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
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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
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
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
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
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