Modern Cloud-Based Security for Colleges and Universities
Protect students and staff in a privacy-sensitive manner with a unified physical security platform.
Leading Cloud-Based Physical Security
Legacy systems are falling short of the rising safety needs of today's colleges and universities. Join a global network of academic institutions using Verkada's cloud-managed physical security platform to raise the standard for campus safety. Unify fragmented security systems under one platform to accelerate investigations, improve incident response, and give IT and security teams greater peace of mind – all while protecting student privacy and enhancing cyber security.
Why Colleges and Universities Choose Verkada
Experience a new level of simplicity with Verkada. All you need is the hardware and access to Command, our software platform, which updates automatically. Centrally manage all Verkada devices and users from any browser or mobile device. Gain actionable insights with information integrated across devices.
- Accelerate investigations and monitor campus activity in real time
- Instantly share live camera feeds with security teams or local police
- Easy multi-site management with granular, role-based user permissions
- Empower university security with a user-friendly and intuitive system
- Up to 10-year warranty, predictable renewal costs, and unlimited user seats
- Investigate faster with AI-powered people and vehicle analytics and instant alerts
- Protect student privacy with live or selective face blur and privacy regions
- Deter cyber security threats with SSO, 2FA, and Enterprise Controlled Encryption
- IT-friendly with bandwidth-efficient cameras and zero servers or NVRs to manage
- Top-rated technical support – available 24/7 via email, phone, or live chat
"We no longer need to change hard drives and rebuild storage, eliminating the cost of repairs and maintenance. The camera notifies me when it's offline. It's so simple to use that I no longer have to run across different campuses for trivial tasks."
Paul Raudkepp, COO and CIO
Temple University, Japan Campus
"The search functionality is excellent. We can quickly find incidents by searching for specific attributes like clothing colours or vehicle descriptions. This used to take hours; now it takes minutes."
Adrian Lawson, Head of IT
Craven College
Safeguard Campus and Protect Students and Faculty
Speed up investigations with privacy in mind
- Quickly find critical footage across large campuses. Simply type a description or upload a photo to retrieve relevant video using AI-powered analytics.
- Use history player search to instantly construct a timeline of a suspect's appearances across multiple cameras, with timestamped video clips to aid investigations.
- Enable live face blur to protect student privacy while viewing camera feeds. Plus, selectively blur faces of individuals when saving footage for review.
Mobile credentials simplify building entry
- Managing lost keycards wastes time and resources. With mobile NFC credentials or the Verkada Pass app, students and staff can use their smartphones to unlock select doors – no keycards or fobs required.
- Facilities teams can remotely unlock doors from a mobile device or desktop, letting vendors or contractors enter buildings without the need to be on site.
Stay ahead of perimeter threats
- Notify security teams via SMS when AI-enabled cameras spot known offenders on campus for swift intervention.
- Verkada Alarms acts as a virtual extension of on-site security teams, keeping watch over critical areas with 24/7 professional monitoring and video verification.
Monitor car parks remotely
- Supervise car parks around the clock with cloud-based cameras powered by cellular gateways, enabling remote access to footage without costly cable runs.
- Easily set licence plate of interest (LPOI) alerts to notify university security teams or police when flagged vehicles approach car parks.
Transform Incident Response and Unify Security Systems
Power faster incident response
- Stream camera feeds directly into security control rooms, accelerating officer dispatch in response to critical incidents.
- Quickly send floorplans with embedded video feeds to campus security teams or local police via SMS or a direct link, guiding officers to the location of the incident.
- Remotely unlock select doors during an incident, while keeping the rest of campus safely locked down.
Initiate a lockdown procedure
- Secure key building entryways with cloud-managed access control. Instantly lock down all critical exterior doors across campus with the press of a button from a smartphone or desktop, restricting access to select buildings.
- Easily set custom lockdown scenarios and specify which doors to secure, enabling a targeted response for a single building or the entire site depending on the nature of the threat.
Real-time security insights in one platform
- Manage all physical security operations on one platform for connected, real-time campus intelligence.
- Analyse Verkada's video data, from known offenders to flagged vehicles, alongside existing third-party cameras to enhance situational awareness.
Improve response for emergencies
- Boost emergency preparedness and alert responders instantly with mounted panic buttons, calling emergency services with a single click.
- Review historical footage from past events to assist security leaders in future emergency planning.
Optimise Campus Operations and Enhance Security
Enhance cyber security protection
- Strengthen cyber security with granular, role-based user permissions, restricting camera footage access to authorised users. Plus, automatically track user activity across the organisation with audit logs.
- Verkada encrypts data at rest and in transit. For added control, Enterprise Controlled Encryption lets your institution manage its own encryption keys, helping ensure video footage is client-side encrypted.
Reduce the burden on IT teams
- Take the pressure off IT with a cloud-native platform – no NVRs or on-site servers required, and 24/7 technical support so devices run smoothly.
- Simplify password management with support for single sign-on (SSO) and two-factor authentication (2FA).
- Automate user provisioning via SCIM integration or bulk CSV import to maintain up-to-date users and permissions.
Streamline access to campus services
- Simplify visitor check-in at residence halls, student services centres, and alumni offices with Verkada Guest, a digital visitor management system.
- Send orientation and tour invites in multiple languages via email, elevating the visitor experience.
- Quickly issue temporary physical or digital credentials to visiting vendors or lecturers, granting time-limited access to specific buildings.
Monitor temperature-sensitive environments
- Protect critical spaces – like server rooms, dining hall kitchens, and labs – with proactive alerts triggered when temperature or humidity exceeds set limits.
- Set HVAC systems to automatically respond to air quality readings via Verkada's BACnet integration, helping maintain optimal conditions to prevent equipment failure, food spoilage, or other disruptions.
One Platform to Unify Higher Education Security
- Video Security: Record 24/7 with AI-enabled cameras that store up to 365 days of footage. Choose from models that support privacy-sensitive features such as live or selective face blur.
- Intercom: Protect entrances with video intercoms – answer calls from anywhere with sharp video, clear audio, and four smart receiver methods.
- Mailroom: Optimise delivery management by tracking parcel drop-offs with a simple mobile scan and automatically notifying recipients upon delivery.
- Access Control: Automatically provision or revoke staff credentials via SCIM and SAML integrations. Remotely grant building access and automate door schedules with cloud-based access control.
- Alarms: Deter trespassing and vandalism with camera-based alerts after hours. Verkada Alarms acts as a virtual extension of campus security, with 24/7 professional monitoring and video verification.
- Guest: Simplify visitor check-in at residence halls, student services centres, and alumni offices with a digital visitor management system. Issue digital or physical credentials for time-limited building access.
- Connectivity: Easily deploy Verkada devices with cellular or Wi-Fi gateways in hard-to-wire locations like car parks, gates, fields, and stadiums for reliable access to footage.
- Air Quality Sensors: Set custom alerts for temperature, humidity, and other air quality indicators to help prevent equipment failure, food spoilage, or disruptions to research environments across campus.
- Viewing Station: Stream up to 300 live camera feeds from multiple sites into one centralised location and gain instant visibility across distributed campuses.
Try Verkada for free
Our 30-day free trial includes a device, two-way shipping, and full access to the Command management platform. Learn how we can support your smooth transition to the cloud by bridging non-Verkada devices to our cloud-based system.
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Logos of institutions include: BSU (Bath Spa University), International House Berkeley, Durham College, Temple University Japan Campus, Bowie State University, Craven College, Petroc, and Fashion Retail Academy.
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