Security Sales & Integration

September2013

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VERTICAL MARKETS: EDUCATION HIGH-END SOLUTION SATISFIES HIGHER ED REQUIREMENTS PHOTO COURTESY UNIV. OF KENTUCKY By Rodney Bosch The University of Kentucky is investing $5 million to renovate decades-old standalone legacy systems. A unifed security management platform serves as the linchpin, tying together video surveillance, access control credentials and emergency call stations into a centralized security system. Find out how the integrator is leading a highly coordinated project to make it all happen. T he majority of the 41,000 students, faculty and staf members that ply the University of Kentucky (UK) are today toting newly issued ID credentials. Tese are multitechnology badges that provide centralized access control for dormitories and hundreds of other buildings. Strolling the tree-lined walkways on campus, they will notice blue emergency notifcation towers have also been erected over summer break. As well, numerous IP-based video surveillance cameras are newly mounted on facilities across the 900-acre campus, located in the urban core of Lexington. Te ID cards, blue towers and surveillance cameras amount to but a hint of the exhaustive security renovation 108 / SECURITYSALES.COM / SEPTEMBER 2013 the university has undertaken since launching the $5 million project in March. While work on phase one of the project will continue through the end of the year, a momentous deadline has been achieved. As classrooms began flling on Aug. 28, the frst day of the fall semester, the proverbial switch had already been thrown to bring on line a state-of-the-art unifed security management system. Some context is in order to illustrate how far the university has traveled these past several months in its mission to modernize its security systems. Anthany Beatty, the university's assistant vice president for public safety, served as a police ofcer on campus during the early 1970s before joining the

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