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Harmonix Technologies Education Solutions Defined

GPS/RFID Solutions: GPS on buses allows systems to provide out calling to parents when bus is due to reach the stop in their area. Also RFID Technologies can track all schools assets via satellite to deter theft and enhance tracking. RFID Technologies can also be imbedded into Student ID cards for real time tracking of students within the campus environment. This type of card tracking also can track when students board the bus or the time and gate they leave the school campus. Access can also be delivered through the RFID card solution; for door access, automated attendance tracking, and student identification and smart cards for lunch purchases and books or computer checkout.
Benefit: Offers schools additional security benefits

ONSSI IP Surveillance Systems: Provides districts with security cameras and applications operating over IP network. This solution utilizes your schools existing data network to deliver camera surveillance throughout your district. This solution provides easier monitoring of outdoor area through data wireless and improved storage through the utilization of data storage systems. This allows the district to more effectively manage and track its security as all databases are digital rather than tape. Applications are also more flexible as events such as doors opening or windows breaking can initiate video surveillance and alert security personnel.
Benefit: Safer schools with more ability to track and arrest criminals.

Bandwidth-on-Demand: Harmonix Technologies SCS feature supports important video applications, including distance learning and video collaboration.
Benefit: Allows for multi-service use of network facilities for voice, video and data applications through converged WAN architecture. Provides a fast, easy way for teachers and staff to confer and collaborate while effectively utilizing district network.

Centralized Architecture: Harmonix Solutions for schools allow for the centralization of all call flows into on attendant position. Our solutions also allow for the monitoring of systems from a single site, for security cameras and data management. .
Benefit: Minimizes staff requirements, including finding back up when an attendant is absent: frees staff for other critical tasks.

Multi-Service Networking for Voice, Video and Data: System Design Feature that helps a school district share resources and operate as if it were a single, large campus. Our systems are designed as Layer 3 Capable Multi-service networks. This allows the enterprise to run voice, video, data, effectively over a single network. The advantages are unlimited as all applications run on IP and can be integrated to improve the school’s internal workings. For example: The IP Surveillance can be tied into the data network to monitor when a particular
Benefit: Permits a centrally located administrator to monitor and manage communications across the district. Also generates savings to the district through convergence value proposition.

District-wide Extension Dialing: Harmonix Technologies’ Solutions for Schools feature a 4-digit dial plan across the school district.
Benefit: Provides a fast, easy way for teachers and staff to confer and collaborate.

Environmental Controls: Provides facilities management systems to monitor and manage building heat, air conditioning, and other devices that consume power. These control systems can be centralized and managed over the wide area network and create savings.
Benefit: Helps schools to minimize energy consumption and increase efficiency.

Homework Hotline: IVR application that allows parents and guardians to dial in to listen to their children's current and future homework assignments and hear broadcast messages from the teachers.
Benefit: Opens new lines of communications between schools and parents and helps parents monitor students’ assignments.

Data Networking: The Cisco, Extreme or HP solution will provide a gateway to the Internet for smaller school districts. This solution includes a Web browser, E-mail client, and FTP client. Multi-service LAN and WAN capability provides for ubiquitous access to voice, video and data through Cat 6 cabling and Layer 3 Switching fabric.
Benefit: Gives small districts simple, secure, and inexpensive Internet access. Converged LAN and WAN create benefits in Network Management, application equipment support costs, and curriculum multimedia delivery systems.

LAN Implementation: Provides a complete LAN implementation package. Offers a wide variety of servers including IBM, Dell, HP; loading of software; Novell NetWare and Windows NT operating systems; I/O cards; internal modems; memory; hard drives; CD- ROM drives; testing; delivery; installation; support; and maintenance. Assist in integration of IBM-AS 400 student tracking packages.
Benefit: Enables users within a school building to access and share information such as lesson plans, administrative information, government reporting, and specialized information.

Media IP Video Distribution: Gives teachers and students classroom access to a wealth of information on IP TV. Television programs and films are saved in the server environment and called up over the data network and launched to the PC’s or televisions in the classrooms. Other media available include, video, CD-ROMs, laser discs, still video, cable TV, satellite transmissions, and computers.
Benefit: Helps teachers capture the attention of today’s visually oriented students.

Paging/PagePac: Provides a complete range of paging capabilities, including announcements to the entire school, delivery of messages to individual teachers or students, bells or tones, and visual communications.
Benefit: Provides state-of-the-art solutions for essential real-time communications. These solutions can be customized to suit your school district’s exact needs.

Parent-Teacher Dialog: IVR application that provides a private 2-way voice mailbox so educators and parents can send and receive voice messages.
Benefit: Provides an easy and efficient way for teachers to leave progress reports for parents and for parents to respond to teachers or request additional information.

Professional Services: Provides the expertise to design the right architecture and mix of products, coordinates provisioning and component integration, remotely monitors the network, troubleshoots problems, and offers maintenance agreements beyond the normal warranty period.
Benefit: Helps districts maximize the effectiveness of their solutions for schools components.

Certified Structured Cabling Systems: Cabling represents the highways that will carry the traffic of voice, video and data. At Harmonix we believe in using only Category 6 or higher structured cabling to insure that this investment will ast as long as possible and that the network’s foundation is solid.
Benefit: Protects the district’s wiring investment with cabling that can handle the high-speed data applications and broadband video applications that are now emerging.

Directory Access: CTI application that provides point-and-click directory and calling services. Schools can establish activities and club calling lists for faster access to these numbers.
Benefit: Makes parental contact easier and vendor communications more efficient.

Video Conferencing: A multi-vendor solution that enables schools to implement point-to-point and multipoint video conferencing solutions.
Benefit: Enables school districts to improve education cost effectively and enrich their curriculum by pooling resources with other districts, such as special education programs, programs for the disabled, remote users, and advanced courses in math, sciences and languages.

Voice Mail and Messaging Solutions: Provides messaging and mailbox capabilities for administrators, teachers, and other key personnel.
Benefit: Improves communication between the community and the school, improves operations, and enhances education, all without adding personnel.

Wireless Applications: Allows Internet applications to be delivered to the campus environment. Students can then do outdoor biology project with each student having a Lap Top connected to the internet to help identify items in nature. This also allows students and facility to have Internet/Phone service while on the campus outdoors.
Benefit: Enable the district superintendent and other key district administrators to be reachable at a single number as they travel through the district. Provide instant contact for security and coaching and custodial staff.

Firewall Applications: Supports blocking of access to unwanted web sites and provides for increased network security.
Benefit: Enables the district superintendent and other key district administrators to determine which sites are acceptable for viewing by student population. Secures school network from the outside world and holds vital private information secure.

Servers and Workstations: Allows for the transport and use of multimedia applications through the network to the workstation end user. Web servers increase Internet speed to the desktop through web cashing. When coupled with switching technology the cashing technology is dispersed further out to the MDF’s and IDF’s greatly increasing Internet speeds.
Benefit: Allows for less traffic on the WAN links, greatly increasing efficiencies. By pushing Internet cashing to the closets, capacity is opened up through the entire network.