Education

The educational sector is often characterized by large campuses. In the ideal scenario, these campuses consist of buildings that are in close proximity with each other. However, for most historical high schools and universities, the number of buildings has  grown organically over the years, sometimes even over centuries, in and around large cities. This begs the question: "how can an educational organization monitor and manage all safety, security and buildings systems of their campuses, even when the systems are older and of different types and vendors?"

In most cases this wide range of different types of systems results to a control room or a technical space in which operators need to be able to work with many different interfaces and software packages. They need to have knowledge and or training for each and every one of the software packages.

There is a lot of human traffic with the many buildings and services provided by educational institutions. On most weekdays every building will be used by different groups of students, teachers, directors, technical staff and so on. With Sky-Walker, the nightmare of guaranteeing public safety for each and everyone of the stakeholders becomes an easy task. Sky-Walker enables the operators in the technical space or the control room to monitor the multi-site campuses easily and intuitively. The main advantage is the fact that operators only need to know how to use Sky-Walker, instead of the large number of different interfaces and software packages that came with the clutter of different systems.

Facility managers can use Sky-Walker to make the daily life on campus more comfortable for visitors, but also to reduce energy costs and save time. For instance: when people forget to turn of lights, heating, windows and so, when they leave a room, energy is spilled. If it happens sometimes, in one building, it's not that big of a deal. However, in large multi-site and even multi-city campuses it can grow to a rather large waste of sources. With Sky-Walker you can not only double-check if in an empty room is ‘turned off’, but you can also control the heating, lighting etc. from a remote desktop where in the past you had to check everything manually. All these actions can also be linked to an automatic timer, based on a time schedule.