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“For example, if a person stops moving in a hallway it will flash a view of that camera into the dispatch and they’re triggered to look at it . . . It could also be a bunch of people standing together, or if someone left a backpack, and then that can be investigated.”

Though the cameras are not equipped with facial recognition, the system is meant to allow security and, if necessary, emergency services to track the anomaly and be proactive in their safety plan.

In addition to providing a better range of coverage, the new system ensures that things aren’t missed, which can happen when one person is tasked with watching upwards of 300 live feeds across the 118-acre campus at once.

The new system has already caught a car doing doughnuts in a parking lot and another car hitting a street light on campus.

Part of the safety upgrades include nine blue safety telephones with their own 360-degree cameras nicknamed “Code Blue,” which will be fully operational at various points on campus by the end of the summer.

“We are currently working to augment the process with these (Code Blue) stations so that people can call for help from mostly anywhere at any time, and it will give us a lot more in-depth coverage for those heavily used pedestrian corridors,” Sommerfeld said.

Card readers on the doors will also help the process, Sommerfeld added, and by 2021 at the latest, the entire campus will be able to be locked down in an emergency with the push of a button.