School security has become a paramount concern for law enforcement, parents, faculty, and district administrators nationwide. There have been dozens of school shootings since the beginning of 2018, and the sad reality is there will continue to be more school shootings. How schools prepare for attacks by implementing numerous layers of security saves lives and gives schools and law enforcement the upper hand in mitigating an active shooter situation.

Custom Video Security has been providing video surveillance solutions to schools across the USA for over a decade. In recent years, we have expanded our offerings to include mobile vehicle security cameras on school buses, door access control with video-verification, license plate recognition (LPR), video doorbell/intercom, video analytics with facial recognition, gun-shot/aggression/glass-break detection, walk-through and hand-wand metal detectors, parking lot management, and more. Our security solutions are designed to give schools complete perimeter coverage while offering real-time protection from persons or vehicles of interest before any potential security situation surfaces.

Custom Video Security offers the following free services for schools:

• Create a free camera design map. You will know exactly what you can expect to see before anything is installed, let alone purchased. There are no surprises and no need to take down and return equipment that does not meet your expectations.
• Create a free camera list. This allows anyone in the school’s security or IT department to have a list of cameras, IP addresses, login credentials, locations, viewing areas, and more.
• Setup a secure camera network outside of the school’s main network. This helps prevent unauthorized access to the cameras and does not interfere with the network load from data-heavy megapixel camera systems.
• Setup a secure high-speed wireless network (for cameras to be deployed without running cables to them), even several miles away from the school. This can potentially save over $10,000 in expensive fiber cabling and is very reliable for long-term use.
• Utilize existing camera cable infrastructure to reduce the cost of system upgrades while providing HD CCTV or IP security cameras up to 4K resolution.
• Recommend other various layers of security based on the school or district’s needs.
• Free lifetime Los Angeles-based technical support with access to the same technical salesperson who designs your project–one point of contact makes it easy so that you don’t have to constantly repeat yourself and your situation to multiple people. Access our YouTube video library for on-demand answers to the most frequently asked questions, or call/email/chat with us during business hours if you have a more specific question.

Best of all, since Custom Video Security specializes in equipment only, we can work closely with your school’s/district’s IT/Security/Facilities staff to instruct them on how to properly install the equipment. It’s especially easy if there is any existing cabling infrastructure, which typically only requires swapping the recorder and the cameras. Or we can also recommend qualified local installers across the USA who can install the equipment, provide training, and offer future service to the site.

View a case study of MHLT Elementary School in Wisconsin and their experience using Dahua and Arecont Vision cameras, as well as Milestone XProtect video management software to run on their own virtualized server. MHLT has been an active customer of eDigitalDeals Inc. DBA Custom Video Security since 2010.

Other customers range from individual K-12 schools to K-12 school districts with over a dozen locations to small colleges to the campus housing of a major mid-western university.