Tuesday, September 16, 2014
A Day in the Life
Security Today: Students, staff and instructors begin their day at a reasonable hour during a work day, but for security, time has no meaning. The criminal element does not watch the clock and often strikes when there is opportunity. Safety and security go hand-in-hand, no matter the hour of the day or night.
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This article is incredibly interesting. I have always been curious about security procedures, and its clear that modern technologies have given the sense of a "rinse and repeat" cycle in the security industry. It's so crazy how quickly technologies like license plate detection and apps that can help keep us safe on campus have developed. Clearly, this schools campus is a little bit more developed than CMU's, however, most people probably wouldn't see a need for increased security considering the size of our student body in comparison to a lot of other schools.
Security is definitely something we take for granted on our campus at CMU. This article sheds a little bit of light on how hard our security team works, and how stressful the job can be. Working security on a college campus is a 24/7 job. I am curious to know what college campus this article is based on. It seems like this particular college campus is particularly advanced in the technology they are utilizing to keep the campus community safe. I think CMU could definitely benefit from some of this technology. While we may not have a very large student body, we are based in a city, which calls for a higher attention to potential crime. I also think adopting some higher technology for CMU security would make the jobs of CMU police officers a lot less stressful. After reading this article, I think we should be equipping our security force with as many tools possible to ensure they can properly and effectively do their jobs.
This techology sounds super cool, and once fully implemented it can clearly have a huge impact on property security systems. This example is about a campus system but I can definitely see this working for just about any type of place with a large community going in and out of it on a regular basis. What’s really amazing about this is that the system is able to secure a camps, which is likely to be very open, which means that the precision needed for the system to monitor intruders is incredibly sophisticated.
While this is clearly great and invaluable and potentially life-saving, I couldn’t help but feel a little uncomfortable while reading it. With all these cameras and elaborate dorm and shuttle stops monitoring systems, how long will it take till a security system like this one starts watching students as well as possible intruders? It’s a little too “1984” for my taste. I guess what it comes down to is that this is a great innovation, but I can also see many ways in which it would be abused to spy on students in the name of their safety.
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