VNS IVA Solution
The recent pandemic of COVID-19 has intensified demand for video surveillance and integrated electronic security solutions in educational facilities as schools and colleges struggle to safeguard their environment against the pandemic.Educators, students,and parents alike are anxious to get back to the traditional mode of educating students in person, instead of online classroom setting that has been the norm since the spread of COVID-19.
On the other hand, many healthcare and disease management experts and regulatory bodies have warned the high risk of transmission in any crowded environment, without implementing strict measures to prevent its spread.
There is also an innate need to improve situational awareness through innovative technology tools that can provide school management and security staff a seamlessly integrated view of dispersed systems. This can include touch-less access control in administrative areas to analytic based video surveillance integrated with temperature screening thermal cameras or face detection terminals to efficiently manage COVID-19 prevention initiatives, including safe distancing, occupancy limits, mask compliance, isolation measures, etc.
Educational institutions are also exploring ways to improve real time situational awareness throughout their premises and intensification of intelligent response as needed in any given situation in the classroom or on the playground.
Educational sector customers appear to be very keen in implementing innovative analytics to streamline their security operations without breaking their already stressed budgets and to ensure protection of their investment, which due to COVID-19 screening measures such as automatic fever detection, may seem like a temporary expenditure.
From improving early detection to contact tracing abilities, authorities in educational sectors are looking ways that will help their specific environment where the use of manual thermometer to screen for the possible presence of COVID related fever, is impractical and simply unmanageable. VNS has conducted extensive research by engaging directly with various primary and secondary education facilities and consulted with their management to conduct “proof of concepts” and came up with the following key requests, considered by school management to be fundamental requirements under the current scenario.
- Analytic based alerts and automated rapid response in case of positive detection.
- Utilization of existing video surveillance assets to improve situational awareness.
- Overall improvement of campus security through integration and implementation of access control and alarm systems with video surveillance and health management systems.
- Touch-less and rapid screening for possible fever for multiple, moving objects.
- Face recognition and mask detection that can be integrated with school attendance systems for both staff and students.
- Analytic based alerts to raise awareness on the social distancing needs.
Implementation of this holistic approach with key technologies can help create a safer and healthier environment for staff and students, alike.
Video Network Security has taken the initiative in alliance with our IVA – Intelligent Video Alliance platform partners Netavis GmbH, Secure Logiq and SAFR in offering an innovative and deeply integrated analytic based solution that is not only holistic, scalable, open and intelligent but simple to use for non-technical staff and operators to ensure maximum utilization and best results.
Our IVA integrated intelligent VMS solution can serve as a unified platform, so multiple systems can be monitored and managed from one location at the campus and from a remote management center to optimize resources. This design also ensures there is no single point of failure
VNS provide a variety of Artificial Intelligence based Infrared thermal cameras to screen for possible presence of COVID-19 related fever. Our Stellar, Sterling and Basic Series fever detection cameras can accurately detect body temperature of multiple moving objects from a safe distance and raise important alerts for the efficient management of ingress and egress of staff and students.
VNS thermal fever detection cameras are fully integrated with our IVA platform to provide data from mask detection to face identification and using SDK or API can be easily integrated with campus attendance or other 3rd party systems. With extensive and intuitive dashboards, screener and operators can view real-time status of single or multiple campuses, as well as easily manage reporting tools providing alerts for occupancy levels and rule violations by time, day and month.
Touch-less and rapidly deployable and mobile access control is more relevant than ever now, including in the education vertical, by removing the need for staff or students to touch readers, doors, and other access points physically may reduce the spread of communicable diseases. A biometric terminal with integrated thermal imaging technology with facial recognition and mask detection at a staff entrance that is integrated with campus attendance and video surveillance system, for example, can detect whether the staff member has any presence of temperature to prompt further screening before being allowed to enter the campus or particular area.
To learn more about VNS and our IVA platform and how we can help you improve your campus security, please contact us at +971 4 501 5900 or email at info@vnsec.us or visit www.vnsec.us for more information.
Salim is a USA citizen currently stationed in Dubai. He has extensive training from United States electronic security organizations and a professional degree in electronics engineering from USA. Salim is well-known and respected name in the United States and GCC security industries having served various management positions with Fortune 500 companies including Johnson Controls, Javelin Systems, Ademco Security Group, Honeywell Security, Dedicated Micros, AD Network Video UK and BT Group before joining VNS. Salim is a frequent contributor of technology articles and a public speaker on innovative security technologies and public policies.
