How to Design a Security Camera System for a School
No longer can educational institutions ignore security issues. An incident can mean negative publicity, decreased enrollment, and expensive lawsuits. To ensure comprehensive protection, check out our School Security Systems Best Practice Guide for detailed strategies on enhancing safety measures. In the floorplan below, you will see how proper camera placement could benefit your school or institution.
Explanation
Goals: Help set goals for your school to decrease or eliminate bullying by placing security cameras throughout the hallways and crowded areas. Also, mounting cameras near the entrances and exits can diminish truancy. For after hours, security cameras can help catch vandals who may damage or steal school property.
The Red cones represent the Deputy 2.0 camera. This camera is ideal for a corner of a room, or hallway because it does 110 degrees of coverage. It will also recognize someone up to 40ft with its 2MP resolution.
The Green cones show you how far away you can recognize someone with the Warrior 4.0. This camera will recognize someone up to 75ft away with its 4MP resolution. The field of view is 80 degrees of coverage, so its a good camera for mounting outdoors on a wall to see entrances and exits.
The Yellow cones located around the money, and smaller rooms, are showing the Sheriff 4.0. Doing 101 degrees of coverage, the Sheriff 4.0 will recognize someone up to 50ft away with its 4MP resolution.
The Turquoise circle located in the auditorium is the Radius 12.0. This camera does a 360 degree fisheye view. The camera can record in 6MP at 25fps, or 12MP at 15fps.
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The Deputy 2.0 - 26DF2 - 2MP (1080P) Fixed Wide Angle Lens Turret Dome Camera
Resolution
1080P @ 30 FPS; 1920 × 1080
Detect: 75 ft
Recognize: 40 ft
Identify: 20 ft
Processing Power and Compression: Not All 1080P Cameras are Created Equal
Indoor/Outdoor
IP67
Full protection from dust, rain, snow, dew, frost, and sprinklers.
You can even submerge it for a few minutes.
Temp
Temperature rated from -31°F to 140 °F
Humidity rated between 10 and 95%.
Day/Night
Infrared night vision up to 100 FT
Color video possible until 0.02 lux
The Deputy is our second most popular camera model. It is tied with the Warrior in terms of how easy it is to install and position, since neither camera requires you to remove any part of the camera to screw it into the wall/ceiling/soffit. This makes it ideal for outdoor use as you don't have a tendency to trap moisture in the lens, as is common with dome cameras, where you have to remove the outer glass dome to mount them. The 110 or 118 degree lens is best used to cover an entire room at once (by installing it in a corner) or to cover a wide area of a smaller yard, as wider lenses always decrease how far away you can identify a person of license plate. Although you can use this camera inside or out, the most common uses of the Deputy models (the camera comes in 2MP, 4MP, or 4K variants) are to install the camera in the corner of a room or to cover front doors and porches outdoors. Two Deputies are often installed back to back to make a 220-236 degree view, such as in the middle of a wall. (This two camera solution has less of that dizzying "fisheye" look that is common with 180 degree cameras and is also usually cheaper.)
Sample Photos taken by the Deputy 2.0. Click to enlarge the images. Press ESC key to close.
10 FT | 20 FT | 50 FT | 75 FT | 100 FT |
Detect someone up to 75 feet
"Detecting" a face means being able to tell that a human face is in the picture.
Recognize someone up to 40 feet
"Recognizing" a face refers to being able to say "I have seen that person before" - even if you don't know or can't place who it is.
Identify someone up to 20 feet
"Identification" refers to being able to make out identifiable marks with enough certainty to make a sketch or claim.
The Warrior 4.0 - 26BF4 - 4MP (2x1080P) Fixed Lens Mini Bullet Camera
Indoor/Outdoor
IP67
Full protection from dust, rain, snow, dew, frost, and sprinklers.
You can even submerge it for a few minutes.
Temp
Temperature rated from -31°F to 140 °F
Humidity rated between 10 and 95%.
Lens
Fixed: 3.6mm
80.8° of coverage (horizontal)
Digital Zoom Only
Learn about Digital vs Optical Zoom
Day/Night
Infrared night vision up to 100 FT
Color video possible until 0.02 lux
The Warrior is our most popular camera model. It is tied with the Deputy in terms of how easy it is to install and position, since neither camera requires you to remove any part of the camera to screw it into the wall/ceiling/soffit. This makes it ideal for outdoor use as you don't have a tendency to trap moisture in the lens, as is common with dome cameras, where you have to remove the outer glass dome to mount them. The 81 degree lens is great balance between covering a large area and identifying faces and license plates. Although you can use this camera inside or out, the most common use of the Warrior models (the camera comes in 2MP, 4MP, or 8MP) is to cover the side of buildings or large sections of yards.
Sample Photos taken by the Warrior 4.0. Click to enlarge the images. Press ESC key to close.
10 FT | 20 FT | 50 FT | 75 FT | 100 FT |
Detect someone up to 150 feet
"Detecting" a face means being able to tell that a human face is in the picture.
