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Management
2022 SSI Commercial
End-User Forum
Nothing
happens without
trust, and you
have to trust your
integrators
providing you
with the best
solution for
whatever problem
you're trying to
solve.
- Paul Sarnese,
Virtua Health
Let's get deeper into the weeds of the
security solutions presently deployed by
your organizations.
Pluretti: We use a local technology integrator
called NextGen, and they've been great. We
use Genetec as our video management system
and interface. We have a couple of upgrades
inside of Genetec we've implemented the past
couple years that have been key to making our
camera system a little bit more usable and user-friendly
for our staff. We use C-CURE for
all of our card access control. Alarm Center
is a local solution with double alarms, which
utilizes our Silent Knight fire panel also on
campus. We use ARMS for our records management
system, including CAD, parking,
property management and recordkeeping for
our officers and incident reports.
We use Enterprise Fleet Management for all
the institution's vehicles. We have electric vehicles,
so I'm using Enphase for all of our GEM
cars and energy management solutions and
monitoring. Then our mass notification vendor
is Omnilert, and we're working with them to
develop some custom solutions and have done
some upgrades over the years as well.
Sarnese: For our access control system, we use
IDenticard's PremiSys, and we've been successful
interfacing that with our video management
and infant abduction systems. For our video
management system, we use the Hanwha Techwin
product. For our infant abduction, we use
Hugs. They all interface.
When a panic button is pushed and activated,
our access control system pops up a dialogue
box that says panic button has been activated
at the cashier on the second floor. The video
management system pops up 10 seconds of recorded
video prior to the pushing of the panic
button while we're looking at the actual video
of that area. Then it provides our staff with directions
to respond. With Hugs, not only does
it lock down doors upon activation, it also pops
up cameras, locks down our elevators and locks
doors and so forth. There's a lot of touch-andgo
systems there.
We use Everbridge as our mass notification
system. We've been very successful using that
during COVID, now during monkeypox, and
other threats we've had throughout the organization.
It's a really good tool to be able
to push information out quickly. We actually
just started utilizing their Safety Connect
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piece, which is for our staff that is working in
the community. It's basically a panic button
on your mobile device. It provides a virtual
escort as well as literally a panic button that
will notify the local police department in that
geographical area.
As our incident reporting system, we're
currently using RL Solutions. Right before
COVID, we implemented another mobile
solution, which we've gotten a lot of great
feedback from our employees, called My-EOP.
It allows us to put our emergency operations
plan or any type of emergency information at
the fingertips of our employees, literally right
on their phone. Our entire emergency operations
plan is on there. All of the incident action
plans, our incident command system forms,
emergency supplies, emergency contacts, that
information is there.
Cain: When I came into the situation, we had
a hodgepodge of camera systems around the
school district. Each school was using something
different - some were so outdated that
they had been purchased many years ago at
RadioShack. I quickly learned we needed an
enterprise system around the district that was
all interconnected, integrated together. We
went out for a bond with the local voters, the
taxpayers, and we were successful in that bond.
We garnered the money that we needed for the
project. Through a lengthy RFP program, we
ended up hiring a local integrator who we've
been lucky with. They've been phenomenal.
We went with the Motorola product, Avigilon,
for the camera systems. We're still in the
infancy stages of the installation. Out of 39
schools, we're right now at about seven schools
completed. They're presently working on our
district office. Our goal is by within the next
year-and-a-half to two years having all 40 schools
completed, all integrated. Each site will be able
to review their own cameras with all the schools
being fed to my office, a command center, security
operations center, all being fed to here.
We have card access at some locations, not
everywhere. That's another bid process we're
looking at. I'm hoping whatever system we
end up going with integrates in with our camera
system so they all work flawlessly together.
Another topic on my wish list is secured entryways
at the schools. We have five complete
with three being worked on right now. In that
secured entryway is a Raptor system we use for
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