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

  • September 30th, 2011
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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

• 20 Things You Should Know About Networked Video

  • August 25th, 2011
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  • Tags: 20 Things You Should Know About Networked Video, Analytics, ARK Systems, Bandwidth, high-speed video, high-speed video communications, HTTP protocol, integrated security systems, integrators, IP systems, IT security, l.o.s., l.o.s. technology, latency, Network, network design, Networked Video, secondary networks, security, security systems, Storage, Surveillance video, technological breakthroughs, Video, Video analytics, video communications, video management, VSI Summit, Wireless, Wireless applications, Wireless line-of-sight

  What can video now do that it was not able to before? What is the future of video? Those were just a few of the questions addressed at the Video, Security and Integration Summit (VSI Summit) in Atlanta. The Summit,… Read More

• Biometrics

  • August 19th, 2011
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  • Tags: ARK Systems, biometric identification, biometric identification system, biometrics, can credentials, card readers, credential, credentials, flash pass, identification system, Laboratory tests, personal identification, Pilot facilities, pilot program, scan, security, technological, technological hurdles, Transportation Security Administration, Transportation Worker Identification Credential, TSA, TWIC, TWIC program

  The Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) is, after a long and drawn out process, entering a promising new phase. This article from HSToday.us explains. After 11 September 2001, the federal government decided to credential every worker with access to sensitive… Read More

• The great debate: HDcctv versus IP video

  • August 11th, 2011
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  • Tags: access, access control, ARK Systems, CCTV, Emergency, emergency response, HD, high definition, HSPD 3, infrared cameras, Internet Protocol, IP, IP Video, Maryland, secure facilities, security, security cameras, security field, security personnel, security systems, Surveillance, Technology, Threat Advisory System, Threat Conditions, VHS

  As technology continues to expand, your decisions begin to become more and more complicated. What was once as simple as picking a manufacturer and grabbing a box of 24 VHS tapes is now so much more complex.   In the… Read More

• Safety of Whole Body Imaging

  • August 5th, 2011
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  • Tags: adiation-emitting, adiation-emitting machines, ARK Systems, baggage screening systems, baggage-screening machines, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Congressman Ed Markey, dangerous, dangerous amounts of radiation, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Ed Markey, Full-body, full-body X-ray screening machines, Greg Soule, health, health and safety, health hazards, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Imaging, Inspector General Richard Skinner, Joe Pistol, levels of radiation, machines, malfunction, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, public health, public health and safety, radiation, radiation health, radiation health and safety, Safety, Safety of Whole Body Imaging, screening machines, screening systems, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, TSA Administrator Joe Pistol, TSA spokesperson, unsafe levels of radiation, Whole body, Whole Body Imaging, X-ray, X-ray screening machines

  A joint report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in September 2008 found that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) did not take proper care of some baggage-screening… Read More

• Addressing Privacy Concerns

  • July 28th, 2011
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  • Tags: ACLU, Addressing Privacy Concerns, American Civil Liberties Union, ARK Systems, cameras, Campus, Campus Safety, Chicago, Chicago Police, Concerns, Decreasing privacy, increase the quantity of video surveillance cameras, Increased security, Increasing Security, Privacy, Privacy Concerns, privacy concerns surrounding surveillance cameras, Private video Systems, protect privacy, push for privacy, Racially Profiling, Safety, Spying, Surveillance, surveillance cameras, System, Systems, Technologies, Technology, Video, Video surveillance, video surveillance cameras, video Systems, video technology, window blackening

  When does increasing security start to decrease privacy? That is the questions addressed in this article from CampusSafetyMagazine.com. Recently, there has been an uproar from the American Civil Liberties Union about Chicago’s plan to increase the quantity of video surveillance cameras… Read More