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Schools In Focus: Improve Building Health, Safety, and Security with Smart Sensor Technology

  • By Matt Jones
  • 03/21/22

Schools In Focus is a podcast dedicated to the design, planning and management of educational facilities and campuses. Listen in as we chat with industry experts, facility managers, architects, security and safety professionals, and other thought leaders. Catch up on previous episodes here.

This episode's topic is "Improving Building Health, Safety and Security with Smart Sensor Technology," and our guest is Mike Davis, National Sales Manager for IPVideo. We'll talk about the different types of sensors and the variety of data they can collect, from physical to chemical to environmental to security. From there, we'll go into the limitless applications of what organizations can do with a "Swiss Army Knife" of sensors to keep building occupants safe and secure. This episode is sponsored by IPVideo.

Schools In Focus, Episode 24: Improve Building Health, Safety, and Security with Smart Sensor Technology

 

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About the Author

Matt Jones is senior editor of Spaces4Learning. He can be reached at [email protected].

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