As pleasing to the eye as the campus setting may be, however, the wide dispersal of buildings – including some interwoven with surrounding neighborhoods and public streets – can also create a complicated security profile. Fortunately, the university’s security consultant, iXP Corp. of Lawrenceville, N.J., has had experience with academic settings, including Ivy League institutions Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Together with the university’s security team, the company evaluated the campus’ overall public safety and command and control programs in 2005.
“As part of a proactive public safety command and control program, we designed an intelligent security video solution to monitor and analyze high-traffic areas of the campus,” said Lawrence D. Consalvos, senior vice president for iXP. “This strategy, coupled with traditional public safety radio and telephone communications, improves the response times of campus police officers.”