SquintPRO · Schools and universities
AI video analytics for schools and universities: gates, entrances and restricted areas with SquintPRO
AI video analytics for schools and universities helps a campus team act on what its cameras already record: a vehicle at a gate, an entrance filling up, a person in a lab after hours. SquintPRO, the video analytics platform Interkey builds and supports in Riyadh, turns those conditions into alerts with video. It has no face recognition and does not identify students or staff.
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At a glance
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- What it is
- SquintPRO, Interkey's own video analytics platform, for schools and universities
- What it watches
- Vehicle and pedestrian gates, crowding at entrances, restricted areas after hours
- Cameras
- Your existing CCTV over RTSP or ONVIF, on views the survey qualifies
- Where it runs
- On-premise, so footage stays on campus, or in the cloud with 3, 6 or 12 months' retention
- How it is licensed
- Per camera stream, with unlimited use cases on a licensed stream; by quote
- What it does not do
- Recognise faces, identify students or staff, or take attendance
- What Interkey does
- Camera survey, pilot, integration and support from Riyadh
Why CCTV analytics for schools and universities starts with the cameras you have
A school or university in Saudi Arabia usually has cameras at its gates, car parks and fences, watched only after something has happened. Computer vision in schools and universities changes what those cameras are for: the software alerts when a defined condition occurs in a defined zone during set hours, such as a car in the bus lane or someone in a closed laboratory, so the guard knows where to look in time.
What AI video analytics for schools and universities watches on a campus
Pick one or two for a pilot; the survey establishes what each camera can see.
| Use case | What SquintPRO detects | What it needs from the campus |
|---|---|---|
| Vehicle gates | Vehicles in and out; plates checked against your lists where cameras are placed for it | Gate cameras positioned for plates, and an owner for the lists |
| Pedestrian gates and doors | People through a gate, and anyone passing outside opening hours | A view of the whole opening; hours per gate |
| Crowding at entrances | People counts and density, with an alert above your threshold | A threshold per entrance and a team that receives the alert |
| Drop-off and bus areas | Vehicles standing where they should not; people in a bus lane | Zones per view, and the peak hours |
| Restricted areas | A person in a laboratory, workshop, plant room, roof or pool area out of hours | Zones and schedules per area |
| A searchable record | Each event logged; footage searched by description or image | Rules for who may search |
Gate access: vehicles, visitors and opening hours
At a vehicle gate, SquintPRO reads the plate on cameras positioned for it, checks it against your lists and records entry and exit; when a read fails, the guard decides from the image. See vehicle access control from the gate camera. At pedestrian gates it alerts when someone passes outside the gate's hours. It does not check who a person is: visitor sign-in and releasing a child to a parent stay with your staff.
Crowding at entrances and drop-off times
The start and end of the day, exams and graduations bring many people to a few entrances at once. SquintPRO measures density in a zone and alerts your team with video when the entrance threshold is crossed, so staff can open another gate in time; see people counting on existing CCTV.
Safety monitoring for schools and universities: labs, roofs and the perimeter
Laboratories and workshops after classes, plant rooms, roofs, pool areas and the fence line at night are places nobody should be at certain hours. SquintPRO alerts, with video, when a person enters a zone drawn on the camera view, as on our restricted-zone intrusion detection page. University workshops carry industrial hazards too; see our industrial safety practice.
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Student privacy: what SquintPRO does not do
Footage from a school shows children, and that sets the first rule. SquintPRO does not use face recognition, does not identify students, staff or visitors, and does not take attendance. Point cameras at gates, entrances, car parks and restricted areas, never washrooms or changing rooms; keep the list of viewers short; and tell students, parents and staff what is monitored. On-premise, retention is set on your servers; the cloud keeps recordings for 3, 6 or 12 months. Footage of identifiable people is personal data under the Personal Data Protection Law, overseen by SDAIA.
What Saudi campuses add: separate sections, heat and the school calendar
Many institutions in the Kingdom run separate campuses or sections, each with its own gates and team, so alerts and dashboards are organised by campus. Midday glare and dim car parks are part of the survey, and the pilot runs in term time. Interkey's engineers carry out the survey, integration and support from Riyadh, in Arabic and English.
How a campus pilot runs
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Camera survey.
Each camera is sorted into usable, usable after adjustment, or needing new hardware; see our camera compatibility guide.
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Pilot scope.
One campus, one or two use cases, and success criteria written first, including the false alerts per day security accepts.
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Privacy settings.
Views, viewer roles and retention are agreed with the data protection lead before the first alert.
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Integration and tuning.
Alerts go into the VMS or control room in use; zones and schedules follow how the campus moves.
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Measurement and rollout.
Results are measured against the criteria; more campuses follow once the pilot passes.
What drives the cost
SquintPRO is licensed per camera stream, with unlimited use cases on a licensed stream, so adding an after-hours alert to a gate camera that already counts people adds no licence. Each quote is built from the streams, the deployment model and any new cameras or servers, such as plate cameras; see the factors behind a SquintPRO quote.
Questions schools and universities ask
Can the cameras at our school recognise students' faces or take attendance?
No. SquintPRO has no face recognition and does not identify students, staff or visitors, so it cannot take attendance. It reports conditions in zones.
Can it warn our security team when a school entrance gets too crowded at the start of the day?
Yes, on a camera that sees the whole entrance. When the count crosses the threshold set for that entrance, the team gets an alert with video and can open another gate.
Will SquintPRO work with the CCTV our university campus already has?
Usually, for most views, over RTSP or ONVIF. The survey sorts each camera; plate reading at vehicle gates often needs cameras positioned for it.
How is SquintPRO priced for a school group or university in Saudi Arabia?
By quote, per camera stream, with unlimited use cases on a licensed stream, following the streams, the deployment model and any new hardware. A group can license one campus first.
Where is footage of our students kept, and does it have to leave the Kingdom?
It does not have to. On-premise, footage stays on campus servers the institution controls; in the cloud, recordings are kept for 3, 6 or 12 months.
How long does a video analytics pilot on one campus take, and who supports it?
It is planned once the survey is done, from the number of cameras and how alerts reach your control room, and runs in term time. Interkey supports it from Riyadh, in Arabic and English.
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Plan a pilot on your campus
Tell us roughly how many cameras your campuses have and which gates or areas worry your team most. We will say which cameras can carry which use cases and what a pilot could measure.
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