Schools, Colleges and Universities are places where the future of a country or society is reliant on. The opportunity to exchange ideas and learning should never be compromised by issues of safety and security. Security is becoming a major concern for students, parents or teachers due to escalating incidents like assaults on teachers, theft in exam halls, sexual assaults of female students, fire tragedies and cases of ragging in the educational premises. Many establishments have taken a step ahead by installing sophisticated security systems that can safeguard its people and premises to maintain dynamic learning campus. Matrix COSEC solution is a range of intelligently designed products to meet all critical requirements of the education industry. It helps education institutions meet their demand of sending SMS/Email notification to parents, monthly attendance of students and staff, restricted access to labs, cafeteria management and video surveillance. Thus, Matrix provides a unique solution to the educational institutes, allowing students and staff to focus on gaining knowledge.
Schools and colleges often tend to have misbehaving students. Maintaining security and attendance discipline within the educational environment is another challenge that these institutions face. This generates the demand for a security system, which is rugged and can handle tampering. Matrix security system generates an alarm when anyone tries to tamper the system. Time trigger feature of the system can automatically ring a bell between two different classes or for lunch break.
Security of their ward is always a concern for today’s parents. Hence, they always demand timely updates of their wards from the schools. With Matrix COSEC, educational institutes can send SMS or Email Notification to parents about their ward’s attendance, having reached school safely, parents meeting, etc.
It is very common in schools and colleges that students have a tendency to do proxy attendance for their friends or are forced to do it for bullies. However, when the attendance data is collected through biometric systems, buddy punching no longer remains a problem for schools and colleges.
Security of students, staff or existing infrastructure like research lab or computer lab is of paramount importance for any educational institution. Simultaneously, maintaining attendance records of students and staff is a must in order to retain discipline within the institute. Matrix supports educational institutes in generating attendance reports for the current date/month, last month or even for a defined date. Proxy attendance can be reduced to a great extent by using Matrix fingerprint Time-Attendance system. Attendance reports or any other report can be transferred into various formats like excel, text, csv and xml for further actions.
Parents worry that their wards might lose money. Matrix provides cashless management solutions, which can be used at every place where cash is involved, especially at the cafeteria. On each cafeteria visit, students can place orders the balance present against their credentials or the maximum usage allowed on a daily basis. This way parents don’t have to worry about their wards losing cash or misusing cash.