April 23, 2007—MDI, Inc., a leading provider of Unified Technology solutions for the security industry, announced that it has delivered an advanced order for immediate installation at two new school campuses in California by Certified MDI Security Integration Partner, Construction Electronics, Incorporated (CEI).
The order is scheduled to be unified into a district-wide campus security project that includes access control, alarm management and a network based IP video surveillance management system, says MDI. The MDI platform is designed to control all security alarms and surveillance points throughout each campus in the district from a central command center location.
The two projects are part of a larger construction project involving twelve new school campuses and three renovated school campuses to alleviate overcrowding in this California city’s most densely populated and rapidly developing areas, notes the company. The first project is for a high school campus designed to accommodate 2,700 students in grades 9-12 with 323,196 square feet of building space across 24 acres of land.
The analysis of real-time intelligence provided by system analytics empowers school security personnel to implement security procedures remotely, including keyless lockdowns, in an automated campus environment.
Unified access, alarm, video and audio communication capabilities give school security managers the advantage of having complete situational awareness during an incident.
With this system, validating the current state of security in each classroom, within each school building at each district campus becomes a reality. Security cameras in every hallway and manual lockdown procedures that take hours to accomplish and verify at large campuses may sometimes provide teachers and administrators with a false sense of security.
For more information, see the MDI Web site.
