System and method for deployment and financing of a security system

• US 20090076879A1
• Filed: 09/19/2007
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MDI Inc
• Original Assignee: MDI Inc
• Inventors: Vandevere, Jim, Sparks, Collier
• Application Number:
  US11/903,125
• Publication Number:
  US 20090076879A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety

Abstract

A method is provided to itemize, install, finance and monitor a security system on a school campus. A behavioral recognition training program for administration and staff is provided. A set of financing options is provided that minimizes or eliminates the burden placed on the school district for payment and maintenance of the security system.

Claims

1. A method of provisioning, installing and financing a security system in a school having a school campus, administration and a set of students comprising:

auditing the school campus to identify a set of physical buildings and a parking facility;

auditing the campus for a set of existing access control equipment;

auditing the administration for a set of scalable non-education functions;

deriving a proposed security system provisioning program from the set of existing access control equipment and from the set of scalable non-education functions;

presenting the proposed security system provisioning program to the administration;

contracting with the administration to implement the proposed security system provisioning program;

implementing the proposed security system provisioning program comprising the further steps of;

a) installing an access control system in conjunction with the set of existing access control equipment; and

b) training the administration to recognize a set of behavioral risk patterns in the set of students;

financing a first payment amount for the access control system by assuming the set of non-education functions administering the set of non-education functions to realize a savings to the administration and using the savings to pay for the access control system;

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of financing includes the further step of leasing the access control system to the school.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of installing further comprises:

defining a set of modules according to a type and a number of pieces of security equipment; and

categorizing the access control system into the set of modules.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of auditing the administration for a set of scalable non-education functions includes:

Examining one of the group of;

a) a set of payroll functions for inefficiency;

b) a set of benefit functions for inefficiency;

c) a set of cafeteria functions for inefficiency;

d) a set of transportation functions for inefficiency; and

e) a set of security functions for inefficiency.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of auditing the campus for a set of existing access control equipment comprises identifying one of the group of a computer system, a video camera, a video recorder, a door badge reader, a door lock controller and a door lock.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of auditing the school campus further includes identifying one or more of the group of:

a traffic pattern;

a flow pattern of the set of students;

a classroom;

a hallway;

a perimeter of the school campus;

a geography anomaly adjacent the school campus;

a lighting system of the school campus; and

a doorway.

and further comprises the step of identifying a set of vulnerabilities.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising financing a second payment amount for the access control system by one of the group of a governmental grant and a private donation.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

providing an ID badge as a part of the access control system; and

providing advertising indicia on the ID badge.

9. A method of using a computer system to monitor a school campus including a set of school buildings, a parking facility, a set of vehicles and a set of students comprising;

providing a first set of video cameras in the set of school buildings and connected to the computer system generating a first set of video signals;

providing a second set of video cameras in the parking facility and connected to the computer system and generating second set of video signals;

providing a set of software on the computer system for analyzing the first set of video signals and the second set of video signals and for recognizing a traffic pattern and for recognizing a set of anomalies;

programming the set of software to;

a) log a first set of trends in the traffic flow of the set of students and send a first alert signal through the computer system;

b) log a first subset of the set of anomalies related to the set of students and send a second alert signal through the computer system;

c) log a second subset of the set of anomalies related to the set of vehicles and send a third alert through the computer system; and

d) log a second set of trends in the traffic flow of the set of vehicles and send a fourth alert signal through the computer system.

10. The method of claim 9 comprising the further steps of:

Providing an administrative staff for monitoring the set of students;

Training the administrative staff to recognize a set of behavior anomalies in the set of students;

Instructing the administrative staff to send a fifth alert signal through the computer system upon recognition of a behavioral anomaly of the set of behavioral anomalies.

11. The method of claim 9 further comprising the step of responding to the first alert signal, the second alert signal, the third alert signal and the fourth alert signal by notifying a school administration remotely through the computer system.