Awera
For Schools & campuses

Give every camera on your campus a brain.

Awera watches the CCTV your school already has and tells the office the moment something needs a person — a gate left open, a crowd building, a child who has not reached class.

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Schools & campuses, on the cameras already there. Everything in this film runs on your own feeds: no new cameras, no rewiring. Watch with sound

Use cases

What Awera watches for at schools and campuses.

Some of the things it catches on your campus, day and night:

🚷

Unauthorized adult on campus

A stranger past the gate, flagged before they reach the children.

🧗

Jumping the boundary wall

A student climbing over the compound wall to slip in or out.

🚶

Roaming during class hours

A student in the corridors or grounds when they should be in class.

🎒

Slipping out of campus

A student leaving through a gate in the middle of the day.

🚬

Smoking or substance use

Students doing what they shouldn't in a washroom block or quiet corner.

🔪

Weapon or dangerous object

Something drawn or brandished in a corridor or the yard.

🥊

Fights & bullying

A scuffle, shoving, or a child cornered by a group.

👥

Crush at the gate

Dangerous crowding at drop-off or dismissal.

🚑

A student down or hurt

A fall or collapse that needs someone right now.

⛔

Students in off-limits areas

Rooftop, labs, or staff rooms during the wrong hours.

🌙

After-hours intruder

Someone on the grounds when the school is closed.

📱

Phone use on campus

A student on a mobile in class or an exam hall where it isn't allowed.

📹

Camera tampering or blackout

A camera covered, turned away, or suddenly blind.

🔥

Fire & smoke

Smoke or flame anywhere on campus, flagged in seconds.

🛑

Blocked fire exit or lane

An escape route or fire lane obstructed.

🧳

Unattended bag or object

A bag left in a corridor, the yard, or at the gate.

🚗

Vehicle where it shouldn't be

A car in the bus bay, gate lane, or play area.

💧

Water leak or flooding

A leak spreading in a corridor or the basement.

Custom rules

Not on the list? Tell it what to watch.

Add your own checks in plain English — Awera watches for those too.

The console

A Thursday on campus, counted from the gate.

Who is on campus, which class is under, how the gate crush went, and whether the perimeter round and the locks are done.

Awera console · St. Anne's CampusExample figures · the shape of the screen, not a customer's numbers

Thursday on a 40-camera school campus.

St. Anne's Campus · 40 cameras
TodayAll camerasAsk anything…
Metricswhat the cameras count here
Attendance this morning94%1,128 of 1,200 · 3 classes under 85%
On campus now1,131staff 84 · visitors 2
Gate arrivals, peak61 in 5 min07:52 to 07:57 · a second gate halves it
Playground now24 students2 staff · break ends 11:15

Students arriving at the gate today, with the routines and automations marked on it

03061now 15:1800:0006:0012:0018:0000:0007:44 Gate opened07:55 Gate at its busiest08:20 Attendance counted08:32 Class 7C under 85% → year head told11:00 Break15:05 Dismissal peak16:30 Perimeter round17:00 Science block lock18:00 Gate lock
countedroutine doneautomation fireddue later
● LIVEMain gate · CAM-01gate locked · 0 waiting
  • Block A · 12 classes96% present
  • Block B · 10 classes93% present
  • Block C · 9 classes89% · class 7C at 78%
  • Playground24 students · 2 staff
  • Library31 students
  • Bus bayempty
Routineswhat must happen on a schedule, and whether it did

Today 1 of 4

1 of 4 done today · next: Perimeter round at 16:30
  • Gate opendone07:44
  • Perimeter rounddue
  • Science block lockdue
  • Gate lockdue

This week

MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Gate open07:45
Perimeter round16:30
Science block lock17:00
Gate lock18:00
done on timelatemissed, someone was told
Automationswatched all the time, act the moment it happens
WhenThenToday
countA class under 85% by 08:30→WhatsApp the year headfired 1×08:32 · class 7C, third day
countMore than 40 students in one corridor→Alert the duty teacherwatchinglast Mon 15:22 · at the gate
timeGate open outside bell times→Alert the officewatchinglast Fri 12:10
eventAn adult not on the staff list inside the gate→Call the officewatchinglast week · a parent, signed in
eventA student down or hurt→Call the office and the nursewatchingnever · watched on all 40 cameras

Today, in one paragraph Highlights · sent at 18:00

Gate opened at 07:44, crush peaked at 07:55, attendance 94% by 08:20. Class 7C is under 85% for the third day and the year head has been told. Perimeter round, science block lock and gate lock are due this afternoon.

