How a sprawling northern Virginia campus taps proactive analytics to monitor its access control solution.
Leveraging a one-card campus-wide physical security and identification system, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) students attend a sprawling array of campuses and centers traversing Alexandria and the surrounding areas of Virginia. The second largest community college in the U.S. and one of the largest public educational institutions in Virginia, NOVA continues to add and update its access control, focusing on upgrading power for continued guaranteed reliability. Critical to the ongoing project is being able to obtain 100 percent visibility into system and power health.
NOVA, part of the Virginia Community College System, wanted the ability to proactively preempt system failure or degradation of electronic openings—and it turned to managed power to get the job done. With six campuses located in Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield and Woodbridge as well as centers of learning in Manassas and Reston, it’s a large area for the Information Technology Support Services Department to cover. Managing physical security and access control campus solution with an abbreviated staff, the IT Department wanted to be able to perform remote monitoring and maintenance to save time and manpower traveling to different sites to address potential system challenges.