K-12 schools, colleges and universities are spending an increasing amount of energy, time and financial resources managing an ever-evolving laundry list of safety concerns and threats challenging the out limits of their current school security system.
- On-campus vaping, THC and drug use.
- Swatting and other hoaxes.
- Guns and other weapons.
- Student fights and student-on-teacher physical assaults.
- Unauthorized access to school buildings.
These common security threats are a growing challenge to schools in metropolitan cities like St. Louis, Missouri, and surrounding school districts throughout its sprawling suburbs and counties, even in less populated communities like Springfield and Alton, Illinois, and Madison, Wisconsin. While the exact nature of these challenges may vary from school district to school district, one constant remains: the increasing need for proactive, technology-driven security services tailored to each school’s specific environment and the security issues they are face on an individual basis.
Advanced Security Technology Solutions
for K-12 Schools, Colleges & Universities
Designing and deploying the best school security systems requires a top local security company with a history of success and expertise, and a strong partnership with the industry’s leading school security manufacturers and suppliers like Axis Communications, Avigilon, Genetec, Evolv, Omnilert and Motorola Solutions. These proven and trusted brands are at the vanguard of school security technology, offering a portfolio of high-performance and reliable hardware and software components that enable schools to successfully execute safety plans, procedures and processes to match their needs.
These are not passive or static school security systems. They are organic, intuitive, AI-driven, technically superior, scalable and reliable.
School Security Camera Video Surveillance
Indoor and outdoor smart security cameras equipped with advanced AI analytics provide school personnel and law enforcement critical real-time visuals of school entry points, hallways, classrooms and common areas—accessible and manageable via secure remote platforms and smart devices.
- Popular school security cameras include multi-head dome cameras, turret, LPR, PTZ, and fisheye security cameras for total coverage of school hallways, classrooms, cafeterias, commons areas, gymnasiums, athletic fields, and school bus loading areas.
- AI intelligent security camera analytics detect motion, unruly crowd gathering, loitering, guns, vaping and even aggressive language that track the movements and whereabouts of intruders while enabling school personnel and police the ability to search through hours of video footage in minutes, download and share video clips.
- Live video feeds enable school resource officers and law enforcement the ability to see and assess escalating situations in real time in order to calculate and execute an appropriate response.
- Schools can choose from more traditional on-premise server systems or take advantage of cloud-managed off-site options, which can enable a broader scope of security system flexibility feasible on more moderate school budgets.
- Off-site, cloud video storage offers remote accessibility and system scalability to meet growing needs and cost-effectiveness by reducing on-site hardware costs, physical space, enhanced security through advanced encryption, and improved communication and collaboration between school administrators, school resource officers and local police officers.
- Manage and monitor multiple cameras and locations from a single dashboard.
- Automatic data back-ups and software updates in the cloud, protecting data from on-site disasters and theft.
Two-Step Authentication
School Access Control Systems
Preventing unauthorized entry is always a major concern for K-12 and higher ed schools in Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin. Senergy can easily add extra layers of protection to decrease your school’s vulnerability to outside intruders while improving school safety plan protocols.
School Access Control System Options to Secure Main Entry Points, Staff-Only Zones and More
- Two-step (two-factor) authentication access control systems require dual verification credentials using ID badges, PIN keypads and mobile phone authentication.
- Integrate your school’s access control system with bell schedules, after-school events, and lockdown procedures.
- Voice and video verification systems leave no doubt as to who is attempting to gain access to your school.
- Take advantage of visitor management tracking by creating temporary credentials for certain visitors and outside contractors.
- Emergency panic buttons with lockdown capabilities. Duress buttons can be strategically located on walls, under desks and countertops, even activated from a computer keyboard. Mobile duress buttons can be worn inconspicuously by school staff and faculty and activated remotely, on or off school property.
- Classroom door locks are quickly becoming an important tool for teachers to protect students in the event of a live shooter situation.
- Classroom intercom systems can be programmed to send emergency alerts to the school office and designated school personnel when the intercom system detects a “safe” keyword spoken by a teacher, e.g., “Help!” or “Gun!” or “Fire!”
School Emergency Notification and Lockdown System
Working with our emergency technology communication partners, Senergy helps schools deploy mass notification systems capable of alerting staff, faculty and law enforcement via video, two-way voice communication, text message, email, electronic signage. RAVE and SentryERS provide browser-based and mobile responsive situational awareness in times of emergency.
- Initiate two-way communication with 911, first responders and on-site personnel.
- District-wide lockdown capabilities.
- Multi-channel alerts (PA, SMS, intercom, email).
- Integrate with school security cameras, video management, radios and access control for an orchestrated emergency response.
- Panic device sends first responders and school staff the security breach’s location, incident type and facility layout.
Gun Detection Inside and Outside School Buildings
Senergy partners with concealed weapons detection system experts, Evolv Technology, and Omnilert, the security industry’s leading security system for detecting visible, brandished, guns—perfect for school building entry points, hallways, cafeterias, commons areas, parking lots, school bus loading areas and athletic fields.
