Smart Solutions for
School Security
Modernize campus security and empower faster emergency response
Protect Students and Staff
Safeguard campus and protect against threats
Speed up investigations in a privacy-sensitive manner
Quickly find critical footage across campus. Type a description or upload a photo to retrieve relevant video using optional AI-powered analytics. Use history player search to construct a timeline of a person’s appearances across multiple cameras, with timestamped video clips to aid investigations.
Protect student privacy with features such as live face blur and privacy regions when viewing real-time footage, or selective face blur when saving footage for review. Plus, easily specify site-level permissions, controlling which users or groups can access video feeds.
Enhance visitor security
Proactively identify unsafe visitors at the school entrance and deny entry with Verkada Intercom’s in-call person of interest (POI) alerts. Screen visitors upon check-in and run additional searches against sex offender registries and criminal databases using Verkada Guest, a digital visitor management system. Instantly notify campus security when a visitor is added to an auto-deny list, enabling swift intervention.
Stay ahead of perimeter threats
Keep bad actors out with cloud-managed access control. Easily set custom door schedules to restrict building access during school or after hours. Mitigate the risk of after-hours break-ins and vandalism with professional monitoring and video verification, helping to enhance perimeter security and reduce false alarms.
Deter student vaping with proactive alerts
Receive instant SMS alerts when air quality sensors detect vaping on campus. Deploy video monitoring in school hallways or common areas to provide visual context around vape alerts and the students potentially involved. School administrators can view vaping trends over time to analyze patterns and implement long-term solutions.
Accelerate Emergency Response
Enhance coordination with first responders and mitigate risks
Speed up coordination with first responders
Reduce incident response time by granting user access to law enforcement agencies or streaming camera footage directly to their Real-Time Crime Centers (RTCCs) through Verkada’s Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). Share live floorplans and corresponding camera feeds via SMS or a direct link to reveal campus activity hotspots and assist responding officers on-site.
Trigger a one-tap lockdown
Initiate a campus-wide lockdown in a matter of seconds via desktop, mobile app, or a physical panic button, immediately restricting access to school buildings and classrooms. Reduce delays by remotely granting door access to law enforcement personnel, unlocking specific doors while keeping other doors locked.
Monitor school environments
School administrators can analyze historical data from cloud-managed air quality sensors and apply these insights to reduce indoor air pollutants. Receive alerts for abnormal spikes in noise, motion, or temperature on campus, signaling a potential large gathering or student fight.
Improve response for future emergencies
Enhance emergency preparedness in the case of a crisis or urgent medical situation with mounted panic buttons, calling first responders with a single click. Review historical footage from real-life events or past safety drills to assist school safety leaders in future emergency planning.
Optimize Campus Operations
Maximize efficiency and enhance school security
Monitor parking lot incidents
Keep watch over parking lots and nearby streets during busy student pick-ups and drop-offs. Capture license plates of unsafe drivers with powerful License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology and easily share this information with police. Notify school resource officers when flagged vehicles approach the school with license plate of interest (LPOI) alerts.
Manage your physical security with ease
New staff members can download the Verkada Command mobile app, and find, save, and share footage in minutes. An intuitive user interface and plug-and-play installation simplify maintenance and empower lean IT teams by replacing servers and NVRs with cloud-based management across school campuses and buses.
Streamline visitor check-ins and early dismissals
Streamline student tardy tracking and early dismissal sign-outs with a digital visitor management system that integrates with SIS platforms like Clever and ClassLink. Reduce long check-in lines by adding returning visitors to approved guest lists. A returning visitor can check in with a QR code or facial recognition at the front office.
Simplify badge and keycard management
Save time provisioning badges with cloud-based access control. Automatically issue physical badges, EV3 fobs, and mobile keycards to new staff — or instantly revoke them when someone leaves the organization. Quickly generate temporary digital or physical credentials for substitute teachers, observing parents, or contractors using Verkada Guest.
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Video Security
Enhance school security with AI-enabled cameras that record 24/7, are bandwidth-efficient, and store up to 365 days of footage. Choose from models that support privacy-sensitive features including live face blur and privacy regions. Plus, easily monitor campus in real time with Viewing Stations.
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Alarms
Safeguard against trespassing and vandalism with an integrated alarm system of intrusion sensors, alarm panels, keypads, and mounted panic buttons. Reduce false alarms with built-in professional monitoring and video verification.
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Access Control
Automatically provision and revoke staff access credentials through SCIM and SAML integrations. Automate door schedules and restrict building access during school or after hours. Manage door access remotely with support for existing wired locks or wireless locks from Schlage and Assa Abloy.
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Intercom
See who's at the front entrance or vestibule before you let them in. Grant building access to visitors remotely from the front desk. Receive in-call person of interest (POI) alerts if a troublesome visitor returns to campus.
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Air Quality Sensors
Set custom alerts for vape, noise, temperature, CO2, TVOCs, particulate matter, formaldehyde, and other air quality indicators to detect potential health hazards on campus.
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Guest
Streamline the visitor check-in process and enable sex offender and criminal database screenings with a digital visitor management system. Track student tardiness and early dismissals via integrations with Clever and ClassLink.
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Mailroom
Optimize delivery management by tracking package drop-offs with a simple mobile scan and automatically notifying recipients upon delivery.
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Connectivity
Easily install Verkada cameras and devices in hard-to-wire locations like school parking lots, gates, fields, and stadiums with cellular or Wi-Fi gateways.
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$75,000 annual cost-savings
Bob Fishtrom, Director of IT Services
Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District
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50% faster investigations
Robert Berkowitz, Director of Technology, and Napoleon Genereux, Safety & Security Manager
South Washington County Schools
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2X faster incident response
Rafael Cordero, Director of IT Services
The Riviera Ridge School
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10 minutes to configure devices
Jamie Lee Lewsadder, Associate Superintendent of Technology Services
La Cañada Unified School District
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We’re proud to work alongside dedicated school safety leaders to help create environments where students can learn, educators can teach, and families feel confident their schools are safe.
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