Ohio High School Goes High Tech
School Officials Had Taste of IP Video Before Project Began
Jackson Local is comprised of six buildings — four elementary schools, a middle school and a high school. In 2005, Jackson Local School District began a large building renovation project at its high school facility that has effectively increased its size by 50 percent — from 310,000 to 460,000 square feet.
“This is a new addition with two renovations. The new building was Phase 1. Phase 2 started after Christmas 2006 when they moved the students into the new building,” says Arthur Morrison, operations manager with ProTech. “Later this summer we’ll start Phase 3 to complete the existing building in the fall of 2007.”
One of the things that caused Jackson school officials to go with a full IP solution was the fact that traditional analog systems can sometimes fall short in providing clear, concise images. “There’s no denying that we did have trouble identifying students and events with our previous [analog] video system,” says Doug Winkler, business manager for Jackson High School. “The IP video system we now have has proven itself capable of providing extremely detailed images that make it easier for us to work with.”
Before the renovation project began, the existing portion of the high school was equipped with a CCTV system comprised of 32 analog cameras and two 16-channel DVRs. That system might have simply been expanded with additional cameras, rather than replaced, had ProTech Security not provided Jackson Local school officials with a taste of what digital IP video can do.
“Instead of installing another DVR and a number of analog cameras to fill the immediate need, we suggested that they take a look at a Mobotix IP camera,” says Morrison, who designed the new IP-based system. “We started Jackson High School with the Mobotix D10-D-Secure dome series camera and we recorded them to network-attached storage [NAS] they had on the network.”
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