Campus Safety is pleased to recognize the winners of the 2023 Best Electronic Systems Technologies (BEST) awards. Now in its eighth year, the program honors superior security, law enforcement, emergency management, and life safety products and services for healthcare, higher education, and K-12 campus protection professionals. The winners were announced Wednesday at Campus Safety Conference Texas in Dallas.
The judges for this year’s BEST entries were:
- Paul Boucherle, CPP, CSC, Matterhorn Consulting LLC
- Robin Hattersley, Editor-in-Chief, Campus Safety
- Kirk MacDowell, President, MacGuard Security Advisors Inc.
- Amy Rock, Executive Editor, Campus Safety
As with any solution, before you buy, be sure to do your homework. Consult with an electronic security contractor or qualified consultant so they can guide you in selecting the right solution for your campus. This list of winners that follows, however, can help you with your due diligence.
Click on the links below to learn about each BEST product winner or just check out our photo gallery!
Access Control/Key Management/Locks: UnityIS by IMRON Corp.
IMRON Corporation, celebrating 25 years, leads with the flagship product, UnityIS. With UnityIS, deploy fully scalable physical security management using the open hardware platforms available today. With a simple subscription model, no upfront license fees, unlimited access, and no software to load, you can stay focused on your business. imron.com
Access Control/ Panic Alarms/ID Badging/Visitor Management: Visitor Aware by Singlewire Software
Protect your most valuable assets with Singlewire Software’s visitor management system Visitor Aware. Verify guests instantly, account for people during crises, and take comfort in seamless reunifications after critical events. This comprehensive tool eliminates the stress of unexpected incidents with its highly-developed and adaptive functions requiring minimal additional investments. singlewire.com
System Surveyor is a secure, cloud-based platform that securely houses campus’ physical security, IT and technology assets in one place. With drag-and-drop simplicity, System Surveyor equips campus safety and security personnel to engage with stakeholders and manage security projects for a single campus to an entire school district. systemsurveyor.com
The new SDS Emergency Response Service improves emergency response times by sending gunshot alerts directly to the ANI/ALI 911. Using Noonlight’s SendPolice platform, 911 operators are automatically provided with real-time updates on active shooter events, including shooter location and number of shots fired, increasing the situational awareness of responding officers. shooterdetectionsystems.com
The i-PRO Multi-directional + PTZ camera is the smallest and lightest outdoor rated camera of its kind. It features powerful edge AI capabilities, advanced cybersecurity, and vandal resistance for the widest deployment options. Support for up to five sensors with 5MP multi-sensors and a 2MP auto-tracking PTZ with 21x zoom. i-pro.com
Utilizing advanced AI and predictive analytics, Intellicene’s Symphia solutions can help anticipate, prevent and mitigate threats across industries. Our robust, open and scalable solutions are unified with advanced intelligence, transforming the standard security operations center (SOC) to an intelligent SOC. intellicene.com
A lockdown and emergency response system purposely built with schools in mind. With a single button push, lockdown protocols are initiated and immediate alerts are sent to police providing superior incident awareness with live video, voice, text, and GPS location data from areas where traditional video cameras cannot be deployed. ipvideocorp.com
Eliminate school movement silos by integrating visitor, volunteer and emergency management and silent panic buttons into a single platform. This helps to ensure real-time, whole-campus oversight and accountability and improves communication pathways, including those pathways used for reunification during a crisis. navigate360.com
Emergency Communications/Personal Safety Apps: CATIE Mobile by Status Solutions
CATIE Mobile is a customizable comprehensive crisis management, communication, and personal safety application designed to empower schools with complete control during drills and emergencies. Its primary purpose is to ensure communication, location, and the well-being of individuals within the school environment, and to help ensure continual improvement with post-event analysis. statussolutions.com
Emergency Communications/Safety & Security Apps: 911Inform
911inform empowers first responders with critical information and emergency communication tools, streamlining emergency response, increasing situational awareness, and saving lives. The solution provides full Kari’s Law and RAY BAUM’S Act compliance for in-building as well as remote workers across multiple platforms and devices with a flexible, customizable emergency response solution. 911inform.com
Incident Management and Response/Communication Products (TIE): 911Inform
911inform empowers first responders with critical information and emergency communication tools, streamlining emergency response, increasing situational awareness, and saving lives. The solution provides full Kari’s Law and RAY BAUM’S Act compliance for in-building as well as remote workers across multiple platforms and devices with a flexible, customizable emergency response solution. 911inform.com
Incident Management and Response/Communication Products (TIE): Intrado Safety Shield
Intrado Safety Shield offers schools the only true end-to-end emergency planning & response tool that shares critical data directly with 911 dispatchers and first responders using their native 9-1-1 infrastructure.
Safety Shield is part of Intrado’s Safety Suite and helps schools Prevent, Prepare, Respond & Recover from any kind of threat with a comprehensive set of tools built for keeping schools, students and staff safe. intrado.com
Incident Management and Response/Incident and Records Management Software: ARC Facilities
ARC Facilities empowers educational facilities to reduce risk, improve safety, and better prepare for emergencies by providing instant access to critical building information to facilities and emergency response teams on mobile devices. arcfacilities.com
Integrated System: Genetec Security Center 5.11
Genetec Security Center™ brings all central IP security systems into one unified platform. Security Center 5.11 simplifies the path to a unified system by including video monitoring, access control, automatic license plate recognition, intrusion monitoring, intercom and the new Genetec Web App, a map-based application that runs on a browser. genetec.com
Internet Safety: Zimperium Mobile Threat Defense (MTD)
Zimperium MTD is the first and only comprehensive, on-device, machine learning-based security solution for iOS, Android and Chromebooks devices. Zimperium MTD enables IT and security teams to reduce their risk by securing their Mobile endpoints against advanced device, network, phishing and malicious app attacks. Watch on YouTube.
Miscellaneous Security and Safety Products: Raptor StudentSafe
Raptor’s patented StudentSafe is the first-of-its-kind platform to help schools recognize, document, support, and manage the wellbeing of individual students. The intuitive and robust platform includes the ability to capture low-level concerns, conduct behavioral threat assessments and suicide risk assessments and manage such cases, ensuring positive student outcomes. raptortech.com
Project Management/Overall Project by an Integrator: Hernando County School District by Axis
Through its upgrade to Axis network cameras, video management system, intercoms, speakers, and software integrations, Hernando County School District worked with GC&E Systems Group LLC to turn its security posture from reactive to preventive. After its upgrade from analog to IP network video surveillance, the school district resolved a potential threat involving ammunition in just minutes. axis.com
Want to see even more campus safety, security and emergency products? Check out these honorable mentions in this year’s BEST program!
