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• Guarding the Mainstream

  • November 4th, 2011
  • Posted in surveillance cameras, surveillance monitoring
  • Tags: 500 companies, ark, ARK Systems, assessment, best practice, businesses, catastrophic loss, contractor, crucial security, design, expenditures, Facebook, fatigued, forces, Guarding the Mainstream, human operators, incidents, installation, loitering, loss prevention, mainstream, preventing incidents, protection, reduction, remote operator, security cameras, Security Industry, service, surveillance cameras, surveillance monitoring, testing, theft, trespassing, Twitter, vandalism, video-guarding

  Security cameras have traditionally been used to reconstruct past events, not for preventing incidents from happening. That WAS true…until now. In the past, surveillance monitoring was left to human operators. And let’s face it, even the best human operator is… Read More

• Study: Surveillance Cams Worth the Money, Don’t Always Reduce Urban Crime

  • October 28th, 2011
  • Posted in surveillance cameras
  • Tags: 12 million, 8.1 million, adopt surveillance cameras, ark, ARK Systems, assessment, baltimore, Chicago, citizen's privacy, Cost-effective, crime incidents, crime reduction, crucial security, design, direct correlation, Don't always reduce urban crime, drastic budget cuts, Facebook, fighting crime, govtech.com, installation, maintenance, massive surveillance initiatives, monitoring, police departments, Privacy, security, security initiatives, security investment, service, Study:Surveillance Cams Worth the Money, surveillance cameras, testing, Twitter, urban institute, visibility of surveillance cameras, washington d.c.

   With police departments across the nation experiencing drastic budget cuts, more and more cities are beginning to adopt surveillance cameras as a means to fight crime. But how effective can these security cameras really be at reducing crime? More importantly,… Read More

• Sound Advice: How To Design Campus Loudspeaker Systems

  • October 21st, 2011
  • Posted in sounder systems
  • Tags: alerting, ambient noise, ark, ARK Systems, arksysinc.com, assessment, campus safety magazine, cell phone, college campuses, contractor, design, designing, Equipment, expert, Facebook, five factors, imminenet threat, impact, installation, installing an outdoor loudspeaker system, integration, Internet, landline, loudspeaker system, mass notification puzzle, mass notification system, multilingual, notification system, off-site access, off-site computer, onsite acoustic sound, prerecorded messages, security, service, shape, size, Sound Advice: How To Design Campus Loudspeaker Systems, sound travels, specific location, survey, telephone, testing, Twitter, voice communication, warning, wind conditions

  In order to better campus security, a properly designed mass notification system is essential. And since not everyone may have access to a telephone or the Internet when a warning is given, a specified loudspeaker system is crucial in alerting… Read More

• Universities Team with IT to Increase Safety on Campus

  • October 14th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: access control systems, ark, ARK Systems, arksysinc.com, assessment, Campus Safety, campus security, campuses, cnation, collaborate, Communication, contractor, coordinating strategic initiatives, crucial security, design, emergency management officials, emergency notification systems, emergency responders, emergencymgmt.com, experience, expert across board, Facebook, improve campus security, improvement systems, incident management, installation testing, it employees, it organizations, it personnel, it security physical security, it staff, partnership, physical security, police, rare, regional, regional resilence, response, service, team virginia tech, Technology, Twitter, united states, universities, Universities Team with IT to Increase Safety on Campus, vice president, Video surveillance

  After the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus in 2007, the school’s Office of the Vice President for Information Technology had one question: can IT organizations help campus police increase security? The simple answer is a resounding YES. However, there… Read More

• How the HITECH Act May Affect Your Healthcare Facility

  • October 7th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: access cards, achieve solutions, american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009, approach, ARK Systems, ARRA, assessment, better solutions, building access, business associates, campus safety magazine, care givers, clear, clinical health act, clutter security, complexity, contractor, controlled, convenience, costly, crucial security, cumbersome, data security, data security standards, description, design, economic, electronic records, elevated security risk, evaluating, fragmented, fragmented security system, fully disclose breaches, health information, health information technology, health insurance portability and accountability act, healthcare facilities, healthcare industry, healthcare organizations, high volume, hipaa, HITECH Act, how the hitech act may affect your health care facility, How the HITECH Act May Affect Your Healthcare Facility, implemented, incident, installation, investigate, key cards, large corporations, levied against, memorize, merging, multi-faceted, multi-million dollar fines, network access, non-hipaa covered entities, noncompliance, numerous passwords, one card, optimize the organization's existing infrastructure, options, patient privacy, physical security, prevent future incidents, Privacy, privacy standards, purchased, regulatory requirements, resulting, robust, secure, security, security challenges, security system, security technologies, sensitive electronic information, service providers, set of changes, smart cards, smart choice, sources, staff, staffing, strong authentication token, Technologies, the hitech act, traffic attribute, Twitter, types of information, vendors, workplace id

