Posts Tagged ‘ARK Systems’

• HD Surveillance Performance Improves as Demand Rises

  • July 1st, 2011
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  As demand continues to increase for High-definition video surveillance, the security field also continues to improve upon HD performance, specifically in regards low-light operation and bandwidth consumption. This article from SecuritySales.com explains. One of these technologies that has seen drastic… Read More

• Putting Wireless to Work for You

  • June 23rd, 2011
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  • Tags: Alternative Path, ARK Systems, automatically reconfigure, Budget, Business security, camera, card access, CCTV, Commercial security technology, Cost-effective, Emergency, emergency response, HD, Head-end, high definition, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Advisory System, Homeland Security Presidential Directive, infrared cameras, Internet Protocol, IP, Maryland, Putting Wireless to Work for You, Residential technology, secure facilities, secure IDs, security, security cameras, security personnel, security systems, Security Technology, Self-heal, Self-Healing, Signal Verification, Technology, Upgrade, Upgradeable, Upgrading, Wireless, Wireless business security, Wireless Security Camera, Wireless Security System, Wireless Technology

  In today’s economy, one thing is for certain; budgets are as tight as they have been in recent memory. But a small budget does not excuse the use of poor security technology. Because of this, wireless intrusion technology has become… Read More

• IP Video Builds on What you Know

  • June 16th, 2011
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  • Tags: Analog, Analog/Digital Hybrid, ARK Systems, Bandwidth, camera, Cat-5e Infrastructure, CCD, CCTV, charge coupled devices, coax cable network, Coaxial Cable, Computer, De-interlaced, Department of Homeland Security, Digital Camera, Digital format, digital video, DVR, DVR Storage, Emergency, HD, high definition, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Advisory System, Image Degradation, infrared cameras, Interlaced, Internet Protocol, IP, IP camera, IP Integration, IP system, IP Video, IP Video Builds on What you Know, LAN, Maryland, Picture quality, Pixels, power-video-data, Progressive Scan, secure facilities, secure IDs, security, security cameras, Security Industry, Security Manager, security personnel, security systems, Surveillance, Surveillance Camera, Tansmission Medium, Technology, unshielded twisted pair (, UTP Cable, UTP Cabling, Video Streams

  Despite all the advantages that IP video lends to the security field, less than 15 percent of current video surveillance systems utilize this technology. Security managers are often leery to switch from a system, analog, that they are very comfortable… Read More

• Is Your Campus Ready for IP Video?

  • June 9th, 2011
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  • Tags: access, access control, ARK Systems, biometric, biometric access, biometric ID, biometric identification, biometrics, Budget, camera, camera manufacturers, camera types, card access, CCTV, coaxial infrastructure, cost to maintain, Department of Homeland Security, economic, Emergency, emergency response, Expanding business, Expanding or contracting, fingerprint scans, HD, HDcctv, high definition, high quality video data, high threat risk, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Advisory System, Homeland Security Presidential Directive, How to, HSPD 12, HSPD 3, infrared cameras, Internet Protocol, Internet Protocol Video, IP, IP Video, iris scans, Is Your Campus Ready for IP Video?, Lease or own, lens, Lighting, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Terrorism Advisory System, Ongoing costs, retinal scans, secure facilities, secure IDs, security, security cameras, security personnel, security systems, Size of building, smart business choice, smart card, smart cards, Stay or leave, surveillance technology, Technology, telephone access, Threat Advisory System, Threat Conditions, threat level, video equipment, video quality, What is

  Over the past eight years, surveillance technology options have gone from a few simple choices between camera manufacturers, camera types, lens and how many tapes were needed to more complex issues such as choosing between IP Video and HDcctv. And… Read More

• Building an ideal communication network

  • June 3rd, 2011
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  • Tags: 9/11, access, access control, ARK Systems, Available Technologies, biometric, biometric access, biometric ID, biometric identification, biometrics, Budget, Budget concerns, Budget Limitations, Building an ideal communication network, camera, card access, CCTV, communication device, communication devices, communication goals, communication network, data interface capability, Department of Homeland Security, Emergency, emergency response, federal security standards?, fingerprint scans, HD, high definition, high threat risk, high-speed backbone, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Advisory System, Homeland Security Presidential Directive, HSPD 12, HSPD 3, Identify Goals, Identify Limitations, Identify needs, infrared cameras, Internet Protocol, IP, IP addressability, iris scans, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Terrorism Advisory System, Research, retinal scans, secure facilities, secure IDs, security, security cameras, security personnel, security systems, smart card, smart cards, System deployment, System Design, System support, Technology, telephone access, Threat Advisory System, Threat Conditions, threat level

