Case Study: Richardson Independent School District achieves resilient, scalable video surveillance across 54 campuses and 70 facilities with Pivot3

Large School District Secures Over 50 Campuses and 70 Facilities Using Pivot3 Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Richardson Independent School District (RISD) is a large Texas district with 54 campuses, about 38,700 students and 70 facilities. Faced with an aging analog surveillance system that became a complex hybrid as it migrated to IP, RISD was managing 66 separate servers and needed a more resilient, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective video storage solution to ensure mission-critical footage remained available for investigations and safety.

RISD deployed Pivot3’s hyperconverged infrastructure to consolidate compute and storage onto standard servers, creating a unified, highly resilient pool that simplified management, reduced rack space and lowered total cost of ownership. The district now retains video for a minimum of 30 days, has seen vandalism drop dramatically (after adding four cameras they now average about one broken window per year), and has a scalable platform for future analytics like face detection and automated search.

Richardson Independent School District

Scott Porter

Project Manager