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• 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

• 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