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building technology
Video System Monitors Students Campus-surveillance system upgrade to digital technology provides efficient control and management.
The video wall in the public-safety dispatch center has eight 55-in. monitors and four 32-in. monitors, with two 19-in. monitors. Video can be pushed back and forth between the monitor wall and the operator consoles to track specific activities of interest.
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rotecting the collective 30,000-plus students, faculty,
the university’s domestic campuses, with approximately 4,000
and staff at the various Missouri State Univ. campuses
students living in university housing and approximately 4,000
is a daunting job that requires the best in personnel
faculty and staff members.
and technology. From its founding in 1905 to its distinctive
One of the most recent enhancements to the university’s
mission and identity in public affairs today, the university has
safety program occurred when the video-surveillance and secu-
spread across four physical campus locations, including the
rity system was upgraded from an analog to a digital platform.
main campus in Springfield, MO; a satellite campus in West
The new video-surveillance system has been initially deployed
Plains, MO, that offers two-year associate degrees; and a sat-
at the main campus in Springfield, where a centralized pub-
ellite campus in Mountain Grove, MO, that focuses on fruit
lic-safety dispatch center was installed. At the heart of the pub-
science and agricultural research. The fourth campus is located
lic-safety dispatch center is a video wall that displays feeds
in Dalian, China, in partnership with Liaoning Normal Univ.
from the more than 500 constant and motion-activated camer-
A total of 23,838 students are enrolled in Missouri State in
as located throughout the 225-acre campus. To efficiently con-
JUL/AUG 2014
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