Smart technologies can help buildings cut energy costs, increase their value and help them be better at whatever they are trying to do. By using smart technology to serve the specific objectives of a building; schools can teach better, offices can be more productive, and hospitals can cure more people. If your building is a prison, then smart technology also promises to help you, but in some quite unique ways. Prisons, are mainly about security but unlike most building security, prisons are primarily concerned about keeping people in, rather than keeping them out. This creates a complex and unique smart security challenge for vendors and contractors. To make correctional facilities more secure, from inside and out, the smart technology sector puts forward its full arsenal of security products – from surveillance cameras to signal blockers and even radar. “A smart corrections facility creates a performance infrastructure that embraces emerging technologies to enable a safer environment […]