VIVOTEK Secures the Campus of National Center for International Schools and Assists Local Police with Safety Incidents

The National Center for International Schools (NCIS) houses both the Chinese American International School and French American International School in San Francisco. Both these schools are pre-kindergarten through 12th grade and pride themselves on rigorous academic training, combined with cultural awareness and investigation.

Security concerns in and around the perimeter of the school have become a challenge, and deploying security cameras in strategic positions to deter inappropriate conduct and preserve potential evidence for reported incidents has become of prime importance.
With its many students and staffs at the schools, exterior monitoring, such as on the sidewalks and streets within and around the property, has become as important as security measures taken within the campus itself.

Recently, the NCIS launched a project to update and improve visual monitoring of the overall campus. Now, NCIS’s overall video surveillance includes a multitude of VIVOTEK solutions including FD8361, FD8362, FD8363, FD8377-HTV, FD8372, FD836BA-HTV, FD9381-HTV, FD816CA-HF2, MA9321-EHTV, MA8391-ETV, MS9390-HV and MS9321-EHV.
For special circumstances and requirements for the exterior of the campus, NCIS’s new video surveillance system features five VIVOTEK network cameras, including two multiple sensor adjustable cameras, the MA9321-EHTV for the exterior corners of the main building, a FD9381-HTV for the main building rooftop, and two multiple sensor cameras, MS9390-HV for the exterior low-height on property lines. NCIS chose the MA9321-EHTV for the camera’s desired high resolution and 360° coverage of property, street frontages and street intersections/crosswalks. As the MA9321-EHTV is one of VIVOTEK’s most versatile product, it provides NCIS with high resolution video recordings through four independent sensors and remote focus lenses. By having each sensor independent of each other, the MA9321-EHTV views four different regions simultaneously, therefore reducing the total number of cameras needed for surveillance and lowering total installation time and costs.

NCIS chose the 5-megapixel H.265 fixed dome, the FD9381-HTV for the desired high resolution coverage of a 13,000 square foot playground across the street from one of the installed cameras.