How to Improve Safety of School Enviroment

The school infrastructures closely intertwined in critical node of networks in urban area. Modern critical-system infrastructure includes combination of computational and physical components, known as cyber-physical system (CPS). However, a comprehensive approach to develop resilience concept for a combination of such systems, as they are often designed in modern urban areas, has not yet been approached thoroughly. The aim of this paper is to provide an improved understanding of a safe school environment as well as to pose cost effective and transparent school security systems. The paper is based on the results and lessons learned from the “Security and Safety in Universities” project executed during 2009-2010 and the results will be applied within a building process of a new school campus in Finland. Based on the results of our case study, it is proposed that a safe school environment should consist of two important components of cyber-physical security: (1) technical control and timely notification of emergency situations and (2) a safety room. The first component includes: access control, camera surveillance, sensor monitoring, technical guidance to the exit and informing. Safety room is designed to monitor the safety and emergency management and information technology.