Evolv Express Concealed Gun Detection System
Evolv Express is a walk-through, touchless gun screening system that accommodates up to 4,000 students per hour, so foot traffic does not bottleneck, and students arrive to classes on time.
Evolv Express by the Numbers
Integrate Evolv Express with your school’s existing school access control and video surveillance systems for real-time event assessment. Analytics automatically log data, tracking the number of weapons detected, type of weapon, location of detection, day of week and time of day.
Evolv Express Minimizes School Security Resource Officer Fatigue
Evolv Express’ advanced AI technology helps mitigate the need for security staff to empty backpacks and purses since the location of the firearm is pinpointed on the person and displayed on a monitoring screen. The weapon is also highlighted by a bright red box for school security guards to visually verify. This eliminates guesswork and minimizes tension and anxiety for both students, security personnel, faculty and staff.
This is not true of other systems, like Opengate, which claims to have the technology to specifically detect firearms. But it does not have this advanced AI technology, as does Evolv, so Opengate is simply a traditional metal detector, incapable of differentiating between a real firearm or an ordinary metal object. Its lack of sophisticated technology results in higher false alarms and the need for school security or faculty to hand wand students and search backpacks, every time an alarm is triggered.
Visible Gun Detection Security System for Schools
Omnilert can integrate with your school’s existing security cameras, avoiding costly rip-and-replace, enabling AI analytics that can detect a visible firearm being brandished by a gunman inside or outside school buildings up to 100 feet in distance. An alert is immediately sent to school security officers, administrators and local law enforcement.
Omnilert can also be integrated with your school’s existing access control system to trigger emergency lockdowns, sealing off all entry points into the school.
School Vaping and THC Detection
Student vaping is on the rise and school administrators need high-tech detection tools that perform. HALO Smart Sensor is the perfect detection tool to monitor vape, cigarette and THC smoke in both open commons’ areas, and locker rooms and bathrooms where security cameras are not permitted.
But HALO Smart Sensor by Motorola Solutions, does more than detect vape and THC smoke. HALO also detects poor air quality, and it’s audio analytics can detect abnormal sounds such as glass breaking, gunshots and even aggressive language in a bullying scenario or a fight.
- Real-time alerts sent to staff and security personnel.
- Alerts sent to designated personnel via email or text.
- Plays a pre-recorded message and sounds an alarm.
- Able to connect to HALO Cloud or ANY cloud network system.
- Can integrate with multiple VMS platforms.
- Comprehensive data logging and reporting for behavioral trend tracking.
- An unlimited number of school staff and faculty can be connected to HALO.
Working with Law Enforcement and Emergency Services to Protect Schools
Senergy coordinates with local police departments, sheriffs’ offices, and other first responders in Springfield and Alton, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, and Madison, Wisconsin, and school district administrators, IT directors, staff and SROs when planning, designing and installing the simplest or the most complex school security system.
This is one of the things we do best as a local security company.
Our school security team integrates school security systems that enable law enforcement to view live video feeds and be notified in real time of school emergency alerts, whether that be an active live shooter, bomb threat, fire, or other major security concern. Our team also participates with police in active shooter response drills and school security training sessions, along with school staff and faculty.
School Security Success Stories and Community Trust
We’re proud of the trusted relationships our team has developed with school districts, community leaders and law enforcement across Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin, helping schools problem solve retrofitting new security systems and components within aging school building infrastructures, to working side-by-side with architects and building engineers when creating CAD drawing specs for school security system wiring, access control RFID placements, security camera installation locations and cloud networking.
Senergy consistently delivers reliable and future-proof school security solutions to protect students, staff and faculty 24-7-365.
What do Schools Say About Senergy?
Senergy’s Trusted School Security Technology Partners
For us to achieve our goal of delivering consistent, high-performing school security solutions, we maximize our long-standing and trusted partnerships with the industry’s leading school security hardware and software manufacturers and suppliers. Most of whom you probably already know: Genetec, Avigilon, Motorola Solutions, Axis Communications, Evolv Technology Omnilert, HALO Smart Sensors, SentryERS Emergency Systems, RAVE.
These trusted partners allow us to build scalable, unified school security systems that integrate seamlessly with your school’s existing security infrastructure.
Why Choose Senergy as Your Top School Security Company?
At a time when school safety concerns are at an all-time high, Senergy works diligently with school districts, and colleges and universities throughout Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin designing, installing and servicing custom security systems that ensure reliability, scalability, and that align with each school district’s safety plan, security goals and existing infrastructure.
Senergy provides the tools and expertise to support K-12 schools and higher ed administrators, IT leaders, and school resource officers (SROs) in reaching their security goals.
- Trusted history working with K-12 schools and colleges in Missouri and Illinois.
- Trained, certified and licensed school security system designers and engineers, and 49 service and installation technicians.
- Active partnerships with local law enforcement.
- Participation in school safety training programs.
- Documented success in providing problem-solving solutions.
- Continuous technical service and support, both remote and in the field.
- Longterm partnerships with the school security industry’s leading hardware and software manufacturers and suppliers.
