For schools that serve children, where the bar for privacy is higher than on an adult campus. Rules cover the perimeter and empty buildings after hours and count the people in view of the gate cameras. They do not identify pupils.
- 1Main entrance · People counts by hour
- 2Hallways · People counts
- 3Perimeter · After-hours zone entry
- 4Playgrounds · Empty-site rules after hours
This sector is in our industry directory rather than among the six primary markets. We have not developed a full workflow or pilot plan for it yet.
Where it is used
Who it is for
- Head teacher or principal
- Safeguarding lead
- Site manager
After hours
A person on the grounds or in a building when the school is closed.
Gates
The people in view of each gate camera, counted by hour at the start and end of the day. It is a count of people in the camera's view, not of entries.
Drop-off
A vehicle stopped in a no-stopping zone beyond its limit.
Events of interest
Events for the perimeter, gates and empty buildings.
Each says what it needs and where it stops. The rules you set on a camera raise these events, and the alerts that go with them.
After-hours presence
A person or vehicle is in an area during the hours it should be empty.
- When
- Zone entry inside a scheduled window.
- Limit
- The schedule follows the clock, so authorised late work raises it unless that camera is excepted.
Zone entry
A person or vehicle enters a perimeter, fence line or restricted area.
- When
- A followed object enters the drawn zone.
- Limit
- The detector looks for people and vehicles rather than motion, which reduces but does not remove false detections from animals, reflections and headlights. A badly placed zone edge can also catch passers-by.
Line crossing
A person or vehicle crosses a line you draw, in the direction you choose.
- When
- A followed object crosses the line one way, the other way, or either way.
- Limit
- An object that is only partly in view near the line can be counted as crossing, or missed. A crossing inside the rule's repeat limit is not recorded.
Crowd gathering
More people are in a camera's view at once than the number you set.
- When
- The count of people in the camera's view reaches the threshold.
- Limit
- A count of people the camera can see, not a calibrated density and not a count inside a drawn zone. People hidden behind others are not counted.
Vehicle stopped where it should not
A vehicle stays in a no-stopping zone, a fire lane or an emergency bay beyond the time you set.
- When
- A vehicle's time inside the zone passes the limit.
- Limit
- A vehicle held in traffic inside the zone is reported like a parked one.
Weapon visible
A scene reading describes a visible weapon.
- When
- The reading of a sighting carries the weapon-visible tag.
- Limit
- It follows the reading, so it is not a real-time weapon detector. Tools, umbrellas and phones can be read wrongly; concealed items are not seen.
Fire or smoke visible
A scene reading describes visible fire or smoke.
- When
- The reading of a sighting carries the fire-or-smoke tag.
- Limit
- A reading is made when a person or vehicle is sighted, so an empty scene is not checked. It does not replace a fire detection system.
Use cases
What a school site team uses it for.
What the current release does for this kind of site.
After-hours presence
A person entering the site when the school is closed
Perimeter entry
An alert, linked to the sighting's still, when a person enters a perimeter zone
Gate counts
The people in view of the gate cameras, counted by hour; not a count of entries
Crowding at gates and corridors
An alert when the count in a camera's view passes a threshold
Drop-off zone kept clear
An event when a vehicle stays beyond its limit
Visible hazard candidates
Fire, smoke or a weapon, read from a still after the sighting
What it needs
- A written policy agreed with the safeguarding lead and, where required, parents
- Zones drawn for the perimeter and for buildings that should be empty
Boundaries
- VisionObject does not identify pupils. Face search is not offered in the current release, no face list can be enrolled, and no behaviour or attendance record is kept for any pupil.
- Every person the cameras follow, pupils included, is kept as a sighting, with a still where a frame was captured, all day, whatever a rule's schedule says.
- A scene reading sends a still of the whole camera view to the AI service you choose. Leave AI scene reading off unless your safeguarding and data-protection leads approve sending stills to that service.
- It is not a visitor-management system. A gate rule raises an event; authorising a visitor remains your front office's process.
- Visible-weapon and fire-or-smoke readings follow a sighting and can be wrong or late. They do not replace alarms, drills or supervision.
- Cameras in changing rooms, toilets and similar spaces are out of scope.
- A school is a different setting from a university campus: this page, not the campus page, applies to sites that serve children.
Capabilities used
The same platform. Different rules.
Each site gets its own cameras, modules and rules. Nothing is custom-built; everything is configured.
Review perimeter and after-hours rules for a school.
Choose the perimeter and the main gate. We will show the rules and the review queue with your safeguarding lead.