FingerTec Newsletter Vol: 06 Year: 2015 | FingerTec Integrates with Lithuania’s Safe School System Program for a Safer School Environment

FingerTec Integrates with Lithuania’s Safe School System Program for a Safer School Environment

Concerned over the increasing crime rate the world over, various measures are being taken by individuals and authorities to heighten the sense of security. According to the recent FBI statistics, thousands of children become victims of crimes through various methods such as kidnappings, violent attacks, sexual abuse, or online predators. School shootings is another form of violence that has been inflicting schools around the world and the more recent incident happened last year in Viljandi, Estonia where a 15-year-old boy killed his teacher with a gun in Paalalinna school. Reacting to the demand to improve the safety of school children in Lithuania, FingerTec’s reseller, SS Solutions has designed a system named as Saugi Mokykla (SAMO) which means in Lithuanian Safe School System to tackle the safety loopholes that could exist in a school environment.

SAMO consists of 3 components, which are, the verification terminal, the barrier gate and the software. For this solution, SS Solutions incorporated Kadex, R2 and m-Kadex to be installed on turnstile barriers as physical protection to limit access to only staff and students who are enrolled into the system into the school. To integrate the system with FingerTec’s hardware and the turnstile, SS Solution utilized FingerTec BioBridge Software Development Kit provided by FingerTec and developed their own web-based solution fully integrated into an electronic diary software unique for the school.

As of today, 11 schools throughout Lithuania have been using the SAMO system involving around 80 units of various FingerTec hardware. Amongst the schools that are using SAMO include KaunoTado Ivanauskas School 6 R2 units, Šeškinė High School 8 Kadex units, Mažeikių Kalnėnų High School 8 units of Kadex, Mickevičiaus School uses a combination of 2 Kadex and 4 m-kadex, and 7 other schools installed FingerTec hardware as its verification system under SAMO.

SAMO will alert parents through an SMS message or an email in cases where their children were tardy or absent from school. Some leeway will be provided by the schools to students whose parents have provided reasons of their absences or lateness to the school.

The system has received rave reviews from the parents and teachers alike because this system has been able to solve various impending problems . Now with SAMO and FingerTec installed, no unauthorized person will be given access to the school grounds without proper authorization and both parents and teachers will be notified if the students were absent or skipped classes. SAMO's also being used as a tool to detect who are in the building in cases of emergency like fire at school. Having a system like SAMO and FingerTec hardware installed leave students with a very small window to commit tardiness in school and the parents will havea peace of mind knowing that their children are in good hands.

SS Solutions knows the value of good integration and they utilized FingerTec's BioBridge SDK to their advantage with SAMO. SS Solutions has been FingerTec reseller in Lithuania since 2009, and their office is located in the capital Vilnius.