Case Study: Pasadena City College eliminates NVR maintenance costs with Verkada hybrid cloud solution

How a College Eliminated NVR Maintenance Costs with a Hybrid Cloud Solution

Pasadena City College (PCC), a public community college serving over 30,000 students, inherited a failing NVR-based surveillance system that left about 20% of cameras offline and relied on end-of-life servers and failing 5,400 RPM drives across 300 cameras on campus and four remote sites. The on-premises setup required frequent physical troubleshooting, costly NVR and PTZ camera replacements, and had no convenient remote access or easy training for rotating campus cadets, so PCC selected Verkada’s hybrid cloud solution to modernize its video infrastructure.

Verkada deployed cloud-managed cameras and a web/app video management platform with People and Vehicle analytics, end-to-end encryption, Power over Ethernet, unlimited user seats, automatic updates, and a 10-year warranty with 48-hour replacement. The result: no more NVR maintenance or manual drive replacements, faster investigations (footage retrieval dropped from about an hour to minutes), simple 10‑minute cadet training, remote management from phone or browser, reduced deployment and energy costs, and freed resources for other campus technology — all delivered by Verkada.

Pasadena City College

Matthew Camara

Assistant Director of Technical Services