Why a College Campus Should Use Video Surveillance to Investigate a Missing Person
The use of video surveillance (CCTV) systems in public schools has been common for more than 20 years, playing an essential role to monitor buildings and their surrounding areas. A CCTV network will allow you real-time insight on what’s happening within your K-12 school. An educational facility is an area where there could be many potential threats as people are constantly coming and going. It is not only an educational institution’s responsibility to educate students but to protect them. The safety of children, teachers and staff is the number one priority for ant school. By having a CCTV in place, you can monitor, reduce and perhaps prevent potential threatening activities. Some examples of these activities include:
- Visitors entering without permission
- Staff members leaving early without checking with anyone first
- Students taking authorized trips outside the school
- People wandering on to the school grounds
- Criminals with bad intentions
- Stranger on campus
- More
Video surveillance cameras provide both key footage of incidents and potential deterrents. They act as an investigative tool, but their presence may also discourage bad behavior such as cheating on exams or fighting in the quad. People who see that they’re being recorded might think twice before participating.
The value the video footage provides can be enormous as it is a great way to document evidence. Whether it is to inform personnel at school or all the way up to being used in court, CCTV networks are excellent in providing security for students, parents, staff, faculty, and all those who come and go in your kindergarten through 12th grade school buildings.
The means by which we capture video has changed dramatically over the years. The most recent advancement in this field is the connection of school cameras to internet servers, allowing authorized operators access through browser-based dashboards to monitor live feeds from off campus. This is a huge advantage during long breaks like vacation periods when staff may not be on site.
Video content analytics software offers a solution to these challenges and many others. The automated system can detect real-time abnormalities in the camera view, while effective ways of reviewing video footage are available through this tool’s features. One method of being able to watch what occurred and how things occurred is by referring to the automatic generated reports on an activity detected by cameras over specific time periods. This speeds up the reviewing time of footage tremendously. That is just ONE example and there are so many other benefits that this type of security offers.
Powered by Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, video intelligence software extracts, classifies, indexes, and recognizes objects and behaviors that are captured on video. This makes it possible to search and review footage quickly and accurately, using multiple filters based on object class and attributes such as clothing or vehicle type and color, direction of movement, gender, or an adult vs. child. In addition to this quick footage reviewing system set up by the software’s categorizing abilities, the software also collects long-term data which is then used to help school administrators derive operational intelligence reports. These reports can be heat maps illustrating footfall in buildings across campus or dashboards showing vehicle or pedestrian traffic volume over time. Both of these can help identify patterns so that administrators may improve upon things like school scheduling, traffic patterns, or campus layout.
The technology is so advanced that CCTV cameras have facial recognition software and even license plate readers to identify criminals. In today’s world of heightened safety at schools, where every detail matters, it can be difficult for law enforcement officials sometimes knowing who they’re looking at when searching through footage captured by surveillance systems or monitoring posts around campus locations like libraries—until now! With these new technologies comes an entirely different level in security as well as convenience. Operators can customize alerts based on lists containing mugshots from sex offender registries that have been uploaded onto the system allowing them instant access not only to identify vehicles, but people too—all without wasting time scrolling endlessly.
As you can see, there are many advantages to having a video surveillance network at your school. From the prevention of potentially dangerous actions, to providing evidence for use in court, it is a no-brainer that all K-12 schools have this protection in place. However, it is crucial to contact a company that specializes in CCTV systems to ensure you have the best custom network for your facility’s needs. You also want to work with a professional team who is there to answer all your questions 24/7 and is looking out for each and every person that walks on your campus.
Reach out to us now for a discovery call to learn all about CCTV systems to protect your greatest asset: students and those who educate and care for them.
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