St Dunstan?s, a co-ed independent day school with more than 1,000 pupils and staff, is harnessing CCTV-based technology to combat incidents of theft and identify intruders on school property.
St Dunstan?s, a co-ed independent day school with more than 1,000 pupils and staff, is harnessing CCTV-based technology to combat incidents of theft and identify intruders on school property. Already a believer in the benefits of CCTV to protect people and property, St Dunstan?s has replaced its existing five-camera black and white system and VHS video recording with a colour system featuring CCTVware digital recording technology from Loronix Information Systems. Ron Elliot, assistant bursar at the school says: ?Our old system was useful up to a point, but suffered from poor picture quality. Recorded images on video were often difficult to discern, and not very helpful to the police. the videos had been re-recorded so many times, that the picture quality suffered as a result. We were convinced of the benefits of CCTV overall. It is a useful deterrent and gives children, their parents and our staff increased confidence about their security. What we needed, however, was a more effective system that gave us higher picture quality and where we didn?t have to remember to change the video everyday!? The school decided to invest some œ60,000 in a new system installed by Link Security comprising some 16 fixed and controllable cameras, mounted at various strategic points around the site. This includes all of the major entry and exit points, the main school gates, the playgrounds and the perimeter.
