With the frequency of access points increasing across access control networks, end users will be excited to learn that fewer and fewer of those doors are required to be hardwired. This not only allows for a much for customizable network,… Read More
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Enterprise-Class Access Control Solutions
- January 20th, 2012
- Posted in ARK Systems, Wired Networks
- Tags: access control networks, additional advantages, and Smart Card Access Control Networks, ARK is the expert, assessment, audit reports, available networks, building, Building Enterprise-Class Access Control Solutions, centralized management, Changing the configuration of a wired network, constant power source, crucial security, customizable network, data encryption on the card to prevent data tampering, database via online and offline access points, design, end-users, Enterprise-Class Access Control Solutions, Facebook, fire intrusion and CCTV applications, fraction of the installation costs, frequency of access points, global lock down, great news for businesses in today’s tight economy, inconsistent networking option, installation, Leading wireless systems also have built-in redundancy, locks/readers can be easily relocated, managed network access control, mesh network, particular router, real-time monitoring, reduces labor and materials costs, required to be hardwired, same functionality as wired networks, service, simply contact ARK Systems, TCO, Technology, testing, the highest total cost of ownership, to ensure that the wireless network remains operationa, Twitter, typical wireless router, updates and audit logs, very labor intensive and costly project, Virtual Smart Card Networks, Wired, wired and wireless solutions, wired door panel components, Wired Networks, Wireless, Wireless Networks, wireless system design
Video Can Prove Valuable in Fire Applications
- January 13th, 2012
- Posted in ARK Systems, Security Image, Security Trends, surveillance cameras, surveillance monitoring
- Tags: According to National Fire Protection Agency, cameras that are components of video, component settings, crucial security, detection, detectors that use multiple sensing inputs, different types of protected premises fire alarm system, Dispatch operators, exit marking audible notification appliances, Facebook, False Alarms, fire alarm control units, Fire Detection Through Video Imaging, fire prevention, flame detection, heat detector response time, in-building enhancement systems for firefighter radio communications, installing video-based fire detection, large structures, large warehouses, new regulations, New Regulations and Guidelines, nfpa, NFPA 72, NFPA 72 allows video data, Origin and Development of NFPA 7, personnel qualification, separate connections, smoke detection in ducts, smoke detector spacing, software shall be protected from unauthorized changes, standards fire alarm technicians, synchronization of visible notification appliances, tactile notification appliances, The Double Life of Video Surveillance Technology, traditional detection methods, Twitter, unnecessary dispatches across the United States, verification industry, Video and security technologies, Video Can Prove Valuable in Fire Applications, video detection, Video Image Flame Detection (VIFD), video image smoke, Video Image Smoke Detection (VISD), Video image smoke detection systems shall comply with all of the applicable requirements of Chapters 1, video technology, view real-time
Video and security technologies are quickly making a big splash in the fire prevention, detection, and verification industry. This is happening in several ways, which we have outlined below. These include: The Double Life of Video Surveillance Technology: Just a… Read More
Hospital Abduction
- December 30th, 2011
- Posted in ARK Systems, surveillance cameras, surveillance monitoring
- Tags: ark, ARK Systems, assessment, California Department of Public Health, California’s Reaction to the 2009 Kidnapping, Cottage Hospital, crucial security, design, Details of the 2009 Kidnapping, Facebook, facilities, Fine After 2009 Baby Abduction, Hospital Abduction, Hospital Security Initiatives, installation, Janet O’Neill, mandatory badges, noncompliance with licensing requirements, nursing staff, permanent security greeter in the Mother Infant unit, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Slapped with $50, screening and monitoring of visitors, security guards, security improvements, security personnel, security system, serious injury or death to patients, testing, Twitter
A 2009 kidnapping incident at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s Mother Infant Unit now has the facility facing a $50,000 fine following a state oversight agency review of the unfortunate event. Details of the 2009 Kidnapping: Leanna Patricia Arzate took an… Read More
US Park Police Leverage Video Surveillance for Large Scale Events
- December 16th, 2011
- Posted in ARK Systems, business intelligence, surveillance cameras, surveillance monitoring
- Tags: a bold, Agencies, agency, american red cross, ark, ARK Systems, assessment, awareness, biological, broadcasting bandwidth, cameras, cameras together, cellular based systems, chemical, combat video degradation concerns, contractor, crowd control, crucial security, cutting edge video, D block, data casting, David Mulholland, design, detection, existing local networks, expert, Facebook, FBI, implemented, installation, life safety, mesh networks, mitigation, multiple communications, national center for missing and exploited children, new tricks, new video, not exploited, nuclear agents, official government facility, park police, Park police captin David Mulholland, platforms, public safety radio spectrum, radiological, recorded, redistributed, remote viewing, resource protection, restrictions, secret service, security concerns, service, single system, situational, special events, Surveillance, Technology, testing, Twitter, u.s. park police, uniformed policy agency, US Park Police Leverage Video Surveillance for Large Scale Events, utilization of television, video feed, video feeds, video sharing initiative state of the art, video surveillance sharing capabilities, we thought outside the box
Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? The country’s oldest uniformed police agency – the U.S. Park Police – has implemented a bold new video sharing initiative for its large-scale events. This cutting edge video surveillance technology… Read More
What To Do When Severe Storms Strike
- November 22nd, 2011
- Posted in ARK Systems, Early Warning Systems, intelligent technology, Mass Notification Systems
- Tags: address, ARK Systems, assessment, blizzards, certification, communications, community, company, contact, crucial security, damage, data communications, data networks, design, early warning systems, Effective, electronic, email, excellence, expert, Facebook, fire, flooding, goals, high quality, hurricans, ideas, impacts, impending danger, implementation, infrastructure, innovative designs, integrated solutions, irreversible devastation, life, maintenance, mass notification platforms, mass notification systems, message, mitigating damage, newest, options, outdoors, proven technologies, quality, safer, security alarm systems, service, severe weather, sirens, skilled craftsmen, sound, strikes, Systems, technical staff, testing, text messaging, threat, time, tornadoes, tornados, Twitter, utilize, Video, warning, warning message, What To Do When Severe Storms Strike
The threat of severe weather is ever present. Tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards and flooding can all cause irreversible devastation. But what if there was a way to minimize that damage, at least a little. Well, there is. One way to do… Read More
2011 Security Trends
- November 18th, 2011
- Posted in Security Trends
- Tags: 2011, 2011 security trends, 3d, ability, access, accurate, advanced, Advantages, affordable, affordable thermal, airports, algorithms, analog equipment, Analytics, any business, ark, ARK Systems, assessment, attention, Bandwidth, based, businesses, Cable, cabled, changing industry, closed circuit, cloud, coax, commercial thermal surveillance, common, compete, contractor, cost, cost video surveillance system, crucial security, deployed, design, dominate, dominate industry, economic environment, end-users, experience, expert, faceboo, Facebook, fairly expensive, flexibility, gain traction, grow, HD, hd video, hd-sdi, HDcctv, hdcctv compliant, hdcctv sales, high definition, high security, high security buildings, huge benefit, improving performance, IMS Research Predicts, IMS research predicts 2011 security industry trends, industry, infrastructure, installation, key benefit, long term, lying, major construction, Network, new, nuclear power plants, perception, place, plug n play, Price, prisons, Products, professional broadcast market, reduce, redundancy, remains, remember, Remote, retrofit market, rise, saving money, sd, security, Security Industry, security industry trends, Security Trends, sercurity, service, short term, small sampling, standard, starters, surge, Surveillance, surveillance world, Technology, television, testing, thermal camera, thermal cameras, thermal surveillance, traditional, transmission, trenching, trends, trendy innovation, Twitter, unmanageabe, until prices drop, viable replacement, Video, video data, video solutions, Video surveillance, video surveillance as a service, video technology, vsaas, wireles solutions, Wireless, wireless camera, wireless infrastructure, wirless
Do you often feel out of the loop when it comes to technology? Well, you are not alone. That is why we at ARK Systems, Inc. have bundled the latest trends in the security industry into one place. Wireless Infrastructure… Read More
Enhanced Business Intelligence
- November 11th, 2011
- Posted in business intelligence, ehanced business intelligence, intelligent technology
- Tags: 50%, 80%, accomplish, Analyze, analyze flat data, ark, ARK Systems, assessment, better management, billions of dollars, business intelligence, business intelligence systems, cameras track, centralized management system, clear, combing, communicate performance, conclusion, conjunction, contractor, correlate, count cash, criminal activity, crucial security, date, designed, designing effective business intelligence systems, Education, Effective, efficiency, emphasis, Enhanced Business Intelligence, entering, exciting, existing technologies, exiting, expert, Facebook, Government, helps, higher performance, identify, in store technologies, incidents, increasing performance, independently, indexed, installation, integrate, intelligent technologies, internal, knowledge, lack of emphasis, manage, managers, manufacturing systems, measurable potential, metrics, new possibilities, next level, options, Performance, physical, physical world, planning, point of sale systems, pos data, pos systems, possible, process, profitability, provide, purpose built, real time, retail, retail theft, right vision, service, single system, store, Surveillance, surveillance systems, system daily, tally, technological planning, Technologies, Technology, testing, theft prevention, time camera, traffic counters, transaction, transportation, Twitter, unattainable level, utilize, vdms, Video, Video analytics, video and datamanagement systems, virtual manager, virtual worlds, working smarter
Every business – whether it is retail, education, government or transportation – is looking for ways to increase efficiency and profitability. One way to accomplish all of this is to better manage and integrate existing technologies. Billions of dollars are… Read More
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
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