Example figures, shaped like a real week. The screens are the product’s own.

The same product, set up for your place.

1 · Your cameras

No rip-and-replace. Awera runs on the CCTV you already have.

2 · The brain

Every feed is understood in plain language and checked against the rules above, 24/7.

3 · The alert

Only what matters reaches your people — in seconds, on WhatsApp or a call.

Teams and sites

One account for every site you run, with a role for each person.

The office sees the gate. The head sees the campus. The trust sees every school.

A role for each person

Nobody opens footage that is not theirs.

ShiftMgrYou
Their own area✓✓✓
The whole site·✓✓
Every site··✓
Add people··✓

Set once, per person, per site.

Every site on one login

A school group on one account: attendance and the gate, campus by campus, without a phone call.

St. Anne’s Campus40 cameras
Oakfield Juniorneeds you
Ridgeway Senior52 cameras
Brookside Annexe16 cameras

Alerts follow the rota

Until a real person has it.

1
The person on dutycalled 22:14 · no answer
2
Two minutes latermoved down the list
✓
The manager answered22:16 · handled
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FAQ

The questions people running schools and campuses ask.

Is there a web console for the school office, or is it phone only?

Both. The office and the head use the web console on a screen: attendance counted in by block, students on campus, the gate at drop-off, and whether the perimeter round and the gate lock happened. The alerts, a class under its threshold or a crowd building at the gate, go to the phone of the duty teacher or the site manager, by WhatsApp or a call.

Can the head, the office and the site manager share one account, across two campuses?

Yes. One account with roles. The site manager sees the gates, the perimeter and the car park. The office sees attendance and the corridors. Year heads can be given only their block. The head sees everything, and a trust with several campuses sees all of them on one screen, without anyone changing another campus's rules.

Can it take attendance, and can it tell us how many students are on campus?

It counts students in at the gate and at classroom doors and gives you attendance by block by 08:20, without recognising any child. It also counts who is in view of each camera live: the playground, a corridor, the library. Students on campus now comes from the gate counts and drifts a little through the day, so it is shown as a count at the door, not a register. Your register stays the register.

Will it confirm the perimeter round and the gate lock were done?

Yes. You set the routines: gate open at 07:45, perimeter round at 16:30, science block lock at 17:00, gate lock at 18:00. Awera watches for the person on the route and marks each done, late or missed for every day of the week. A missed lock reaches the site manager that evening, not after a break-in.

Parents will ask: is it identifying our children?

No. It counts children and watches for moments, a crowd at the gate, a student in a corridor during class, an adult who is not on the staff list inside the gate. It does not recognise faces, and nothing about an individual child is stored. The footage stays on the school's recorder. Only a clip of a flagged moment leaves, encrypted, with faces blurred on the device if the school chooses.

Our campus cameras were installed years ago by different contractors. Will it work?

In most cases, yes. The Awera device sits beside your recorder and takes the feeds it already records, from Hikvision, CP Plus, Dahua, Axis and any ONVIF or RTSP camera, whoever fitted them. A very old low-resolution camera on a far corner of the field may not give a usable count, and we will tell you which on day one. The trial starts with ten cameras that do.

Will it ring the office every time students run in a corridor?

No. Children moving between lessons is a school. The rules are the school's: a student in a corridor during a lesson, more than the safe number at one gate, an adult inside who is not staff, after-hours presence in a block. Each is tuned to your timetable during the trial. On the rare critical event, a fight or a child hurt, a person still makes the final call.

Can it help with the crush at the gate at drop-off?

Yes. Live, it tells the duty staff when the number at the gate passes what you consider safe, so a second gate opens before it becomes a problem. Over the week the console shows arrivals by five-minute slot, and the peak is almost always the same slot every day. Most schools find that opening the side gate ten minutes earlier halves it.

30 minutes, on footage like yours

Book a demo for schools and campuses.

We show Awera running on a place like yours, map your top scenarios to the console, and give you an indicative price for your camera count. Then, if you want it, a 30-day trial on your own cameras.