BCI Integrated Solutions, a certified Geutebrück Partner, was commissioned to provide the video technology to secure all of the school campuses due to their many years of experience and deep technical knowledge. This made it possible to have a scalable solution that is not only fully mature from a technical perspective but that also provides additional benefits.

All schools county wide, are interconnected over a fiber network and are centrally controlled and monitored by the school's security team, from their Safety and Security Operations Center. The video wall provides access to views from multiple cameras across all the schools and, are up and running in real time: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This ensures both preventive monitoring as well as quick assessment/response in the event of a safety or security incidents. At the same time, school administrators and School Resource Officers on site can check live video or stored recordings locally and directly follow up on incidents.

To provide this level of visibility across these school campuses, the system has nearly 100 G-Core VMS Recorders with the required storage to maintain the mandatory 30-days of video retention, as required by Florida Law.

Geutebrück viewing stations are used to access the camera views and drive the video wall in the Security Operations Center. Here, school security personnel can access all live video streams and recorded video instantly, providing quick and efficient response to any incident. The schools were initially equipped with 16 cameras some 18 years ago. Today, there are over 5,200 cameras and most of those are Geutebrück Cameras

The entire system today is centrally managed by Geutebrück's Security Information Management Platform (G-SIM). This allows the school to centrally manage the entire school system security and provides school maps with camera locations, deep integration possibilities with other systems, active directory integration and full audit trail on every action, reaction and event.

Tim Butler is an experienced security system engineer who has worked in the security industry for many years. Specializing in cameras and access control, he has been employed at the Sarasota County Schools for the past 18 years. When asked why he chose Geutebrück technology, his answer came quickly: “Storage was the largest challenge. State requirements mandate we maintain 30 days of video storage but, the school district’s goal is to keep at least 35 days’ worth. In our previous system estimating storage needs accurately was difficult and Geutebrück was able to provide what we needed. There were several systems that were considered, at the enterprise level and, Geutebrück fit all the characteristics that we were looking for. In addition, the transition back then from analog to the world of IP was made easy. All of the employees of the Sarasota County Schools Safety and Security team are trained internally so, the staff can easily manage the video equipment in the schools."