Allowing easy access to extensive campus facilities while protecting both people and the university’s many physical assets required a robust, integrated, intelligent security system. The system had to be complex enough to provide varying levels of security where needed, yet easy to use. Tying together the university’s many security systems was a must.
Several thefts within the School of Arts and Science and the School of Business spurred us to take the initial first step of installing a large security video system on campus. Proposed was a GE digital system. Barry Komisar, president of Vision Southeast and a University of Alabama graduate, bid on the job and ultimately won the contract to install the first of many GE systems on campus. There now are alarmed recorders that can be viewed throughout campus over a fiber optic network system.