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superintendent of education at Franklin
County School District. "We are
particularly mindful of the difculty
in monitoring an entire school without
being intrusive or distracting or
investing in additional personnel. We
believed that a particular technology
that could help us monitor what
happens in our schools would be of
great interest."
Like many schools throughout the
country, Franklin's elementary school,
junior high school and high school
relied on manually locked doors and
a resource ofcer to maintain security
and respond to events. In light of
local and national concerns for school
safety, the district understood that this
solution was no longer sufcient to
protect the community's most precious
resource – its children. It determined
that the best way to ensure that
students, staf, parents and visitors were
safe while at school was to deploy an
access control and surveillance system
that could be centrally administered
and remotely deployed.
A SMART SOLUTION
Trough the solution that FTC
implemented, school administrators
have the ability to view a video feed
from any surveillance camera on
any Internet-connected device.
Te broadband connection to each
school building and the district
administrative ofce facilitates the
ability to review full-quality video
from remote locations.
In addition, electronic door locks
can be activated on a command basis
and a time-of-day basis to ensure
efcient access at high-demand times,
such as the beginning of the school
day, and still ensure the positive
authentication of visitors around
the clock. Tese locks can also be
controlled from a mobile device in the
School administrators can view a video feed
from any surveillance camera on any Internet-
connected device. The broadband connections
in their ofces allow them to review full-quality
video from remote locations.
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