IP video surveillance at the service of the educational environment to improve security and relationships with parents

Dancing Moose Montessori Dance School of Utah, (EU) has maintained its educational principles, based on improving the relationship between the center and families in a transparent way, investing in an IP video surveillance solution that allows parents to remotely monitor the classes their children attend without interfering with them.

Student safety, teaching staff and facilities is a key factor for the Dancing Moose Montessori dance school, located in West Valley City in the American city of Utah, Although the philosophy of this educational center has been based since its origins on transparency in the relationships of the entire community that comprises it..

Under this premise, The school needed a video surveillance system that, in addition to security, fulfilled its commitment to transparency with families, in such a way that it would make it easier for parents to see and control their children remotely without having to interrupt classes or make them feel inhibited by the installation of cameras..

The solution to achieve this was obtained from the integrator Stone Security, that opted for the manufacturer's IP video surveillance technology Axis Communications, in open platform video management software (VMS) of Milestone Systems (curiously, Both security companies have been acquired a few months apart by Canon), as well as in the visual systems of NEC Display.

Specifically, The project carried out is structured around the installation of forty Axis network cameras distributed inside the premises and some outside, managed with IP Milestone XProtect Express software, plus two HD monitors 42 inches of NEC Display located in the hallways, so that parents and school administrators can see the progress of classes without interfering with them.

The Axis cameras chosen by Stone Security inside the school have been the M3006-V models, of 3 megapixels and widescreen display, the M3007-PV dome 5 megapixels, while for the exterior of the venue, the 720p HDTV model P3364-VE with Lightfinder technology was chosen for low or no lighting conditions..

Thanks to the solution adopted by Dancing Moose Montessori, Parents have direct remote access to their child's classroom with a simple mouse click, without the distraction that their presence would create in the training environment, and observe their learning process and their relationships with their classmates and teachers. Besides, In the hallways of the center itself they have two monitors so that both they and the school administrators can observe the students and the development of the classes in real time.

For these last, The network video surveillance system also allows them to evaluate teachers and the development of each class, to which is added that its integration with access control provides efficient management of both security and other activities in the school..

Jennifer Duffield, CEO of Dancing Moose Montessori, points out that the installation of this solution “has become a great attraction for our school, because parents love the idea of ​​leaving their children here knowing that a simple check-in into the system shows them that their child is fine and participating in classroom activities naturally and safely.”.