SOLUTION BRIEF Higher Education and K-12: Delivering the campus of tomorrow…today…with Motorola’s indoor/outdoor wireless network solutions Challenges in today’s educational institutions Professors in universities and teachers in K-12 schools are leveraging the power of the Internet to enrich the learning experience for today’s students. Online tests are common. Webinars and podcasts enable professors to disseminate additional information on virtually any subject. On-line posting of assignments, grades, study guides and more helps teachers and administrators ensure student success. In addition, today’s students — the earliest of technology adopters — are growing up in a wireless world, expecting ‘anywhere anytime’ access to whatever information they need, on whatever device is in their hands. The new generation of tech-savvy students might want to watch a Professor’s webinar on a laptop or as a podcast on a mobile device virtually anywhere on campus — from a dormitory room to the library or an outdoor area. Since each graduating class creates a 25 percent turnover in the student body, every year the number of students with 802.11n- enabled laptops increases, along with students’ wireless expectations. Furthermore, the increasing emphasis on campus safety is forcing security personnel to rely on new wireless technologies, from video surveillance to crisis notification systems, to extend their reach and work more efficiently. As a result, universities, colleges and private K-12 institutions must determine how to cost-effectively provide the high-speed wireless access and applications required to enable anywhere, anytime access to the latest tools to not only meet student expectations, but to also improve registration and student safety. Windows Mobile based enterprise applications, The all-wireless campus you can finally have all of your communications converged in a cost-effective mobile device. By leveraging today’s best-in-class wireless networking technologies, colleges, universities and Emergency communications K-12 institutions can address today’s challenges by An 802.11n wireless network provides the highly enabling the all-wireless campus. Today’s high- reliable and pervasive backbone required to support performance 802.11n wireless LAN and wireless a broad range of emergency communications. broadband networks allow the delivery of reliable For example, a wireless electronic message board high-speed wireless voice, video and data inside can be utilized to advise students of a gas leak buildings as well as throughout the campus that requires the evacuation of a section of grounds, providing support for applications that the campus. The ability to reach all faculty and greatly improve the learning environment, campus administrators simultaneously through a group security and the overall productivity of faculty and push-to-talk walkie-talkie style call to Voice over staff — while providing value added services that WLAN (VoWLAN) handsets allows administrators, strengthen relationships with students and their campus security and more to rapidly ‘spread the parents. Applications include: word’ during emergencies. An email or text message can be sent to any wireless device — Real-time faculty and administrative applications on the network or off-campus. A wireless network can provide a wealth of applications that help teachers spend more time Video surveillance on teaching instead of administrative tasks, helping The ability to wirelessly connect video cameras both to improve the overall quality of the education. indoors and outdoors eliminates the high cost of K-12 wireless attendance applications can eliminate wiring, enabling educational institutions to blanket paper forms, saving time, eliminating errors and the campus with video cameras. The result is real enabling rapid identification of missing students. time streaming video, providing visibility into every The ability to send wireless work orders to inch of the campus, enabling security personnel to maintenance staff not only improves productivity, immediately discover and respond to virtually any but also enables faster repair — from a leaky faucet type of on-campus incident. The digital video is or faulty heating unit to the removal of broken glass easy to archive and retrieve, sophisticated analytics in the parking lot — helping to maintain a safer and proactively identify potential problems and the cleaner environment for all. wireless network allows personnel anywhere on campus to watch the video. Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) The same wireless network that provides access e-Citations and Automatic License to the Internet, video and back-end business Plate Recognition applications can also enable the delivery of wireless Mobility allows campus police to carry a mobile voice services. Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) handheld computer that provides access to student handsets provide cost-effective connectivity for information as well as the ability to electronically teachers and administrators throughout campus, issue a citation. Now, campus police can quickly effectively eliminating monthly cell phone service verify vehicle stickers and check for any other fees as well as the need and cost associated with outstanding citations — for example, to help identify running cabling to classrooms. Smartphone-style a repeat offender who parks in areas designated handsets provide a virtual and mobile extension for faculty or emergency vehicles. Auto-fill fields, of the desk phone, complete with the desk drop-down and checkboxes ensure citation accuracy. phone feature set — including abbreviated 4-digit Additionally, the ability to deploy a cost-effective extension dialing, one-number reach, one voicemail ALPR solution enables educational organizations to box, call forwarding, conference calling and more easily and automatically monitor vehicles that are — without replacing the PBX. This same device can entering the campus. When a vehicle that is wanted provide push-to-talk private calls and group calls for or stolen, or associated with outstanding violations immediate connectivity, and can even communicate enters the grounds, campus police are instantly with two-way radios on existing radio systems. notified, enabling the swift action required to help With access to email, messaging, the Internet, and better protect students and faculty. 1 SOLUTION BRIEF: Higher Education and K-12 The many applications in the all-wireless campus • Fixed mobile convergence • Emergency communications • Video surveillance • e-Citations and Automatic License Plate Recognition • Distance learning • Live coverage of sporting events • Automated asset tracking Anytime, anywhere voice and data access…for anyone Distance learning Anytime, anywhere voice and A high-speed wireless network provides a vehicle data access…for anyone to enhance and extend the learning environment. The ability to deliver truly resilient wireless voice In higher education, students can access learning and data services to every corner of your campus portals, course information and online libraries as serves the needs of the student body as well as the well as collaborate with classmates and professors educational institution. Provide anytime anywhere on other campuses. K-12 facilities can give students access to class registration systems, grades, learning online access to class and individual lessons as well portals and student services as well as personal as homework assignments, library services and more. services, such as VoIP and video services, meeting the demands of your students and faculty. With Live coverage of sporting events the real-time access to student transcripts, online Sporting events are an important aspect of every testing and grading applications as well as online school. The wireless network allows schools and knowledge bases, your faculty has the tools required universities to enable easy and cost-effective viewing to deliver an enriched learning experience as well as of the event — live or streamed at a later date. In improve productivity. You can even extend wireless addition, the National Collegiate Athletic Association access to guests — from visiting professors to the (NCAA) in the U.S. requires colleges and universities families of your students — without compromising in certain divisions to provide Internet access in the network security. press boxes. A wireless network eliminates the high cost of cabling these often hard-to-wire areas and provides the flexibility to move press areas as needed. Motorola: making the truly Says Dan Schumacher, Director of Athletics at Lewis University, “It’s more cost effective for us to have wireless campus a reality wireless than to hard wire a press box 300 yards away from the nearest building. Wireless is the answer.” Motorola’s 802.11n wireless networks are helping higher education and K-12 institutions of all sizes Automated asset tracking around the world to realize the promise of the Wi-Fi locationing technology enables the automatic truly wireless campus. With speeds up to six times tracking of assets — from laptop computers in K-12 the bandwidth of 802.11a/g, our indoor/outdoor to expensive medical equipment in a university. Now, 802.11n wireless networks offer the throughput, assets can be easily located when needed, potentially coverage, resiliency and security required to enable reducing inventory requirements. Stolen assets are cost effective delivery of some of the instantly visible, providing a theft deterrent that most demanding applications. protects