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Student Accommodation Security: Protecting students and staff

Clearway provides student accommodation security systems that help universities and property managers protect students, control building access and monitor residential environments across student housing sites. Student accommodation security is a comprehensive approach to safeguarding student housing through measures such as access controls, visitor management systems, CCTV surveillance, and AI-enabled monitoring to deter and detect unauthorised access, theft, and other security threats.

Landlords and property managers who own or oversee student accommodation are responsible for providing safe, secure housing – particularly given that many students live in shared spaces, with a regular turnover of tenants, and may be living independently for the first time. That means making sure that the accommodation is secure.

Student accommodation security approaches can protect tenants from criminal entry, trespassing, unwanted behaviour, and theft. They can also safeguard the value and contents of a rented property or shared housing and ensure landlords and supervisors do not encounter unexpected overheads associated with high instances of crime, complaints, or insurance premiums.

Clearway’s accomplished security advisers are always on hand to create customised security plans based on your concerns, risk assessment outcomes, budgets, and the nature of your student-tenanted properties.

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We offer:

  • Customised, advanced and cost-efficient student accommodation security adapted to your property, layout, assessed risks and prevalent security concerns.
  • Access to cohesive and integrated security solutions that blend surveillance, alarms, automated access controls, and visitor management systems ideal for student accommodation.
  • AI-enabled student accommodation security that preempts and predicts suspicious behaviour or movement patterns that require rapid intervention.
  • Independent, professional insights into the right devices, placements, configurations and monitoring solutions for comprehensive, ongoing security management.
  • Property-specific security controls or wider-scope student accommodation security for larger complexes, on-campus dorms and property portfolios.

Our Student Accommodation Security Systems

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Student Accommodation Access Controls

Building-specific access controls can incorporate keycode entry systems, biometric scanners, and access fobs, ensuring that any entry attempt by an unverified or unapproved individual is unsuccessful while supporting streamlined access for student tenants and their authorised guests.

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Visitor Management Systems

Designed and programmed for buildings with steady user flows, visitor management reduces reliance on manual guarding or sign-in processes. It records every arrival and departure, verifies a visitor’s identity, and scans ID documents or student passes before allowing a visitor to enter the building.

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Student Accommodation CCTV

Intelligent CCTV monitoring deters unwanted behaviour and criminal activity and is often integrated with our centralised Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC). The latest leading-edge functionality adds to the effectiveness of student accommodation CCTV, using behavioural analytics and facial recognition to spot unusual or suspicious movements and deploy security guards or emergency services as required.

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Commercial Grade Intruder Alarms

Commercial-grade intruder alarms can be installed at any entry point around student accommodation. Options like video-verified alarms are most applicable for accommodation buildings with vacant periods, during which break-ins are more common. Security responders can ascertain quickly whether there is a live threat that requires an immediate response.

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Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)

ANPR is used throughout private car parking facilities, student entrances, and complexes with halls and dorms, cross-checking the number plate of every approaching vehicle against a secure database. While student cars and known delivery or tradespeople can enter without delay, any unknown vehicle will not be permitted to enter through automated bollards or gates until its credentials can be verified.

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AI-Enabled Security Solutions

AI-powered student accommodation security provides an added level of functionality and warning about anything untoward that either needs an in-person security response or requires ongoing tracking to check if a crime or disturbance becomes likely. Features like movement analytics can, for instance, detect loitering and differentiate it from normal patterns, transmitting an alert to enable security patrols to investigate.

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What Do We Protect Against?

The right combination of surveillance, alarm systems, monitoring, and access controls will vary between buildings and premises.

Still, in every instance, they can act as a deterrent, identify crime or suspicious activity, and enhance building controls to ensure only verified tenants or authorised guests can access the property.

Thefts and Break-ins:

Student accommodation commonly houses multiple tenants, with potentially fast tenant turnovers, each with keys. This can increase vulnerability to break-ins or thefts that might not be immediately noticed. Always-on surveillance and access controls can prevent unverified individuals from entering, protecting tenant’s property and the building assets from theft.

Unauthorised Guests or Intruders:

Multi-tenanted properties are exposed to unwanted intrusions, especially where lax entry permissions enable trespassers to access communal areas unchecked. Visitor management and access control solutions effectively stop anybody but known tenants and their authorised guests from accessing any aspect of the property.

Harassment or Threatening Behaviour:

Concerns around harassment, assault, unwanted behaviour and abuse are unfortunately high among young adults. Cutting-edge security ensures student well-being is a priority, without the potential for perpetrators to enter student housing and giving tenants the ability to summon help rapidly or automatically.

Vandalism and Squatting:

Allowing open entry to a student accommodation building can enable varied unwanted activities to occur, such as vandalism, graffiti, and squatting. Putting professional security measures in place protects against this and raises the alarm immediately when unknown or unwanted activity is detected.

Antisocial Behaviour:

Disorderly conduct, inebriation, unsafe social gatherings, and parties that become out of control may be rare but can have serious repercussions. Student housing with effective security protects tenants and safeguards the landlord’s or manager’s right to challenge, deescalate, or remove disruptive behaviour before it causes an avoidable injury or property damage.

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Why Choose Clearway for Student Accommodation Security?

Clearway is a long-established independent security company, delivering next-gen security systems for a wide range of environments and settings. We work closely with clients to identify the best combinations of advanced AI analytics, permanent and hardwired alarms and cameras, and 24/7 monitoring to keep their premises, tenants, and assets safe.

We offer a full suite of security services, spanning physical assets and around-the-clock responses, integrations with legacy alarms and surveillance solutions, and bespoke programming and remote control access to ensure student accommodation landlords and campuses are carefully supervised and safeguarded at all times of day or night.

Contact our security experts now to discuss your security requirements and get a quote from us.

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Frequently asked questions

Absolutely – while we consult with university accommodation teams and those with on-site halls and dorms, it remains imperative that private landlords also protect the well-being and safety of student tenants, whether residing in shared housing, multi-storey rental properties or other forms of accommodation.

The overriding obligation for proper security lies with the landlord—whether a private owner, commercial rental provider, university, or college. However, security can also be essential during holidays and vacant periods, defending buildings from thefts, break-ins, and criminal activity that can result in steep repair costs, higher insurance premiums, and reputational damage.

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