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University Security Systems

Universities require advanced, agile security systems that protect students and personnel from threats and safeguard assets and materials, with risks ranging from intrusions to vandalism, thefts to break-ins, and targeted criminal activity.

Clearway’s university security specialists create solutions based on expert insights tailored to each campus, layout, and risk profile to deliver safe, fully controlled educational environments that uphold the highest levels of safety and preemptive protection.

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university security systems

We offer:

  • Bespoke university security systems, designed around campus layouts, resources, risk profiles, threats and the need to promote safe, welcoming and reassuring settings for students, staff and visitors.
  • Blended physical and technological security, with options such as access controls, continual CCTV surveillance, always-on intrusion detection and responsiveness.
  • Access to our NSI Gold Cat II accredited ARC facility, where a cutting-edge response team manages and supervises the investigations and reactions to all manner of alerts.
  • Proactive defences, deterring crimes such as theft, and warning prospective intruders that your campus, halls or dorms are fully supervised and protected.
  • Targeted university security systems for high-risk zones, including labs, storage bays and areas where flammables, medical supplies or tech assets attract thefts.
  • Compliance advisory support, ensuring universities maintain their reputations as spaces that prioritise the safety and security of faculty and alums.
  • Agile flexibility, with options to upgrade, reform or reposition security systems when threats and security risks change or evolve.
  • Comprehensive integrations, making the best use of legacy security assets and combining the effectiveness of alarms, surveillance and access controls through central control boards or remote access facilities.

Our University Security Systems

Visitor management system

Visitor Management for Universities

University visitor management streamlines entry and exit logs for verified, authorised visitors. The focus is on ensuring there are continually updated records that reflect access permissions granted and identify the personnel or students escorting each visitor. Visitor management systems can also be configured to automatically print visitor badges stating the areas they are approved to access.

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University Access Controls

Cutting-edge access controls facilitate easy, quick entry for known students, staff, and visitors while preventing any vehicle or individual without approval from accessing the campus.

Options include biometric, facial recognition, and ANPR scanning, creating autonomous entry points that prevent unauthorised people from gaining entry at any time of day or night and activating electric fences, security doors, or bollards.

AI crowd control and people analytics

CCTV for Universities

Advanced CCTV deters opportunist thefts and intrusions while safeguarding the well-being of all on-site. It uses the latest capabilities to detect activities outside of the norm, such as repeat visits, loitering, or movements that indicate potential scouting or intention to cause harm. Immediate alerts preempt possible issues and direct on-site security teams accordingly.

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University Intruder Alarms

Alarm systems initiate rapid alerts when covert or deliberate trespass attempts are detected, from forcing locks or doors to bypassing access controls. The speed and precision of alarm activations ensure that security teams and emergency services can intervene quickly and have the information they need to protect campuses and university outbuildings.

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Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)

ANPR is prevalent in university campuses and car parking facilities, scanning vehicle number plates on approach and cross-checking the status of each to determine whether they have the appropriate authority to enter. Personnel can log expected delivery vehicles, and students can add invited guests with the peace of mind that unknown vehicles will be prevented from accessing the site.

CCTV Analytics

University Crowd Controls AI

Higher-volume events, awards, and fixtures can attract large crowds, requiring ongoing supervision to ensure health and safety and well-managed foot traffic flows are implemented.

Crowd control surveillance can flag the early signs of queues, bottlenecks, and crowds forming, preventing tensions, safety risks, and unwanted gatherings.

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AI-Enabled University Security Systems

Many of the most impactful university security systems incorporate AI-enabled cameras and deep learning functionality, which provides the added benefit of preemptive warnings when anything suspicious or high-risk is identified. This can range from dropped objects and loitering to tension and aggression, keeping campuses safeguarded from a broad range of threats.

What Do We Protect Against?

Universities vary considerably in size, layout and location, which means that the ideal security strategy is designed specifically for the vulnerabilities and key risks in place.

However, we’ve summarised below some of the prevalent security threats that universities rely on their systems to prevent.

Theft and Vandalism

Crimes such as theft of university assets, vandalism of buildings and lecture halls, and break-ins in student lodgings can cause concern and panic. Advanced, effective security systems prevent such incidents from occurring and uphold high standards of campus safety.

Trespassing and Unauthorised Access

Students often experience intrusions, loitering, and harassment, which means that advanced security systems may be essential to protect halls and university buildings while preventing unknown visitors from gaining entry.

Unrest and Overcrowding

Universities are often the site of demonstrations and protests, but the facility is responsible for preventing risks to safety. Surveillance can identify larger-scale gatherings or hostilities that require de-escalation before they threaten student welfare.

Illicit Substances

AI-enabled security systems provide behavioural analytics that can identify anomalies that point to drug-related activities and other criminal movements, providing security teams with intelligence to stop these events before they become a serious issue.

Aggression and Violence

Tension, disputes, and conflicts can erupt, sometimes related to former students or those who disagree with lecturers or university policies. Being able to determine when an interaction is likely to result in violence or where there is an indication of an offensive weapon can help de-escalate and calm scenarios before they become critical security incidents.

Of course, if you have varied risks and vulnerabilities you need to mitigate or eradicate, you are welcome to contact Clearway’s accomplished teams for more direct advice about the best ways to manage your risk profile.

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Why Choose Clearway for University Security Systems?

The challenges related to university security can be complex, with considerations around data protection security and physical safeguards, defending the rights of staff and students to move around the campus freely while protecting them from intrusions and criminal threats.

Our experienced security advisers always recommend a personalised risk appraisal to identify the university site’s structure, needs, and risks. This ensures that we provide tailored recommendations that align with your priorities and bring all established risks and threats to an acceptable level.

Frequently asked questions

Universities have a unique risk profile. Young adult students have autonomy over their schedules and activities, yet they often remain vulnerable to targeted criminal activity, thefts, and break-ins and require diligent oversight to safeguard their well-being and safety.

This is why the right security approach is always customised, respecting data privacy and confidentiality while defending university campuses and dorms from illegal entry, intrusions, break-ins, assaults, harassment, and all manner of unwanted behaviours that can impact student welfare, staff safety, and university reputations.

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