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HIGHER EDUCATION CASE STUDY Eventually more than 3,000 camSTANDARDIZED SOLUTION eras, including a mix of pan/tilt/ RUNS ON ELABORATE zoom and f xed types, are expected FIBER NETWORK to provide comprehensive coverage Operating on its own secure across the campus. wide area network (WAN), the "Tis is a multiyear, multiphase unifed security system is conproject and we well have to fgure nected by an elaborate fber-optics out how to fund those as we get to backbone managed by UK's Central them," Beatty says. "But the frst Network Services (CNS). Registered phase is the biggest phase because Communications Distribution Deit sets the tone from this point forsigner (RCDD)-designated techniward. It sets the standards for new cians run fber to the edge from construction and infrastructure outdoor distribution switches. Te installed in the buildings and the distribution switches are utilized unifed concept of a single security at every end point so the network Under the new security renovation, residence halls are platform." can be monitored out to every debeing equipped with seven exterior and seven interior While establishing centralized IP-based megapixel cameras. At the conclusion of the vice, including outdoor and indoor control of security operations was project, more than 3,000 cameras are expected to be cameras. a primary goal of the makeover, it installed campus wide. Typically, one rack-mounted also presented a considerable chalGateway appliance has been inlenge for administrators. Users of the standalone legacy access stalled per building in a secure, temperature-controlled and video systems in the individual buildings had long grown communication closet, along with access control panels and accustomed to controlling their own systems. Much politick- various auxiliary equipment. ing ensued to decide which entity would take the lead before "Tat is not necessarily how it has to be done but it is the the UK Police Department eventually emerged. Te depart- way UK decided to do it so they don't overload the Gateways ment was already handling cameras, access control and IDs with cameras or card access doors," explains Pyles. at a health-care facility. Now it solely manages the issuance of In conjunction with on-site deployment of NLSS Cloud cards, video storage, retrieval and monitoring, among other Services, the distributed Gateways send video to centralized responsibilities for the new solution. cloud-based storage. Te services enable remote access and "I'm not aware of another university in the U.S. that is inte- multisite security management from any location via a Web grating multiple platforms of access control, video cameras, browser interface. emergency notifcation and ID cards into one comprehensive "We require a gigabit port for the [Gateway] devices to security system," says UK Police Chief Joe Monroe. "It is a communicate on so there are no bottlenecks or latency iscontinually evolving process as we move forward restructur- sues," says Leon Johnson, ADS' east central regional proing diferent units within the police department to manage gram manager. "We also have 10-gig up to the backbone. this system long-term." It provides the proper amount of throughput we need for LAYERING IN EARLY WARNING COMMUNICATIONS M The security renovation at University of Kentucky includes emergency alert notifcations using Talk-A-Phone emergency call stations. 112 issing from the University of Kentucky's security measures prior to its recent renovation were robust campus-wide public address capabilities. That shortcoming has been resolved with the addition of about 25 Talk-A-Phone emergency call stations. The units include a pan/tilt/zoom dome camera mounted to a camera arm above the tower, which can be activated through the emergency phone. Concealed high-power speakers provide 360ยบ coverage. The university uses an emergency notifcation solution by InformaCast to reach an unlimited number of phones with text and live or pre-recorded audio messages. Notifcations can be sent to a wide variety of endpoint devices to reach students, faculty, staff and visitors with life-safety information. The towers are IP-based and tied into the university's IP phone system, explains Brad Pyles, vice president of business development for Advanced Digital Solutions, a systems integrator contracted with the university. "The emergency call towers are integrated into the InformaCast system so you can not only make an emergency call and get positions from that, but you can also send out an emergency notifcation announcement at 120dBs at 300 feet," he says. / SECURITYSALES.COM / SEPTEMBER 2013