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Product Details

Overview

Verkada is a cloud-managed physical-security platform combining video cameras, access control, alarms, intercoms, visitor management, environmental sensors, and emergency-response tools in one administrative environment. Schools can monitor campuses, investigate incidents, manage doors and credentials, screen visitors, receive analytic alerts, and share selected information with first responders.

Video is stored on Verkada cameras with cloud-based management and remote access rather than through a conventional central NVR design. The integrated approach can simplify administration, but districts should evaluate subscription dependency, bandwidth, retention, privacy and biometric analytics, cybersecurity, open-records response, evidence export, and interoperability before standardizing on the ecosystem.

Features
Video security
  • Provides live and recorded video from cloud-managed cameras with onboard storage.
  • Supports floorplans, remote access, privacy regions, face blurring, analytic search, and secure sharing.
Access, alarms, and intercom
  • Manages door controllers, schedules, staff credentials, wireless locks, intrusion sensors, panic buttons, and intercom entry.
  • Connects access and alarm events with video for verification and response.
Visitor and student workflows
  • Verkada Guest checks in visitors, scans IDs, screens configured databases, prints badges, and notifies staff.
  • Supports student tardy and early-dismissal workflows with PowerSchool, Clever, and ClassLink connections.
Emergency response
  • Initiates lockdowns, alerts staff, provides floorplans, and can grant selected access to first responders.
  • Shares live feeds or links with authorized law-enforcement partners.
Environmental and operational monitoring
  • Offers air-quality and vape-detection sensors, license-plate recognition, and other campus analytics.
  • Centralizes device health, permissions, alerts, and multi-site administration in Verkada Command.
Interoperabilty
Support Options
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Web
Company News
Simple, intelligent hybrid video security designed for reliability and scale.  Verkada offers simplicity and added protection to organizations looking to modernize their approach to physical security. The D-Series cameras—available in indoor and outdoor models— eliminates the need for local servers, firewall equipment and network video recorders (NVRs), reducing complexity and lowering operating costs. In place of the NVR, each Verkada camera stores video footage on industrial-grade, solid-state storage. This fully encrypted and distributed design offers a number of unique benefits. 
Simple, intelligent hybrid video security designed for reliability and scale.  Verkada offers simplicity and added protection to organizations looking to modernize their approach to physical security. The D-Series cameras—available in indoor and outdoor models— eliminates the need for local servers, firewall equipment and network video recorders (NVRs), reducing complexity and lowering operating costs. In place of the NVR, each Verkada camera stores video footage on industrial-grade, solid-state storage. This fully encrypted and distributed design offers a number of unique benefits. 

It minimizes bandwidth consumption by avoiding continuous video upload. And it greatly reduces the cost and complexity of extending the system—simply install new cameras, with no additional hardware equipment required. Paired with Verkada’s intuitive, web-based software, the D-Series cameras come with powerful capabilities. It’s easy to grant, edit and revoke access permissions for any user—by camera, site or organization. Activity-based indexing and intelligent search features automatically identify incidents, reducing hassle and speeding response times. Verkada even makes it possible to share real-time camera feeds via SMS. And because the cameras are web managed, software updates and upgrades occur automatically. 
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School Districts that use this:

2 California school districts are currently associated with this product in the SDLA database.

Data comes from SDLA district surveys, public records, vendor information, and ongoing review.