Berklee College Of Music - Lenel

educationBerklee College of MusicSecures Campus 24/7 with Lenel’sOnGuard Security PlatformCASE STUDYArmed with OnGuard, Public Safety Department effectively manages wide range of securityfunctions including access control, alarm monitoring, video surveillance and analysis, as well asID credential issuance and management.Boston’s Berklee College of Music is unique among otherinstitutions of higher education. Founded more than 60 yearsago, its guiding principle is that the best way to preparestudents for careers in music is through the study andpractice of contemporary music. In fact, Berklee is theworld’s largest independent college of contemporary music.With prestigious alumni that are a virtual “who's who” in themusic industry, including such Grammy award winners asMelissa Etheridge, Bruce Hornsby, Quincy Jones, DianaKrall, Branford Marsalis, and John Mayer, it’s hard to arguewith Berklee’s success.Given its reputation for musical excellence, it’s not surprisingthat Berklee attracts the most gifted young musicians fromaround the globe. The college is home to about 4,200students, of which 25 percent are international students whocome from 85 different countries to study in downtownBoston. Because Berklee is located in an urban environment,“The linchpin of Berklee’ssecurity system is Lenel’sOnGuard securityplatform, which includesa full suite of securitymanagement capabilities”

2CASE STUDY : Berklee College of Musicup with this demanding 24/7 environment, Berklee isadopting state-of-the-art security technology.“Our students are musicians that often perform at showsand don’t come back until the early hours of the morning,”Costa said. “We don’t have eight or nine hours of downtimelike some other college campuses. We’re active all the timeand need the best solutions the security industry has tooffer.”Tying It All TogetherThe linchpin of Berklee’s security system is Lenel’sOnGuard security platform, which includes a full suite ofsecurity management capabilities based on an openarchitecture, providing the college with a comprehensiveand robust security solution that is seamlessly integratedthe safety and security of its students and approximatelyinto a single system. Berklee relies on GS Security, one of1,000 faculty and staff are of paramount importance.New England’s leading security systems integrators, forThe Berklee Public Safety Department’s mission is totop-tier expertise in Lenel products and has worked closelyprovide professional expertise and standardizedon an on-going basis with the Berklee public safetystate-of-the-art technology products combined withdepartment to implement a comprehensive, best-in-classsuperior responsive customer service, ensuring a safe andsecurity solution. Armed with the OnGuard platform,secure environment for the protection of its people,Berklee is able to effectively manage a wide range ofproperty and assets. Towards that end, the departmentsecurity functions including access control, alarmmaintains a constant presence, 24 hours a day, 7 days amonitoring, video surveillance and analysis, as well as IDweek.credential issuance and management.With a large number of access points and thousands ofThe college’s security system includes almost 200 cardpeople walking in and out of buildings on a daily basis,readers around campus. Perhaps the most interestingBerklee needed to create a safe environment for students,deployment of a Berklee card reader is at the entrance offaculty and visitors, while protecting its assets, equipmentwalk-in vault cage housed in an old bank building that theand property. When looking for a centralized access controlcollege owns.and security system to meet its demanding requirements oncampus, Berklee turned to Lenel Systems International, aleading provider of software and turnkey systems that hassecured more than a thousand educational facilities aroundinstallation and integration support. GS Security providesIn addition, entry and egress doors are equipped with doorcontact sensors that set off an alarm when the door isforced or held open for an extended period of time. Thesethe world.intrusion alarms are monitored at the Berklee Public SafetyAccording to Nicholas Costa, Systems Manager at Berklee,campus and a mix of video motion and intrusion sensors.the college’s access control equipment is constantly beingrun through its paces and requires a robust system. To keepDepartment’s control center. There are 25 panic alarms onBerklee operates nearly 200 video cameras – a third of

