One of the effective controls of monitoring and ensuring safety at school is the use of video surveillance software. Such applications allow school security guards to control the situation at school, to respond in due time, to prevent trespassing, to prevent clashes of the pupils, smoking within prohibited areas etc.
Meeting the following targets:
- Ensuring safety of pupils and staff: Video surveillance enables tracking of illegal acts such as theft or vandalism and allowing prompt response. For example the system can automatically detect unattended items or identify suspicious activities in certain areas of the school and ensure alert at the alarm monitor.
- Visitor monitoring: video surveillance allows to track school visitors, recognise faces and match them against children database compiled through the parents and staff permission and make sure they have the permission to stay in the building. This helps in identifying potential security threats.
- Improved discipline and behavioural control: video surveillance can be used to monitor discipline since the pupils are aware that their actions can be recorded. This can help to improve behaviour in general and to reduce disruption in the school environment. What is more video recordings can be used as evidence: you will find out what has happened even if the guard is not there when you need to.
- Incident Investigation: camera recordings can be used to investigate incidents that took place at school such as fights, theft or property damage. This helps to clarify the circumstances of the incident and identify the faulty parties who can be traced when searching for fragments in the video archive.
- Monitoring of staff performance: video surveillance can be used to monitor teachers at work to ensure that they are carrying out their duties accordingly and with due diligence.
Eocortex is a user-friendly software operating with large-scale systems as well since it can be integrated into numerous recognised access control systems and fire alarm systems available in the market and uses a consolidated common events log.
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