Facility The Jersey Community School District is in a rural community located approximately 50 miles northeast of St. Louis, MO. Area residents work in a mix of service industry, education, manufacturing, retail business, farming, and professional occupations. The community is also part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Area so there is a large commuter population. Mission Administration recognized that there was a pressing need to upgrade its current surveillance system. In recent years, Jersey Community High School (JCHS) had been vandalized and had experienced incidents of disorderly conduct that were not captured on their current surveillance system. Prior to the integration of its new security platform, JCHS relied on a methodology comprised of 32 interior and exterior, low quality, analog security cameras that were not providing the quality image they were seeking. “In our original implementation a few years ago, the objective with our surveillance system was to strictly review situations as they occurred. However, we eventually realized that our previous vendor implemented a security system that was better fit for a commercial facility than our school building,” said Lisa Schuenke Principal of Jersey Community High School. “The images that were being produced were not clear at all, which was inhibiting us from being able to properly identify students who were misbehaving. Which is why we started looking for another vendor and system that would better fit our needs,” Schuenke continued. Case Study - High Definition CCTV The Answer JCHS partnered with Primary Systems to install and integrate Avigilon’s HD surveillance cameras and encoders. With the internal integration of 6 Avigilon IP cameras, JCHS was given the complete solution they envisioned. With better quality images being produced by the new Avigilon cameras, JCHS had the system they needed to dramatically decrease the likelihood of improper conduct and increase the safety and overall protection of their students and staff in the facility. To correspond with the new Avigilon IP cameras, Primary Systems was able to integrate the school’s existing 32 analog cameras into the Avigilon platform by simply replacing the existing systems DVRs with high resolution Avigilon analog video encoders. This upgrade not only facilitated deployment and reduced costs, but also improved the performance of the existing cameras. “Primary Systems demonstrated the power of Avigilon’s IP camera solution and they were able to show us how easily it would integrate with our existing camera system which was important to us,” said Keith Norman Director of Technology over the Jersey Community School District. “Now, not only is the picture produced from the Avigilon cameras pristine but the quality of images from our existing cameras have greatly increased as well, giving us a great deal of flexibility.” Jersey Community High School Deploys Avigilon’s High Definition Camera System Tomorrow’s Technology Today