AI-driven security: safeguarding your house of worship

Each congregant at your house of worship is precious to you. That’s why it’s important to protect them with the best that video surveillance has to offer. 

You might just be thinking about security. Maybe you’re looking to monitor your hallways and main hall of worship and to keep an eye on crowding. But using the power of artificial intelligence, a video surveillance system can do much more. 

Perhaps your concerns are as simple as tracking attendance week over week. Not to mention the importance of observing the children that are entrusted to your children’s ministry each week. Maybe you’d like to provide your church with cameras that have an immediate connection to an emergency call center. Regardless of your specific need, AI-enabled video security can provide the peace of mind you’re seeking.

Keep an eye on weekly turnout.

As a nonprofit religious institution, it’s important for your church, synagogue, or mosque to keep an eye on how many congregants are passing through its doors. You’re sustained primarily by donations, and the amount of those donations is partially determined by your weekly turnout. 

With an AI feature called object counting, your video security system becomes more than just a set of cameras; it provides objective data to fuel your projects and future ministry needs. Object counting lets you know how many programs to print up. It also sets you up to plan well for the weeks and months ahead in terms of staff (and potentially security) needed on site.

Use face matching technology to protect children.

If your video security vendor integrates with Verifyfaces, the world of face matching opens up to you. This can be particularly helpful in managing your children’s ministry, in which different parents or guardians are dropping off and picking up your littlest congregants. Face matching allows you to recognize a person previously stored in your database, providing for a safer child hand-off situation. 

For children who are the objects of custody disputes, this is particularly valuable. Facial recognition also allows you to maintain a database of known offenders and notifies you when they are caught on campus by one of your cameras.

Protect access to sensitive spaces.

When integrated with an access control vendor like Brivo, your video surveillance platform can complement access to more confidential areas of your house of worship. The children’s area and private offices get an extra layer of protection with this cloud-based offering. You get time-stamped views of entry and exit areas. Video footage can be correlated with events and activities from Brivo’s access control system.

Easily search for vandals.

Video surveillance AI can also protect your organization against vandalism and theft. Now you can catch perpetrators on camera and identify them quickly based on attributions: Use Smart Video Search to find the “man in the gray shirt with the black backpack.” You avoid lengthy amounts of time spent scrubbing through video data and get right to the relevant footage.

Be ready when a real emergency happens.

Should a true emergency occur at your religious institution, you’ll be glad your vendor offered a technology like 911 Camera Sharing. This allows designated cameras to connect directly with an emergency telecommunicator if and only if a 911-level situation begins to unfold. Every second counts in these instances and this direct connection to emergency call centers instantly orients them to the scene. They can then communicate to boots on the ground responders. 

Eagle Eye Networks cares about protecting houses of worship. To learn more about 911 Camera Sharing, contact one of our experts now. They can personalize a demo specific to your religious institution’s unique situation.