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Industry Solution

Education.

Creating safe, connected learning environments with WinGuard, the open integration platform for campus security and operations.

The Challenge

Open campuses. Clearly controlled access.

Schools, colleges, universities, and student residences must protect students, employees, visitors, and property without restricting the openness of everyday campus life. Theft, vandalism, and unauthorized access can affect personal safety and interrupt teaching or residential operations. At large, distributed institutions, security teams also need a consistent overview across many buildings and locations. Access must remain flexible during regular hours while becoming more restrictive in the evening and at night.

  • Safe learning and living environments

    Students, employees, and residents need reliable protection from theft, vandalism, and unauthorized access.

  • Flexible access by time and area

    Doors and access routes must support regular opening hours, restricted periods, and safe exit at all times.

  • Cross-site security coordination

    Large institutions require a homogeneous and easy-to-use security environment across multiple locations.

  • Current and transparent permissions

    Changing student, staff, contractor, and visitor populations make consistent access management essential.

The Platform

Everything at a glance.

WinGuard provides a unified security environment for campuses, individual education buildings, and student residences. Security information from distributed locations can be brought together in one clear operational view, helping teams coordinate their response across sites. Defined door and access functions support the transition between regular opening hours and restricted periods, while area-specific permissions help ensure that authorized people can reach the spaces relevant to them. The platform can grow with expanding campuses and changing operational requirements.

  • Time- & area-based coordination 
  • Unified security management 
  • Scalable operation 
System architecture for energy operators: server, hot-standby, surveillance, client, video wall and mobile workstations connected over LAN; integrated subsystems include fire alarm (FAS), intrusion (IDS), CCTV, access control (AC), radio, public address (PA), perimeter and IoT
System architecture
Scenarios & Solutions

The situations WinGuard handles.

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Managing access throughout the campus day.

Education facilities have very different access requirements depending on the time of day. During regular opening hours, defined doors and routes must remain accessible for students, employees, and visitors. In the evening or at night, entry needs to be restricted without preventing people inside from leaving safely.

WinGuard supports centrally coordinated door and access functions based on the operating schedule. Security teams can maintain a clear view of the current status and adapt access conditions for individual buildings or organizational areas when requirements change.

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Responding to unauthorized access and vandalism.

Unauthorized entry, theft, or vandalism can endanger people, damage property, and disrupt lectures or residential life. In a distributed education environment, isolated information makes it harder to assess which location is affected and what action is required.

WinGuard consolidates relevant security information in one operational environment, helping personnel identify the affected area and coordinate the response. Defined procedures can support consistent handling while all relevant actions remain available for subsequent review.

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Coordinating security across multiple locations.

Universities and other large education providers may operate numerous faculties, administration buildings, laboratories, sports facilities, and student residences. Each location has its own operational context, but security must remain consistent across the entire institution.

WinGuard creates a homogeneous, cross-site environment that gives authorized teams a shared overview without forcing them to work in separate systems for every building. This simplifies operation, supports coordinated decisions, and allows the security structure to expand as new sites or requirements are added.

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Companion use case

Simplifying enrollment across campuses and residences.

Education providers often manage several access control platforms across campuses, halls of residence, and shared facilities. High student turnover, changing staff roles, contractors, and visitors can require repeated enrollment, manual database updates, card replacement, and time-consuming audits of who can access which location.

AIM connects existing access control environments in one central identity and authorization layer. Students, employees, and contractors can be enrolled through a standardized process, while credentials and access rights are synchronized across the relevant systems. Cards can be issued, replaced, or revoked more efficiently, and mobile credentials can be introduced where the connected infrastructure supports them. This improves transparency and reduces administrative work without requiring an immediate replacement of existing hardware.

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