Yale University calls in G4S’ AMAG Technology for new security system

AMAG Technology has completed a full-scale security system upgrade for Yale University - one of the world's leading academic institutions.

G4S-owned AMAG Technology carried out the upgrade across 350 main campus buildings almost unnoticed over the course of at least two years.

Yale in New Haven, Connecticut has more than 12,400 students and 51,871 people on campus every day. The university introduced AMAG’s Symmetry SR Retrofit System so that it could manage security from a single point of contact, increase the ability to monitor movement, and enhance self-service access control.

Some of Yale’s buildings are 200 years old with three-foot stone walls, but AMAG’s retrofit solution helped avoid a costly ‘rip and replace’ process and saved millions of dollars.

Yale’s director of information technology David Boyd said the new Symmetry system means the main campus now has a single point of contact and enables the university to manage threat levels and identities.

AMAG's vice president of global sales Jody Ross said: “Working closely with Yale and making sure that they were able to keep their existing infrastructure absolutely gave us the edge over our competitors.

“We worked with Yale and their integrator during the university breaks and holidays to ensure that people on campus did not notice any change.”

Some 5,200 access card readers are located across the university’s 345-acre central campus with students using their ID cards to purchase food, borrow library books, and as an access control card.