3CASE STUDY : Berklee College of Musicwhich are IP-based video surveillance cameras. The systemuses 16 Lenel Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) and threeLenel Network Video Recorders (NVRs). Thirty cameras aretied back to a control center (via analog matrix) thatcontains the three NVRs that are fed by the 16 DVRs (withalarm inputs) across campus.“We’ve established a very good relationship with IT tosupport what we’re doing to deploy campus-wide,” saidCosta. “Without their cooperation, we wouldn’t have beenas successful as we have been, especially with the IPcamera integration.”Video Surveillance & ResponseAt Berklee, video cameras are installed in areas of highasset value or vulnerability to theft or intrusion (i.e. tel/data,high asset storage, emergency exit doors) and areas thatare not easily visible and may pose a risk to individualDispersed Urban Campussafety or security (e.g. practice rooms, ensembles, studios).One of the main challenges of maintaining strict control ofOnGuard’s ability to capture and store video usingaccess to the college’s many buildings is that Berklee’scommercial-off-the-shelf cameras and recording technologycampus, like other colleges in urban settings, is dispersedhelps control break-ins, thefts, assaults and loitering, asover many city blocks. Berklee occupies 30 buildingswell as capture possible destruction of property forprimarily in the Back Bay-Fenway area of Boston andimmediate response.includes recording studios, music synthesis facilities, a newVideo signals routed, aggregated and transmitted fromcameras are sent back to the Berklee public safetydepartment’s control center. The delivery of live andrecorded video provides high-availability access to networkvideo for 24/7 monitoring. Operators can choose from anynumber of available cameras to automatically display videoin response to user-defined event triggers.On campus, it is critical for Berklee’s security personnel tobe able to quickly react to an alarm or event from theircentralized surveillance point (the control center). UsingOnGuard, the college’s security force is able toacknowledge alarms, control cardholder access to specificareas, view video in real time and display an interactive mapshowing where the event is occurring to rapidly dispatchsecurity personnel should the situation warrant it.Liberal Arts building, and dormitories all designed toprovide students with a secure home base in the downtown“environment.Using OnGuard, thecollege’s security force isable to acknowledgealarms, control cardholderaccess to specific areas,view video in real time anddisplay an interactive map”

4CASE STUDY : Berklee College of Musicresidents. However, students aren’t the only people forwhom Berklee must provide a safe environment.One of the ways that Berklee is distinct from other collegesis the fact that its campus has a very large retail presence –something you don’t often see, even at urban schools. Thecollege’s security system not only serves its students,faculty, staff and visitors, but also a significant number ofretail tenants and their customers.“All the buildings that we own in Boston at the ground level,first floor, are retail establishments,” said Murphy. “Weactually own buildings and have tenants. We’re a landlordand so what that means to us is that after 5 pm if any ofthose tenants have a problem they call our control center.”Berklee One-Card System“We’re up to 30 buildings and a lot of them are old so weBerklee has a single card system for all its students, faculty,have had some technology challenges,” said Roy Murphystaff and contractors that encompasses both administrationCPP, Berklee’s Director of Public Safety, who started hisID needs and badge access. The college ensures that onlycareer in law enforcement and spent 20 years in corporateauthorized individuals are granted access to certain areas,security before joining the college administration.especially dormitories. Access control at Berklee is“Because Berklee’s facilities are old we run into a lot ofwiring challenges here,” added Costa. “We’re in an old bankbuilding that is more than 100 years old and it’s very difficultaccomplished by leveraging both physical (posted officers)and electronic (badge readers and the Berklee ID card)security measures.to get equipment in there. That’s why the Lenel 2210 is very“We call it the Berklee ‘One Card’ and everyone has theappealing to us as a solution.”same badge but different pictures if you are a student,Lenel’s LNL-2210 Intelligent Single Door Controller (ISDC) isfaculty, staff or contractor,” said Murphy.an edge device that provides a solution for interfacing oneWith the exception of dormitories, most campus buildingsor two readers to a single door within the OnGuard system.and facilities are accessible to members of the campusWhat makes the LNL-2210 an ideal solution for Berklee iscommunity, guests, and visitors during normal hours ofthat it is a high-performance, Ethernet- ready card readerbusiness, and during designated hours on weekends andpanel that controls a single opening with 802.3af compliantholidays. Entry doors are secured after normal businessPower over Ethernet (PoE). Given the wiring challenges inhours and only accessible through the use of a card readermany of the college’s older buildings, the easy installation ofand authorized access badge. Unlimited access is availablePoE made the LNL-2210 ISDC a very practical choice forto all those who have an authorized Berklee ID card.single door control.“When I got here almost five years ago, we had 35 badgesThe college's Public Safety Department provides 24-hourand today we have more than 6,000 badges and almostaccess control at the residence halls and other buildings,200 card readers,” said Murphy. “At first, they didn’t knowwith security personnel always available to assist campuswhat a card reader was and now the faculty, in particular,