   Healthcare facilities all across the nation are faced with numerous security challenges. Their enormous staffing and naturally high volume of traffic attribute to their elevated security risk. Because of these reasons, a multi-faceted approach to security in the healthcare industry… Read More

• Tips for Selecting the Right Security Consultant :: ARK Systems

  • September 30th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: 10 tips for selecting right security consultant, Advantages, affiliated, ark, ARK Systems, assessment, assistance, broad, campussafetymagazine.com, capacity, charges, clients, company, comprehensive specifications, construction period, consultant benefit, contractor, Cost-effective, craft, critical subject area, design, determing, disciplines, diverse, expert, Facebook, factor, familiarize, field, fresh pair of eyes, hundreds, impossible, Increased security, individual tasks, installation, intricacies, job, knowledgeable, labor time, lower bids, market, negotiating, one individual, post construction services, potential, potential consultant, product, project, projects, provide, qualified, recommendations, recruit, reputation, require, resolving, right security consultant, Save money, security consultant, security needs, selecting right security consultant, service, single consultant, Solutions, specialized knowledge, specifications, talk directly, team, team member, testing, tips, Tips for Selecting the Right Security Consultant :: ARK Systems, topics, trade, Twitter, unbiased, unique, unreasonable delays, unscrupulous, vendor, vendors

  If you have a need for increased security, but are unsure how to go about the process, you may be in the market for a security consultant. Finding the right consultant, however, is sometimes difficult. That is why it helps… Read More

• The Push for Standards :: ARK Systems

  • September 23rd, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, business strategy, christy haycraft, collaborative, conjunction, consumer, Customer Service, designed, direct competitors, ease-of-use, end-users, Facebook, flurry, guarded, high profile security projects, increase, intellecutal property, intimate details, level of information, national integrator, plaguing, prove, push for security standards, revealing, risk, security, Security Industry, security infrastructure, security standards, solve challenges, strategic information, Systems, the push for standards security systems news, Twitter, utc fire and security, world trade center, wtc project

  With high profile security projects, like the World Trade Center, there has been a call for establishing standards in the security industry. The WTC project brought several manufacturers together to build a security infrastructure with systems that were not originally… Read More

• Wireless Intrusion Systems

  • September 16th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: advances, Alternative, ARK Systems, Benefits, Budget, commercial applications, commercial facilities, commercial security world, Communication, Cost-effective, day-to-day business activites, disruption, eliminate, emerged, end-users, endpoint, environments, expand, expensive hardwired systems, Facebook, False Alarms, five years, flexibility, floor plans, hardwired, Head-end, installation requirements, installed, labor friendly, main security panel, obstacles, old problems, overall acceptane, popular, pose, primetime, protocols, radio interference, reliable, resolved, rise in use, satisfaction, security, security application, security budgets, security community, sentiment, sophisticated, Technology, transmissions, trimmed, Twitter, upgrades, value, widespread, wireless intrusion systems, wireless intrusion technology, wireless systems

  As recently as five years ago, many believed wireless systems were not suited for commercial application, but that sentiment has changed as of late. Because of its labor-friendly installation requirements, wireless intrusion technology has become increasingly popular in the commercial… Read More

• Top 7 Trends in Video Surveillance

  • September 9th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: 2011, advantage, ARK Systems, Bandwidth Consumption, businesses, campussafetymagazin.com, conventional analog, Data Storage, devices, edge, Equipment, Facebook, high definition, homes, Megapixel, megapixel cameras, next big thing, protection, Solutions, surveillance industry, TCP/IP, Technologies, technology trends, top 7, trends, Twitter, Video Management Systems, Video surveillance, VMS

  The Security and surveillance industry is one full of trends with the “next big thing” lurking right under the corner. Technologies are constantly changing, evolving the way we protect our homes and businesses. So what are the current trendy technologies… Read More

• Video Surveillance: What Works

  • September 1st, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, Bandwidth Issues, best surveillance, best surveillance methods, cameras, cheap price, cost is reduced, cost-efficient, Coverage Issues, difficult to hack, eliminate glare, fiscally responsible, Great coverage, handling bandwidth issues, hemispheric camera, high-resolution, high-resolution cameras, highly reliable, improve security, improving your system, Increased security, infrared cameras, infrastructure, insufficient bandwidth, IT, IT department, Lighting and Coverage Issues, new security system, PoE, power of the Ethernet, Privacy Concerns, security, security network, security options, segregate cameras, Solving Bandwidth Issues, Surveillance, surveillance methods, surveillance technology, technology investment, upgrading security systems, Video surveillance, Video surveillance compression, Video Surveillance: What Works, virtual backbones, wide angel view

  The use of video surveillance is quickly growing. The number of cameras in service is constantly on the rise and surveillance technology is continuously being improved upon. But with so many security options on the market, how can one determine… Read More