The City of Lakeland in Florida has recently standardized its security operations with Genetec Security Center, a unified security platform that combines video surveillance, access control and automatic license plate recognition systems into one central monitoring and management platform.
Located between Tampa and Orlando, the City of Lakeland is home to just over 100,000 residents. While surveillance efforts were already in place to keep citizens safe, the City of Lakeland was dealing with many different disparate analog and DVR systems. City administrators wanted a more robust, and reliable IP-based security system. After much deliberation, the City of Lakeland chose the Genetec Security Center and SiteSecure, a leading security integrator that was recently acquired by Miller Electric Company, is currently contracted to handle installations and maintenance for the city-wide expansion project.
While the city-wide system is ever-evolving, Security Center is currently installed at 53 sites throughout the City of Lakeland. These sites include waste and water facilities, police and fire departments, city hall, libraries, park and recreation buildings, public works facilities, the regional airport and others. Omnicast and Synergis, the video surveillance and access control systems within Security Center, are managing a total of 650 cameras and over 450 doors, respectively.
“The scalability and flexibility of Security Center has been phenomenal,” said Alan Lee, Security and Safety Systems Supervisor, Public Works Facilities, City of Lakeland. “With the new unified platform, we have been able to accommodate every single need or application that has been requested by our city organizations.”
One of the biggest persuaders for the City of Lakeland to choose Security Center was its innate open architecture which allows the city to choose its preferred brands and models of hardware, while also leveraging existing investments to lower their total cost of ownership.
“We were able to preserve existing analog cameras and also the cable, power and card technologies from previously installed access control systems at various sites,” explained Lee. “This was a huge selling point for senior management, since we were able to capitalize on existing investments and save around $300 per door and $200 per camera.”
All cameras and access control devices are located within the same platform, but the City of Lakeland has implemented very granular partitioning so that each department has exclusive control of the video and access control for their own buildings.
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