Occidental College Upgrades to Onity Locking System

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Occidental College is upgrading its current locking system to Onity's Integra 5, a highly-specialized security lock designed for college campuses. The Integra 5 system offers individually customized access privileges to specific doors, along with any associated time and date parameters. The system greatly reduces the cost of installation by eliminating the need for expensive wiring to offline door

Prominent American University Secures New Facility with L-1 4G Fingerprint Readers

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While the use of biometrics in higher education is still relatively a new concept in North America, it has seen success in the few facilities it has been implemented in. The latest educational institution to implement a biometric access control solution is considered to be one of the top research universities in the world. By day, over 40,000 students roam the campus grounds and by night over 10,0

VideoIQ Takes Care of Onondaga Central School District

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Nestled in a valley with rural surroundings, the Onondaga Central School District is located in picturesque upstate New York, just seven miles outside of Syracuse. Despite its tranquil environment, the school district's administration wanted to help ensure that students and staff would be safe at all times while on school property. To that end, the district sought an intelligent video surveillance

Axis Network Cameras Elude Mischievous Behavior at US High School

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The school district's technology coordinator and network administrator began lobbying for surveillance cameras in the Taos High School, New Mexico, to avert the usual mischief that high school teens get into. But with the building being used by the University of New Mexico for evening classes, after hours security was another area of concern. Coupled with the fact that the high school housed an en

TDS Provides UK University with Student Attendance Solution

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Southampton Solent University selected TDS' student attendance solution following a tendering process.

Promise Storage Equipment Hosted at Taiwanese Research Center

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The Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center (ASGC) hosts a Tier-1 center in Taiwan where performance is critical for day-to-day operations. ASGC demands low-latency reliable storage devices, yet has limited rack space to expand. By using Promise data storage, ASGC scaled up to approximately 2.3 petabytes (PB) of hard-disk storage in its data center. By tuning the computing grid, ASGC enabled the gri

Surveon Storage Devices Back up Taiwanese University Captured Images

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Kainan University, founded in 2000, is located in Taoyuan, Taiwan. It occupies an open area of nearly 17 hectares, and has 2500 students, 25 departments, 16 graduate schools and four master programs.

Scottish Communications Updates UK School Surveillance System

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Following the success of the installation of surveillance at its Junior School, St Columba's in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire has extended and upgraded its surveillance to cover all parts of the campus.

Colombian University Deploys Axis Network Cameras

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Sabana University was founded in 1979 and has been growing steadily to become one of the most prestigious higher education institutions in the country, receiving the High Quality Institutional Accreditation (Acreditación Institucional de Alta Calidad), in 2006. The institution has also strengthened its physical environment which has a campus in Bogota's savannah (among other locations), equipped w

Wavestore Upgrades UK School Surveillance to Combat Campus Violence

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Like many schools in the U.K., Penglais Secondary School relies on its surveillance system as a valuable tool to help enforce its zero tolerance policy on bullying and any form of criminal activity, such as vandalism and theft. Situated in the town of Aberystwyth in West Wales, Penglais Secondary School, which was established in 1973, provides education to more than 1,350 pupils aged between f