All five schools are connected on a WAN (wide area network) and the system records 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The system provides instant access to live and recorded video from an unlimited number of cameras, as well as automated detection of incidents, which are ‘pushed’ to school officials’ video clients, both on and off-site. Once identified, incidents can be investigated directly from users’ desktop video clients and video of incidents can be exported for court evidence.
Ron Freschi, director of large system sales at NAV, said this installation is typical of a trend developing in the educational market.
“We have installed more network-based surveillance systems in elementary and secondary schools this past year than in any year previous,” said Freschi.
“Internet connectivity is almost mandatory in today’s learning environment and once the schools have the network in place, it’s very easy for us to add video surveillance to the application.”
The system designed and installed by North American Video includes a combination of cameras from Sony, including the SNC-DF40N indoor mini dome camera, the SNC-RZ25N outdoor pan/tilt camera w/MPEG-4, the SCC-B239I outdoor fixed day/night camera and the SSC-CD73V and SSC-CD43V day/night mini dome cameras.
The video from the cameras is recorded to OnSSI’s Net DVMS network video recorder (NVR) and camera management system software, running on a stock Dell server.
Brick, N.J where the schools are based is ranked fifth on a list of the safest cities in America.
