Learn how mobile surveillance solutions can enhance safety and security during football games.
It’s that time of year again, folks; Friday night lights are calling fans to school fields, campus stadiums, and professional domes nationwide. However, as visions of painted faces, foam fingers, and jersey-clad players emerging from the tunnel dance in your head, you can’t ignore the security concerns that arise when crowds start showing up to your venue for the big game.
Football games can be complicated events to secure, but it can be done simply and efficiently with a flexible, customizable security solution. Read on to discover how you can maintain the peace and security of these unforgettable nights under the lights with the help of intuitive mobile surveillance.
Organizers of football games face unique security challenges. Huge crowds, as well as massively elevated foot traffic, make for a complex and potentially tense situation, and call for a security solution that’s flexible, comprehensive, and intuitive.
The crowds at football games are diverse and often unruly, and security risks can arise very quickly. These include, but aren’t limited to mass violence, brawls, child safety and kidnapping, theft, and vandalism.
School security cameras, parking lot security camera systems, stadium security, and other measures need to be adaptable and efficient in both preventing and responding to incidents at games.
There are some situations in which fixed, unchanging systems and mounted, stationary cameras provide adequate security coverage for a location or event; a football game is not one of those situations.
The ever-evolving nature of a sporting event, as well as the diversity and immensity of the throngs of attendees, necessitate a mobile solution that covers groups and individuals as they move and as situations change. Mobile surveillance refers to portable devices like mobile surveillance units, drones, and body-worn cameras, as well as to the software and infrastructure that power them. This security method allows you to customize your crime prevention efforts in response to shifts in crowd size and location, volatile situations that erupt, overall event dynamics, and other key factors.
Threats change rapidly and often without warning, and your response to them needs to be equally as changeable. Mobile surveillance can cover larger areas than fixed solutions, be better applied and suited to your event’s specific needs, and can be moved to follow potential threat hotspots, making them ideal for a stadium setting.
Every game and location is unique. Before picking out mobile surveillance solutions, you must assess your property and event details to identify security needs. For example, the number and size of your venue’s parking lots may vary, along with your stadium’s capacity and the crime rate of its surrounding location. Your stadium may have a unique layout with vulnerable areas, and a particularly bitter rivalry may necessitate fluctuating security measures to deter and dissolve brawls.
Once you’ve assessed your venue and events, choose a mobile surveillance solution that utilizes cutting-edge technology, has all of the features you need, and integrates well with your existing security.
Innovation is everything because threats continually evolve and change. Select only the most current technology for your mobile surveillance, and be sure it’s durable, reliable, accurate, and high-quality. Find units with features that make your security even better, including deterrent lighting, motion detection, AI footage analysis, and more. More advanced units can be integrated with existing access control systems, alarms, and more.
One of the biggest perks of mobile surveillance is the use of mobile power sources, which allow you to plan your security measures free of the restrictions of your venue’s power grid. With a mobile power source, your mobile surveillance unit can be placed anywhere—in the middle of a parking lot, on the side of a thru-street, or in any other location where you need security.
Ensure that your surveillance units’ power sources are reliable, long-lasting, and environmentally friendly. LVT, for example, uses solar panels first, supplemented by self-sufficient smart generators that are hands-free, weather-durable, clean, and hold six deep-cycle batteries’ worth of backup power.
Even if you’ve found the most durable, portable, and high-tech mobile surveillance units on the market, you’ll only achieve a comprehensive and unified security approach if they can be integrated with your other security measures. To be truly effective, your mobile surveillance must be able to connect with command centers, enable timely communication and response, and utilize intuitive software that links with other systems, such as alarms and access control.
Train all members of your security team on your mobile surveillance and its software, so that all threats can be responded to quickly and efficiently. Be sure that the footage and data from your mobile surveillance units are being retrieved and analyzed so that no issue goes unnoticed. LVT’s smart video analytics capabilities can help identify and sift through threats while saving your security team members valuable time.
As part of its extensive and diverse portfolio of satisfied clients and well-implemented security solutions, LVT is well-practiced in securing large-scale sporting events with mobile solutions.
The Philadelphia Phillies baseball franchise, for example, employs LVT mobile surveillance units in their parking lots to supplement their existing infrastructure and protect areas that require a more flexible solution. With fan attendance during their 2019 season surpassing 68 million people, the Phillies security team wanted to ensure the safety of their loyal fan base, and have given glowing feedback on their experience. The cameras have been immensely useful in resolving and deterring incidents, and the team cites the units’ audio speakers and impressive power sources as key factors in their success.
Philadelphia Phillies Director of Operations and Security Salvatore DiAngelis remarked, “If [fans] don’t feel safe, they’re not going to come to the ballpark… I believe in the product, I’ve seen the capabilities of what it can do…It solved a problem for us that we knew we had in our parking lot.”
Mobile surveillance is a powerful solution to the security concerns that plague stadium owners, campus security teams, and anyone else involved in hosting sporting events. This method allows security personnel to secure their venues in the most customizable way so that every base is covered and every fan is protected.
When securing your games this football season, you can trust LVT to provide the reliable, flexible security your venue needs to carry out events safely and peacefully. With dependable and clean power sources, customizable and cutting-edge features, and impressive portability, LVT units are the smartest choice to keep your football fans safe this season and beyond.
