in the
How Collaboration Fuels VMS Innovation
Originally published in SDM Magazine | Anna Boudinot November 18, 2022 – How are end users’ needs driving VMS development and deployment? Last year we posited that 2022 would be the year of the
Product Spotlight On Security Analytics
Originally published in Security Magazine | Maria Henriquez November 18, 2022 – Security analytics can help security professionals not only improve risk mitigation, but also inform decision-making. Security magazine highlights a few security analytics
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