Hello World! Welcome Friends! Each day 12 children die from gun violence in America. As an education provider, it’s your duty to provide a secure learning environment, easing students’ anxiety about violent crimes. But which are the best solutions to prevent violence on campus?
Let’s explore the three most effective ways schools can create a secure learning environment. Don’t neglect your security strategy – you’re responsible for protecting the children in your care – and there are some fantastic security grants for schools available nowadays to fund your security investments.
Cloud-Based Access Control
One of the leading school security solutions is cloud-based access control. Schools must implement access control for safeguarding, ensuring only authorized staff members and students can enter the premises.
Cloud-based access control provides more convenience for a school’s security strategy in the following ways:
- Remote management – system administrators and security teams can easily lock and unlock doors using a mobile device. They can allow visitors into the building without traveling to the site’s entrance, saving valuable time.
- Remote admin – you can perform administrative duties such as onboarding and offboarding from anywhere with a cloud-based access control system. You can do so instantly without visiting a control room if you need to revoke access credentials.
- Mobile access credentials – keycards and fobs can incur hefty replacement costs over time. To mitigate these costs, cloud-based access control enables mobile access credentials. Students and staff members can easily download access credentials to their mobile devices, like digital keycards.
- Touchless entry – with digital keycards, students can enter the building without touching a button or swiping a keycard. All they need to do is wave their hand over the access reader, which will trigger remote communication with their mobile device to unlock the door. This is a more hygienic and swift entry mode, enhancing the user experience for security.
- First-time entry – the touchless entry feature of cloud-based access control uses three modes of communication. It uses WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellular communication simultaneously to detect access credentials, ensuring no failure. This way, traffic will flow smoothly into school buildings with minimal interruption.
In addition to these revolutionary and convenient features, cloud-based access control offers open API integrations. You can leverage software integrations to automate processes and get the most out of your security hardware.
Visitor Management Software
Visitor management is the cornerstone of safeguarding a secure school facility. You must keep an accurate visitor record for several reasons:
- Firstly, you must ensure that all visitors have the accreditations to enter the school unaccompanied by a staff member.
- Secondly, you must ensure you have accurate and reliable data to show who is inside the building. This data will be invaluable in an emergency evacuation.
Visitor management is too vital for schools to rely solely on logbooks and manual data entry processes. Schools are automating visitor management for more reliability and accuracy using the open API integrations of cloud-based access control.
The software integrates with access control hardware, providing visitors with a digital survey to fill out on their mobile devices before entering the premises. Once they have completed the form, the visitor will gain temporary access credentials on their mobile device, allowing them to move through the building without assistance (so long as they have the proper checks and certificates).
Not only does this process improve the accuracy of visitor logs, but it reduces the requirements for manual intervention – allowing your security and reception staff to focus on more critical tasks.
Alarms and Lockdown Systems
Schools are required by law to provide fire and carbon monoxide detection systems for student safety. However, many different types of alarms offer additional protection, such as:
- Gunshot detectors
- Glassbreak sensors
- Intrusion alarms
These alarms go a long way in creating agile security responses for security threats on site. If you opt for cloud-based alarm systems, you will receive a security alert if one of these alarms is triggered, allowing your security staff to investigate the issue.
You can also leverage open API integrations to automate lockdown procedures. If a gunshot is detected on site, this will trigger lockdown procedures via your access control system. All door locks in the school will activate to contain the shooter and prevent further damage.
Cloud-Based Video Surveillance
On-premise surveillance systems generally serve two purposes – they act as a deterrent for crime and document any crimes occurring on your property. However, cloud-based surveillance systems can do much more for your security strategy.
Your security staff can view camera data from anywhere on their mobile devices, allowing them to investigate potential security threats instantly. This makes your security camera system more helpful in preventing crimes than simply documenting them. You can even use open API integrations to apply AI threat detection, so your security staff won’t miss any potential incidents. They won’t be able to monitor your security feed all day, which is why this security integration is essential.
Summary
School security is essential to a comfortable learning experience. Knowing that the premises are equipped with an agile, responsive, and proactive security strategy will give students more peace of mind. Consider the security tools listed above and whether they would enhance your existing security strategy.
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