CBORD^® Campus Security Monitor™ Improves Situational Awareness

Solution combines intelligent video, access control, and alarm management

Monday, July 6, 2009

Ithaca, New York: The CBORD Group, Inc., the leading provider of campus card and integrated security solutions to colleges and universities, is pleased to announce the release of CBORD Campus Security Monitor™, an application designed to enhance situational awareness for campus security professionals. The application, aimed at users of CBORD’s campus card and integrated security solutions, pulls together data from multiple applications in a unified interface for optimal ease of management.

Security Monitor provides a “snapshot” of campus security operations at a glance and makes it easy to respond to security events in real time, rather than dealing with multiple software applications. Users can view past and present access requests, monitor and respond to alarm states, view patron images related to specific events, and view live and recorded video linked to alarms, card swipes, motion, and camera tours. Security Monitor’s customizable interface lets users decide what information is most important, and presents it in an intuitive and actionable manner.

“We have a huge video infrastructure on our campus, and Security Monitor gives our dispatch officers and investigative team a quick view of many different areas of operation,” says John Matherson, Manager, Aggie OneCard Center, North Carolina A&T State University. “The solution lets us map video to card access locations and makes it easy for officers to acknowledge alarms. Plus, we can customize the view for different shifts or users, so the dispatchers and investigative team each see what is most important to them.”

“We implemented Security Monitor to provide our dispatch officers with a user-friendly way to get alarm and access information,” says John Bonass, Manager, University Card Systems, Villanova University. “Our Public Safety team uses it 24/7 to monitor doors, lock and unlock locations, etc. Security Monitor requires very little training and provides another way to effectively monitor your campus.”

“CBORD Campus Security Monitor is designed with the dispatcher in mind, making it easy to manage far-reaching areas of campus security with a single, intuitive interface,” says Cindy McCall, Vice President, Marketing, The CBORD Group, Inc. “CBORD solutions allow universities to benefit from shared data between mission-critical technology solutions, and Security Monitor is a great example of that.”

About The CBORD Group, Inc.

The CBORD Group serves colleges and universities, corporations, healthcare facilities, chain restaurants, supermarkets, and a host of other market segments. CBORD’s products are used in campus ID card privilege control, access control, integrated security, housing services, food service, catering, nutrition services, online ordering, and other institution-wide activities. The CBORD Group serves more than 6,000 clients in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, New Zealand, and Australia.

The CBORD Group was founded in 1975. To learn more about CBORD, visit us at www.cbord.com.