Education

Creating Safe Schools

Keeping our schools safe and our students focused on learning have become top priorities for teachers, parents, and communities nationwide. That’s because threats to school safety and security continue to rise. Today’s staff and teachers are not only responding to everyday incidents, such as hallway altercations or minor health situations, but also critical situations.

Communications and safety technology is evolving to help schools meet these security challenges and ensure that students feel secure, supported, and ready to learn at all times. Motorola envisions a world where technology works seamlessly together to respond to everyday emergencies while also recognizing patterns, anticipating actions and preventing situations before they escalate.

Motorola Solutions has made this vision a reality by building a safety & security ecosystem that integrates critical communications, video security, data and analytics on one common operating platform – giving schools the systems they need to detect, analyze, communicate and respond to unfolding incidents or threats. The same technology that keeps your team and facility safe also makes you better at everything you do. These fundamental technologies keep your facility connected and operations efficient – providing the assurance of safety you need so students and staff can focus on their learning and development.

Motorola’s Safer Schools integrated ecosystem helps schools meet security needs and requirements at all levels, from the district-wide layer all the way down to the individual classrooms. Following the Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS K-12) “Layers of Protection”, below explores how Motorola Solutions technology fits into each layer.

An Integrated Technology Ecosystem

Technology unified by a common platform built to empower you to address the unique challenges of your school.

Safety & Security Ecosystem helps K-12 campuses

Property & parking lots

What are your campus safety needs?

• Identify and have full visibility into dangerous driving or unwanted vehicles entering school campus
• Instantly know of late-night visitors, loitering and other unusual activity
• Identify individuals entering off-site facility entries like gates, fields, sheds or storage
• Rapidly send critical information to parents, staff, school district & / public safety
• Receive alerts of threats or concerning sounds on your school's entire property
• Enable direct communication between local or campus public safety & school security staff

Entrances

What are your safety needs at the entrances of your school?

• Deter aggressive individuals while providing full visibility to key contacts
• Have full visibility and control over all entry points to your school - on a single platform
• Give students & staff streamlined access to help
• Unify teams by keeping track of where your staff are, both inside and outside the school
• Keep school safe with alerts for dangers, intruders, and suspicious noises

In building

What safety needs do you have throughout your hallways?

• Secure, instant staff communication over traditional, reliable radio networks
• Secure, instant staff communication across devices via cellular networks
• Centralized coordination and management of personnel and resources
• Coordinate safety efforts and situational awareness from a central resource hub
• Efficiently handle technology and processes with emergency response recommendations
• Effortlessly manage student and staff incidents, tasks and audits in one place
• Monitor for suspicious sounds, vaping, smoke, and banned substances in various locations

Security at the district

Technology integration and coordination at the district-wide level is essential to ensure the safety and security of the people accessing a variety of facilities on a daily basis.

School district safety & security elements include:

Anonymous Reporting
Bus Security - Radios
Broadband push-to-talk
Communications interoperability
Emergency Communication System
Mass Notification System
Standardized Video Surveillance Cameras and Management System
Two-Way Radio System

Security at the property perimeter

The property perimeter begins at the exterior of the school building and extends to the parking lot. Facilities in the property perimeter might include playgrounds, stadiums, sports fields and other common outdoor areas that may be used by the public after school hours. Your school’s security should begin at the property perimeter to ensure you can detect, analyze, communicate and respond to unfolding incidents or potential threats before they reach the school building.

Property perimeter safety & security elements include:

Broadband push-to-talk
Communications interoperability
Gates With Electronic Card Access
License Plate Recognition
Situational awareness
Two-Way Radio System
Video Security Cameras
Virtual Video Surveillance Fence

Security at the parking lot

Many activities take place in the parking lot - students, staff and visitors park their vehicles or arrive and depart by bus or other means of transportation. This highly trafficked area should be monitored for common safety issues including falls, car accidents, dangerous driving, theft, vandalism and more. Knowing who should - and shouldn’t - be in your parking lot is a valuable component of your safety and security strategy.

Parking lot safety & security elements include:

Advanced Analytics: object recognition, unusual motion detection
Broadband push-to-talk
Communications interoperability
License Plate Recognition
Situational awareness
Two-Way Radio System
Video Security Cameras

Security at the building perimeter

The building perimeter includes the entire exterior of the building and all entrances and exits. Key security functions take place at this level and can range from simple to complex depending on the layout and the number of buildings on the campus.

Building perimeter safety & security elements include:

Access Control
Advanced Analytics: object recognition, unusual motion detection
Broadband push-to-talk
Communications interoperability
Decision management
Situational awareness
Two-Way Radios
Video Security Cameras
Weapons Detection

Security at the classroom/interior

The classroom/interior consists of all of the spaces located inside the school including not only classrooms but also the gymnasium, cafeteria, media center, theater, common spaces, and more. These areas are commonly the last layer of protection and defense against external threats but also the first layer of protection against internal threats to students, staff and visitors.

Classroom/interior safety & security elements include:

Access Control
Advanced Analytics: object recognition, unusual motion detection
Body Worn Cameras
Collaboration
Communications interoperability
Dispatch consoles
Duress/Panic Button
Incident management
Mass Notification
Situational awareness
Two-Way Radios
Vape Detection
Video Security Cameras