SAN ANTONIO – MDI Inc., provider of Unified Technology™ solutions for the security industry, has announced that it has delivered an advanced order for immediate installation at two new school campuses in California by Certified MDI Security Integration Partner, Construction Electronics, Incorporated (CEI). The order is scheduled to be unified into a district-wide campus security project that includes access control, alarm management and a network based IP video surveillance management system. The MDI platform is designed to control all security alarms and surveillance points, throughout each campus in the district, from a central command center location.
The two projects are part of a larger construction project involving 12 new school campuses and three renovated school campuses to alleviate overcrowding in this California city’s most densely populated and rapidly developing areas. The first project is for a high school campus designed to accommodate 2,700 students in grades 9-12 with 323,196 square feet of building space across 24 acres of land.
The state-of-the-art campus will feature four comprehensive high schools on one campus, each one focusing on a different career field. Campus features include 77 general classrooms, an arts complex, library, complete athletic facilities, a 790-seat auditorium and 376 onsite parking spaces. The second project will be installed at a new middle school campus on over 36 acres with 162,000 square feet of facility space including three three-story buildings, five elevators and a 22,000-square-foot administration building and library. The new campus will serve an estimated 1600 students in 6th through 8th grade.
The MDI system, integrated and maintained by knowledgeable professionals like CEI, delivers an automated security command and control environment to school districts which replaces human efforts with technical advances and serves as a centralized decision support system for security personnel. The analysis of real-time intelligence provided by system analytics empowers school security personnel to implement security procedures remotely, including keyless lockdowns, in an automated campus environment.
Unified access, alarm, video and audio communication capabilities give school security managers the advantage of having complete situational awareness during an incident. With this system, validating the current state of security in each classroom, within each school building at each district campus becomes a reality. Security cameras in every hallway and manual lockdown procedures that take hours to accomplish and verify at large campuses may sometimes provide teachers and administrators with a false sense of security.
Frank Hermes, president of CEI, sees the order as a manifestation of strong vision from both parties. “CEI applauds the school district’s wisdom in its selection of MDI as their security partner. MDI has been an industry-dominating player for so many years as a direct result of their incessant striving to provide the optimum, custom-tailored security system package that solves the client’s immediate requirements, while allowing flexibility for growth and change as needs and conditions evolve,” he states.
“CEI has been our trusted integration partner for many years and we are pleased to be working with their technical security team once again on these new school campus projects,” states J. Collier Sparks, president and CEO of MDI Inc. “The breadth and depth of overall security experience within our two organizations in open school system environments delivers true value to district campuses, regardless of size or scope. I join Frank in applauding this security-minded California school system for selecting a proven campus security solution to protect their people, facilities and assets,” he concludes.
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An MDI Inc. press release.