  If you are under the assumption that you can accomplish your communication goals and the ideal communication network with one product, you have been misled. In order to build a network that meets both your current and long term goals,… Read More

• Curbing False Alarms

  • May 27th, 2011
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  • Tags: ARK Systems, central monitoring station, CMS, Convergence, Convergence in fire alarm technology, Cost of POTS, Curbing False Alarms, dispatching police officers to the scene, Emergency, emergency response, enhanced verification, equipment malfunctions, False Alarms, False Alram, falsely announced break-ins, Fire Alarm, Fire Alarm technology, Greater coordination required, Internet Protocol, IP, IP communicators, IP fire alarm communicators, IT infrastructure, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Fire Protection Association's National Fire Alarm Code, NFPA 72, plain old telephone system, Potential savings, POTS, Power backup for IT components, primary means of communicating, primary means of communication, receiving station, Reduce operating costs, Remote diagnostics, Save money, Savings, secondary means of communication, secure facilities, security, security personnel, security systems, Service Calls, Technology, Understand IT standards and practices

  False alarms may not seem like a big deal. After all, a false alarm is better than an actual break in, right? Well yes and no. This article from SecuritySales.com explains just how disruptive false alarms can be. Of course… Read More

• Convergence in fire alarm technology

  • May 18th, 2011
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  • Tags: ARK Systems, Convergence, Convergence in fire alarm technology, Cost of POTS, Emergency, emergency response, Fire Alarm, Fire Alarm technology, Greater coordination required, Internet Protocol, IP, IP communicators, IP fire alarm communicators, IT infrastructure, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Fire Protection Association's National Fire Alarm Code, NFPA 72, plain old telephone system, Potential savings, POTS, Power backup for IT components, primary means of communicating, primary means of communication, receiving station, Reduce operating costs, Remote diagnostics, Save money, Savings, secondary means of communication, secure facilities, security, security personnel, security systems, Service Calls, Technology, Understand IT standards and practices

  As the security industry quickly adopted the use of IT infrastructure and systems into its physical security, the fire alarm industry was much slower to grab on to the new concept of “convergence.” Code changes to the 2007 National Fire… Read More

• FBI Launches Its Next Generation Identification (NGI) System

  • May 13th, 2011
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  • Tags: ARK Systems, Color Code System, Color Coded System, Core processing, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fingerprint identification, fingerprint scans, Lockheed Martin, Maryland, MBSS, Morpho Biometric Search Services, MorphoTrak, Next Generation Identification, NGI, Replaces Color Coded System, security, Security advancements, security field, Security Maryland, Secutiry Measures, Technology, Terrorism, Terrorism security measures, Terrorist, Video security, Video surveillance, What's new in Security

  The future is now according to this article from the Homeland Security Newswire. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently launched its innovative Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, which will gradually phase out the old Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System… Read More

• New Terror Alert System

  • May 5th, 2011
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  • Tags: alert directly to law enforcement, Alerts, ARK Systems, credible, credible terrorism threat against the United States, Department of Homeland Security, elevated threat, Homeland Security, imminent threat, impending terrorist threat, intelligence community, major change, Maryland, National Security, National Terrorism Advisory System, National Terrorism Alert System, New Terror Alert System, NTAS, potential terrorist threats, specific, Terror alert, Terror Color, terror warnings, utilize social media sites

  Recently, on April 26, a new terrorist alert system – the National Terrorism Alert System (NTAS) – went into effect. The NTAS replaced the old color-coded alert system that had been in place since 2002. The NTAS will include “imminent… Read More

• IP Video and Wireless Technologies

  • April 29th, 2011
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  • Tags: analog video equipment, Architecture, ARK Systems, Bandwidth, Bandwidth Management, Benefits, compressed and streamed, Compression, digital video, Dual Streaming, effectiveness, Expansion and migration, Heritage protection, Internet Protocol, IP Video and Wireless Technologies, Less disruptio, Lower transmission costs, Maryland, Mobile applications, Mobile Wireless Broadband, Motion Detection Analytics, Multicasting, No cable, Remote monitoring, Satellite, surveillance system’s performance, Video surveillance, WiMAX, Wireless Broadband Networks

  There are several inherent aspects of Internet Protocol (IP) Video surveillance systems that traditional analog video equipment simply cannot compete with. The greatest of these advantages is probably the fact that digital video can be compressed and streamed across a… Read More