Case Study: Greater Wichita YMCA improves security and monitoring with Cisco Meraki

Greater Wichita YMCA saves $500,000 in hardware with Cisco Meraki

The Greater Wichita YMCA, a large nonprofit community organization, faced a significant challenge in securing its massive facilities across 15 locations. Their legacy camera system was complex, requiring staff to manually retrieve footage from multiple DVRs, which was a huge drain on resources and time. To address this, they turned to Cisco Meraki for a new solution involving Meraki MV cloud-managed cameras.

By implementing Cisco Meraki's cloud-managed cameras and sensors, the YMCA gained a centralized dashboard for easy video access and management. The higher resolution of the cameras meant fewer devices were needed to cover large areas, resulting in substantial cost savings. The solution also expanded security capabilities, allowing parents to monitor child play areas and providing critical alerts that averted a potential data center disaster, protecting an estimated $500,000 in hardware.

Greater Wichita YMCA