For university personnel, in particular campus IT, summer break represents the ideal testing ground for new opportunities and system upgrades. In a recent piece for EdScoop, Splunk’s VP of Public Sector, Kevin Davis, lays out his top three university IT projects that are perfect to tackle during the summer.

Biometric identification solutions provider, FST Biometrics, has installed its In Motion Identification (IMID) system at England’s Wellington College to provide secure access and an enhanced customer experience for students and members of the Wellington Health & Fitness Club.

Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to campus from spring break to find that school officials were busy during the week layover. Students returned to campus to find stronger security protocols in place following the shooting that occurred at the Parkland, Fla. high school in February.

A new system is being tested at schools in Kolkata, India that leverage Wi-Fi, Bluetooth beacons and GPS functionality to track the movement of students while on campus. The reason for the initiative is to better ensure student safety while on school premises.

BadgePass has integrated its enterprise campus card commerce system, TotalCard, with LENSEC’s video surveillance software, Perspective VMS. The integration between the two systems will enable campus users to benefit from LENSEC’s suite of surveillance capabilities from within the TotalCard admin portal.

Automated school safety and operations services provider, ScholarChip, has made a version of its Enterprise-class Visitor Management program available to eligible schools free of charge. The move is designed to provide K-12 schools, regardless of their budget, with at least a basic level of campus safety.

Kent State University is in the process of updating and replacing more door locks in campus residence halls to enable student ID cards to unlock dorm rooms. This latest batch of lock upgrades brings the campus-wide project closer to its completion.