A private K-8 school in Bergen County, New Jersey — a 3-building campus serving 300 students with 45 faculty and staff, requiring visitor management, emergency lockdown capability, and physical security compliant with NJ school safety legislation under N.J.S.A. 18A:41-1.
Students protected
Buildings secured
Cameras deployed
Emergency lockdown time
The Challenge
The school’s existing security infrastructure was a patchwork of outdated analog cameras with no remote access, a manual paper visitor sign-in with no ID verification, and no integrated lockdown capability. After a neighboring district experienced an unauthorized entry incident resulting in a 45-minute delayed response, the board of directors commissioned a full security review. Seven gaps were identified: no camera coverage at the secondary entrance, no real-time campus occupancy record, no ability to remotely lock doors, no license plate capture at the main entrance, outdated wiring in the main building, no after-hours motion detection in sensitive spaces, and no integration between security and the front office emergency notification process.
What Solved IT Did
Solved IT deployed Verkada cloud-managed cameras at all entry points, hallways, and common areas across all three buildings — replacing the analog system with 1080p IP cameras accessible from any device in real time. Verkada Access Control with key card and PIN entry was installed at all building entrances. The Verkada Guest visitor management system replaced paper sign-in with digital check-in and instant staff notification. Triton Sensors were deployed in the nurse’s office, counselor’s office, and after-hours spaces for motion detection without cameras in privacy-sensitive areas. License plate recognition was configured at the main vehicle entrance. A single administrator action now initiates a full campus lockdown — locking all access doors simultaneously and pushing an alert to all faculty devices.
The Results
- Full campus visibility from a single dashboard — administrators view any camera in real time from phone, tablet, or front office screen
- Emergency lockdown executable in under 10 seconds from the Verkada mobile app — all access-controlled doors lock simultaneously
- Visitor check-in time reduced from 4 minutes to under 60 seconds with instant photo-capture notification to front office staff
- License plate recognition at main entrance logging every vehicle with timestamp — searchable for incident review
- NJ school safety compliance audit passed with commendation — auditor cited integrated lockdown and visitor management as model implementation
- Zero unauthorized entry incidents since deployment — previous annual average was 2–3 reported events per year
