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Officer Customizes Monitor Views to Improve Security
Mark McKenney, senior security officer for Manchester High School especially likes that the intuitive NVR used by his district allows him to custom-organize the mosaic of streaming video that he watches on his high-definition monitor.
“I can watch feeds from all 46 cameras at the high school simultaneously,” he explains. “And I can arrange them to appear on the display in the way that I like to monitor each area of the school.”
For example, McKenney arranges the camera feeds from the second floor in a horizontal sequence that allows him to track someone walking down the hall from one camera’s field of view to another.
The NVR gives users the flexibility to organize the viewing mosaic by camera number, name or location. The VMS also time stamps recorded video to speed archive retrieval in an investigation. Administrators can copy video clips to CD for law enforcement or their own files, as well as print still images of a particular frame.
Other features that the district has found especially useful include setting pan/tilt/zoom cameras on tour duty to rotate at specific intervals to cover high-traffic areas like the school parking lots. “The nice feature of the network video recorder is that we can program the cameras to automatically return to guard tour if someone temporarily interrupts the rotation to look at an event in progress,” shares Dr. Bob Pease, K-12 instructional technology specialist for Manchester Public Schools.
Steve Sleicher is the chief operating officer for IPVideo Corp.
