Schools & campuses

School security that knows who belongs on campus

A school security system has one job above all others: knowing, at any moment, whether the people on campus are supposed to be there. PGAK adds that to the campus CCTV a school already has — recognising staff and students at the gate, flagging unknown adults near entrances during school hours, and turning the grounds into a monitored perimeter after the last bell.

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Seconds
To answer 'is this student on campus?'
On-site
All processing — no student video in a cloud
24×7
Grounds monitoring outside school hours

Sound familiar?

Anyone can walk through the gate during drop-off and nobody would be certain.
Attendance is taken on paper in thirty classrooms and reconciled hours later.
Parents ask what happened at 2pm and the answer is a shrug.
The grounds are empty and unwatched from 6pm to 7am.

At the gate, during school hours

Drop-off and pick-up are the two windows where a campus is most open and least controllable. Recognition at the gate gives the guard a second pair of eyes that never gets distracted by a queue of two hundred parents.

Unknown-adult alerts

An unrecognised adult loitering near a gate or entrance during school hours is flagged to the front office with a snapshot.

Staff and student recognition

Enrolled faces pass silently. The system's attention is spent entirely on the people it doesn't know.

Vehicle logging

Buses, staff cars and visitor vehicles logged automatically at entry and exit.

Attendance without thirty registers

Face-based attendance at gates or classroom entrances produces a live roll for the whole school. The practical value is not the automation — it's that at 11am you can answer 'is this child on campus?' in seconds rather than by walking to a classroom.

After hours: the campus becomes a perimeter

Schools are attractive targets when empty — electronics, equipment, copper. Once the campus closes, any person detected on the grounds raises an alert to the principal and the security contact, with a clip attached.

Safeguarding and privacy

This is a school, so the bar is higher. Processing stays on-premises, cameras go on gates, corridors and grounds rather than in classrooms or any private area, face data is stored as a template rather than as photographs of children, and access is restricted to named staff. Every one of those is a policy question as much as a technical one, and we set it up with you rather than around you.

school security system — common questions

Are cameras placed inside classrooms?

We recommend against it and it isn't needed. Gates, corridors, entrances, grounds and perimeters give you the security and attendance value without putting cameras in learning or private spaces.

How is students' face data protected?

Processing runs on a device at the school, so video never leaves the campus by default. Faces are stored as mathematical templates rather than image galleries, and only named staff can access the system.

Can it flag an unknown adult near the school gate?

Yes. Anyone not enrolled as staff, a parent or a known contractor who lingers near an entrance during school hours is flagged to the front office with a snapshot for a human to judge.

Does it replace our attendance registers?

It can produce a live campus-wide roll from gate and entrance recognition. Most schools run it alongside registers for a term and then decide how much of the paper process to retire.

See it working on your own cameras.

Book a free demo and watch PGAK turn one of your live feeds into intelligent protection — in about 20 minutes.

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