Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

• Smart Thermal Cameras :: Surveillance Cameras :: Security Cameras

  • May 11th, 2012
  • Posted in ARK Systems, Security Image, surveillance cameras
  • Tags: ARK Systems, Department of Homeland Security, emergency response, Facebook, installation, Maryland, security, security cameras, security systems, smart thermal cameras, surveillance cameras, Technology, Twitter

  he cornerstone of any successful security system is perimeter awareness with high quality surveillance cameras. And while there are more than a few options available on the market today, one has emerged from the crowd: smart thermal cameras with video… Read More

• IDs, Credentials, and Biometrics: The Future of Access Control Systems

  • May 2nd, 2012
  • Posted in ARK Systems, Cybersecurity, intelligent technology, Public Alerts
  • Tags: ARK Systems, crucial security, Facebook, mass notification emergency communication, security, security systems, Surveillance, Technology, Twitter

  IDs, Credentials, and Biometrics: The Future of Access Control Systems Tell me if this sounds familiar… You carry around a magnetic stripe card with two barcodes. You have to remember two completely different PINS. And you have to carry a… Read More

• 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

  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

• 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

• Video Can Prove Valuable in Fire Applications

  • December 2nd, 2011
  • Posted in ARK Systems, surveillance cameras, surveillance monitoring
  • Tags: alarm verification, ark, ARK Systems, arksysinc.com, burglar alarms, burglaries, cameras, conventional ip, corporate campus, design, dispatchers, DVR, efficient, environment, expertise, Facebook, False Alarms, fire, Fire Alarm, fire detection, hard wired, high traffic, hybrid systems, individuals, install, intruder, mircoprocessor, motion, national fire protection agency, new video, nfpa, security, security company, security system, smoke, Surveillance, Technology, Twitter, Video, Video Can Prove Valuable in Fire Applications, video imaging, video surveillance systems

  You have video surveillance, you have a security system, and you have a fire alarm. But currently, they are all working as individuals systems. That doesn’t sound very efficient, does it? Fortunately, the security world agrees and has begun to… 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

• 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

• 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

• 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