Crown Deploys Verkada CCTV With Vape Detection For Perth College.
Crown Deploys Verkada CCTV With Vape Detection – Crown Security has deployed Verkada surveillance and vape detection at a Perth college.
According to Crown Security’s Saverio Galanti, the Crown team has completed a large integrated security installation for a secondary college south of Perth, deploying around 140 Verkada cameras and 20 Verkada air quality sensors for video surveillance, analytics and vape detection.
The project replaced an on-premises surveillance system with legacy cameras that Crown Security general manager Saverio Galanti said was not providing the analytics capability required by the school.
“The conversation with the client was mostly around shortage of server supply and the 10-year warranty offered by Verkada,” Galanti said.
“The alternative offer was a 3-year warranty and no proactive system alerts.”
The Verkada cameras provide AI-based analytics and event alerts, including person of interest detection, people holding mobile phones, fighting, fence climbing and other activity-based events. Verkada supports alerts for specific people of interest, while its activity detection can identify behaviours including climbing and fighting.
The installation also includes 20 Verkada SV23 air quality sensors configured for vape detection.
Verkada’s sensors use multiple onboard environmental measurements to generate a Vape Index, with configurable thresholds and real-time alerts. Notifications can be delivered through Verkada’s platform, while sensor events can also be integrated with video systems to provide visual context.
Vape events can therefore be reported directly to nominated staff or security personnel without requiring a camera to be installed in a privacy-sensitive location. Verkada also supports integration between sensor events and cameras in key areas of concern, allowing an event to be associated with video of people entering or leaving the area.
“The cameras used are a mixture of Verkada CD63 and CD63e, with the campus light pole cameras being CB62e models,” Galanti said.
“The combination of proactive alerts and Crown Security’s patrol response was helping to minimise after-hours incidents while providing live alerts to school staff – what an amazing project this was!”
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