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Network cameras aid security at New York school district
Long Beach City School District using existing WAN infrastructure
CHELMSFORD, Mass. – April 2008 – Axis Communications, the global leader in the network video market, today announced that the Long Beach City School District on Long Island, NY, is using its network cameras to provide public school security. "School safety has increasingly become a public concern as the National School Safety and Security Services reported 27 deaths, 85 non-death shooting incidents and 238 violent incidents ranging from stabbings to fights and Taser attacks across the nation during the 2005-2006 school year," said Fredrik Nilsson, general manager of Axis Communications Inc. Bay Shore, N.Y.-based A+ Technology Solutions Inc. designed the security system along with Michel Richez, director of technology and information services for Long Beach City School District. In addition to the new security camera system, Richez manages the infrastructure for the entire district, its schools and offices, along with technology staff development, website and phones. Our key objective on this project was to design a security system that would leverage the existing infrastructure and provide the benefit of high-resolution clarity for positive identification," said David Antar, president of A+. "From our experience the clear choice was Axis Communications network cameras for the edge devices and IPVideo Corporation's Dynaview Enterprise Class NVR as the backend solution." Concrete walls presented wiring challenges. With a WAN already in place, the team chose IP-based network cameras from Axis Communications, because network cameras don't require as extensive wiring as analog cameras. In addition, IP-based systems can be implemented faster and provide higher resolution. According to Richez, "The Axis products we chose delivered the crisp pictures we desired and IPVideo Corporation's NVR was user friendly. There was minimal training and my administrators could use and access the video easily." Another benefit was that the WAN enabled Richez to maximize the system even further because he was able to establish virtual private networks so that the school officials and/or law enforcement could log in to the network from their laptops anywhere in the world at any time. |
