Wesco’s customer-centered approach provides you with a dedicated education team, focused entirely on higher education and K-12 markets to serve your unique needs.
Education
Education facilities are evolving to cater to changes in technology and student behavior by offering new opportunities for improved onsite and virtual learning outcomes. Equally important elements include enhancing campus safety and the optimization of energy efficiency and controlling operational costs. Our expertise and insights will help support you with tailored, tangible solutions that promote more productive operations.
Education Solutions for Your Campus
Wesco provides innovative solutions for anywhere on your campus, including athletic facilities, auditoriums, classrooms, data centers, dining halls, dormitories, libraries, office spaces, outdoor areas and physical plants.
Our customers include K-12 school districts, public colleges and universities, private colleges and universities and higher education medical centers.
Higher Education
By addressing the foundations of campus interoperability, you can gain agility for budgets, scalability for demand and flexibility for technology choices. This approach addresses five key technology areas and integrates innovative solutions to meet your assessment and deployment needs.
Risk Management
Higher education facilities contain complex areas that require special attention and integration into an overall risk management strategy. A 24/7 crime prevention and public safety strategy is crucial to proactively maintain a safe and secure environment.
Space Utilization
There is an increased demand for multipurpose areas that can be configured for different activities and controlled for comfort, safety and efficiency. Flexible facilities enhance the productivity of students as well as faculty and staff.
Network Performance
A high-performance structured cabling system plays an essential role in operating a modern campus environment, including new learning models, wireless connectivity and increased bandwidth requirements.
IoT Enablement
Enabling the Internet of Things on campus allows you to analyze your environment and make real-time adjustments to improve productivity and efficiency.
Student Experience
Adequate bandwidth and wireless coverage is needed to support the new ways people consume information, mobile device dependency and innovative learning environments.
K-12
Keeping students safe and focused are what K-12 school teachers and administrators are expected to provide. Enhanced security in response to increasing health and safety concerns, is a challenge for educators whose primary responsibility is keeping students engaged in the classroom, among a myriad of distractions.
AV Solutions for Higher Ed and K-12
Audio/Video (AV) solutions are a key aspect of a smart, connected campus.
- Amplifiers and DSPs
- Collaboration and Conferencing
- Controllers, Automation and Monitoring
- Displays and Projectors
- Furniture
- Intercoms
- Kiosks
- Mass Notification and Public Address
- Microphones
- Mounts, Carts, Stands and Screens
- Phones and Emergency Communications
- Sound Masking
- Speakers and Horns
- Video Signal Processing Systems
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Cooperative contracts are agreements between the government and businesses, created in order to lower the costs of procuring goods or services that multiple entities commonly need.
Cooperative Contracts
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Locking Solutions Team
Our dedicated locking solutions team, physical security experts and industry-leading supplier partners can introduce you to new solutions and help you assess vulnerabilities. Whether you are rekeying a facility, replacing hardware, improving key control or retrofitting for touchless access, we can make valuable recommendations for creating a safe and healthy learning environment.
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