Recognize someone up to 75 feet
"Recognizing" a face refers to being able to say "I have seen that person before" - even if you don't know or can't place who it is.
Identify someone up to 50 feet
"Identification" refers to being able to make out identifiable marks with enough certainty to make a sketch or claim.
The Sheriff 4.0 - 26DF4-IK10 - 4MP (2x1080P) Vandal Proof Fixed Wide Angle Lens IK10 Dome Camera
Resolution
4MP @ 25 FPS: 2560 x 1440
Detect: 115 ft
Recognize: 50 ft
Identify: 35 ft
Processing Power and Compression: Not All 4MP Cameras are Created Equal
Weather
IP67
Full protection from dust, rain, snow, dew, frost, and sprinklers.
You can even submerge it for a few minutes.
Temp
Temperature rated from -31°F to 140 °F
Humidity rated between 10 and 95%.
Day/Night
Infrared night vision up to 100 FT
Color video possible until 0.02 lux
Special
IK10 (highest possible rating) Physical Damage Protection
True Wide Dynamic Range (120dB)
The Sheriff is very similar to our Deputy model - except that it has a 1K10 vandal proof glass dome surrounding the lens. Glass domes are iconic and what people usually think of with a security camera, but the glass has benefits and drawbacks. Despite our logo being a glass dome camera shape, most of our models don't have them anymore because they aren't that DIY friendly. To install most glass dome cameras, you have to remove the outer dome to reveal the mounting screws and then screw the dome back on after mounting the camera. In more humid areas, this can trap moisture inside the camera; for this reason, most glass dome cameras are installed indoors. The Deputy comes with some silicon moisture absorbing beads to help combat this issue (please don't remove them). Glass domes are sometimes used outdoors especially in situations like college campuses or apartment complexes where "non-destructive vandalism," such as turning the camera away from its intended target, is common. Glass domes do not hide which way the camera is pointed. IK10 is the highest measurement rating for protection from physical damage for security camera products, so it should protect against some destructive vandalism as well.
Sample Photos taken by the Sheriff 4.0. Click to enlarge the images. Press ESC key to close.
10 FT | 20 FT | 50 FT | 75 FT | 100 FT |
Detect someone up to 115 feet
"Detecting" a face means being able to tell that a human face is in the picture.
Recognize someone up to 50 feet
"Recognizing" a face refers to being able to say "I have seen that person before" - even if you don't know or can't place who it is.
Identify someone up to 35 feet
"Identification" refers to being able to make out identifiable marks with enough certainty to make a sketch or claim.
The Radius 8.0 - 26P8 - 8MP 360° Fisheye Dome Camera
Resolution
Unconventional Aspect Ratio!
6MP @ 25 FPS: 3008*3000
12MP @ 15 FPS: 4000*3000
Weather
IP66
Full protection from dust, rain, snow, dew, frost, and sprinklers.
You can wash it off with a hose.
Temp
Temperature rated from -22°F ~ 140°F
Humidity rated between 10 and 95%.
Lens
Fisheye: 1.8mm
360° of coverage
Day/Night
Infrared night vision up to 65 FT
Color video possible until 0.06 lux
Special
Built-in microphone & speaker, two-way talk supported
Up to five stream options
1 Full Res Fisheye OR 1 Fisheye & 4 ePTZs OR 1 Fisheye and 1 Panorama
IK10
Digital WDR
The Radius has is a fisheye 360 degree camera. The Radius is often used in office environments where it is installed in the middle of the room where it can look into several cubicles at once. The Radius can record at 12MP (about 1.5 4K or 6x 1080P). Because it is a 360 degree camera, it records a circular image. This image is usually then dewarped into Panorama views or ePTZ (digital pan tilt zoom) views (see below for samples). Each Panoramic or ePTZ view can be recorded independently of the fisheye circular view, but because dewarping takes processing power, it will use a camera channel on your NVR for each view that you want to view/record. The Radius also has an an integrated microphone and speaker. It should be able to pick up a normal speaking voice at 15 feet. Unlike recording video, recording audio is heavily regulated. It is very important when recording audio to follow the rules and regulations set out in the Federal Wiretap Act; because of this law, the microphone's default setting is "off." If you want to turn the microphone on, we will gladly help you, but you should make sure you are complying with the law before doing so.
Sample Photos taken by the Radius. Click to enlarge the images. Press ESC key to close.
Installed on a Horizontal surface (like a ceiling tile or, in this case about two stories up in our rafters).
How it was Installed | Fisheye view | ePTZ | Panorama |
Installed on a Vertical surface (like a wall).
How it was Installed | Fisheye view | ePTZ | Panorama |
Installed on a Corner.
How it was Installed | Fisheye view | Panorama |
If this is not your exact scenario, you would need to modify our pre-made systems slightly. This is very easy to do.
We've listed a 16 channel pre-made system below. You could add that to the cart, which will break it up into its individual parts, and then modify the numbers of each camera. If all of this seems like to much trouble, we can also send you a custom quote as well.
*If you would like a camera with a 360 degree fisheye view, you can add in the Radius 12.0 model.
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