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Connected & Secure Campus

About the Project

To promote ease of access and enhance security, Campus Services is expanding Connected & Secure Campus, a program to upgrade access control and integrate a video management system across campus. These enhancements, which were first approved in 2022, provide the Dartmouth community with a more secure, 21st-century experience in line with similar higher education institutions. 

Project Goals

  • Transform the campus into a more secure, mobile-friendly user experience that improves our ability to deliver core services. 

  • Incorporate a video management system within Connected & Secure Campus that enhances the security of areas where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. 

  • Migrate Dartmouth's current ID card platform to a more technically secure one that provides significantly increased functionality. This requires replacing ID cards, access card readers and panels, and many existing physical key locks with access card readers.  

Project Timing

  • The engineering work to design building conversions began in 2024, and access control implementation began in spring of 2025.  

  • Video management system upgrades will be implemented over the next few academic terms. 

  • The full Connected & Secure Campus project is expected to take two to three years to complete. 

What's Currently Happening

  • Connected & Secure Campus upgrades for the new ID system are being completed in the following three phases:  

    • Phase 1—Re-Cabling: Our crews will pull new wire from existing readers and new reader locations through existing low-voltage cable pathways. This work is minimally invasive and typically takes a few days to complete.  

    • Phase 2—Reader Install: Once all the new cables have been pulled and tested for functionality with the old readers, the new readers will be installed. This is also very minimally invasive—often taking less than one hour per reader.  

    • Phase 3—Software Swap-Over: This is often completed in a single day. Once all the new readers are switched over to the new system, all access will be monitored and controlled by the new software.  

 

  • Video management systems will be:  

    • Added to the exterior entrances of existing residence halls (Please note, no cameras capture the inside of private residences). 

    • Incorporated into the exterior entrance design of all new residence halls, including those currently under construction. 

    • Placed to enhance security in large common areas where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy—including Baker-Berry corridor, Baker lawn, the Green, and the waterfront. 

    • Placed alongside "Code Blue" emergency telephones with direct contact to the Department of Safety and Security. 

    • Included as part of increased physical access control enhancements and more security presence around various academic, administrative, and athletic facilities throughout campus. 

Project Team

  • Josh Keniston and Santiago Schnell (Sponsors) 

  • Adrian Meehan (Project Executive) 

  • Thomas Mitchell (Program Director) 

  • Keiselim Alfredo Montas (Director, Department of Safety & Security & Emergency Operations) 

  • Billy Lyons (Access Control Representative) 

  • Ashley Kush (Project Manager)