While students, staff and faculty are still primarily engaged in virtual learning, educational institutions can use the current situation as an opportunity to evaluate and enhance video surveillance technologies on campus.
Technology will help protect students, faculty, and visitors by proactively monitoring and detecting threats at first sight
Video Management Systems can integrate temperature and social distancing detection, access control and tracking technologies so your organization can reopen safely.
A proposed bill would impose a blanket ban on most federal use of nearly all biometric and related image analytics technologies. Below, SIA makes its case for why the ban should not be passed.
Reacting to an unforeseen security issue used to be the only option, but combining modern technologies can change that.
Be on the lookout for these access control trends. Perhaps your campus has already embraced some of them.
The use of fingerprint and vein biometrics technologies will most likely suffer due to new stringent infectious disease protocols, but facial and iris recognition could experience an increase.
Ask these questions when shopping for a new or upgraded video surveillance system your for school, university or healthcare facility.
CSUN uses video analytics to identify incidents as they happen and has reduced grand theft auto by 60 percent.