Posts Tagged ‘security’

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 20 Things You Should Know About Networked Video

  • August 25th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • 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
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • 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
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • 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

• Mass Notification Know How

  • July 22nd, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: Advancements, Applications, ARK Systems, audible notification, capability, commercial facilities, Communication, ECS, Effective, effectiveness, Emergency, emergency communications systems, emergency messages, emergency situations, Fire Alarm, fire alarm systems, Immediate, live-voice emergency messages, Mass Notification, mass notification systems, MNS, Notifications, Notify, Real-tine information, security, security field, Technology, Threats, UFC, Unified Facilities Criteria, visual notification, ways to improve communication

  The security field is always looking for ways to improve communication, especially in terms of mass notification systems (MNS). The Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) defines mass notification as “the capability to provide real-time information to all building occupants or personnel… Read More