Ensuring the safety of students and staff is vital for the welfare and success of educational institutions. Effective school security requires innovative solutions that integrate technology and foster cooperation among various stakeholders. The partnership between Convergint and Genetec makes a significant impact in this regard. Together, they collaborate to implement advanced security technologies and enhance safety measures in schools.

About the solution

Schools face challenges in ensuring the safety of their environment. These challenges include coordinating responses among different stakeholders, managing large populations, and processing extensive surveillance data efficiently. Building and maintaining trust between school communities and security personnel is crucial for effective safety measures. Addressing these challenges is essential to create secure and supportive educational environments.

System solutions & benefits

The transformative partnership between Convergint and Genetec marks a significant stride in making schools safer and more secure for students. The system solutions and benefits include:

  • Unified Monitoring Data: Keep students, visitors, and staff safe by integrating monitoring data with the access control system.

  • Automated Video Analysis: Quickly identify unauthorized individuals.

  • Occupancy Management: Ensure safe movement throughout campus while protecting individual privacy.

  • Real-Time Situational Awareness: Enhance response from emergency personnel and law enforcement.

  • License Plate Recognition: Identify suspicious vehicles approaching school premises.

The benefits of Security Center Synergis™

Synergis is an easy to use access control system that boosts security and simplifies management for schools. The benefits of Synergis allow you to:

  • Manage people, not doors: Equip staff with access control cards and assign permissions based on the cardholder’s role.

  • Work with local law enforcement: Share system access with police, alert officers, and provide video access during emergencies, ensuring only authorized personnel have access.

  • Keep hardware to reduce costs: Maintain existing wiring and readers while incrementally upgrading systems as budgets allow.

  • Expand systems with minimal resources: Utilize the cloud-based Synergis SaaS edition to reduce installation costs and maintenance. This approach eliminates extensive on-site hardware, ensures seamless updates, and provides scalability. It minimizes upfront investment and ongoing maintenance, allowing schools to focus on enhancing security.

  • Defend against cyber threats: Protect student and staff data with built-in security.

  • Respond with confidence: Unify access control, video surveillance, and intercom systems, using live video notifications and interactive maps for quick responses.

System results

The implementation of Security Center Synergis in schools has shown significant improvements in safety and security. With this system, schools are now able to:

  • Monitor and manage access points effectively.

  • Respond to emergencies promptly with enhanced situational awareness.

  • Reduce costs economically through effective resource management and hardware integration.

  • Protect sensitive data securely against cyber threats.

  • Foster a secure learning environment that allows students to thrive encouragingly.

Through the partnership between Convergint and Genetec, schools can utilize advanced technology to create safer, smarter, and more connected educational environments. By addressing the challenges faced by school safety and promoting collaboration among stakeholders, this initiative paves the way for innovative solutions in school security.

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About Genetec

Genetec is a leading technology provider based in Montreal, Canada, specializing in unified physical security, public safety, and operations. Since 1997, Genetec has been at the forefront of innovation, offering open-platform software, hardware, and cloud-based services globally. Their flagship product, Security Center, integrates video surveillance, access control, and automatic license plate recognition into a unified platform. Serving enterprise and government organizations in over 159 countries, Genetec continues to lead in emerging technologies that enhance physical security systems.

Effective security and safety is a multi-layered approach involving people, processes, and technologies. Convergint-provided products and services are only one part of this multi-layered approach, will not detect or prevent all threats or solve every risk, and should not be your sole method of security or safety. Please see the “IMPORTANT PRODUCT SAFETY AND SERVICE INFORMATION” documentation, available at convergint.com/terms, prior to using a Convergint-installed system.

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