Exterior Security Measures for Your Business

As a complete security integrator, we’ve worked with over a thousand businesses to design and implement security plans that fit their needs. Creating business security comes with some challenges. Unlike homes, businesses often sit vacant for the majority of the day and sometimes on weekends as well. Additionally, these properties provide numerous entry points and security “weak spots.” Furthermore, commercial properties often have plenty of areas for thieves to approach a business discreetly and plan their next moves. For these reasons, we place securing the perimeter of a business on the same level of importance as securing the interior. In this post, we’ll detail some important exterior security measures for your business!

First, we’ll review a couple alarm-based security ideas. Namely, we’ll discuss the use of long-range wireless security contacts, as well as exterior alarm notification devices. Both of these suggestions can go a long way towards securing your perimeter. From there, we’ll move on to a look at a couple surveillance-centered solutions. Specifically, we’ll look at some unique specialty cameras that we can use to watch your property. Then, we’ll also check out some powerful Artificial Intelligence-related features. Now, let’s get started with a look at some exterior security measures for your business that work with your security system.

Alarm-Based Exterior Security Measures for Your Business

When it comes to securing your business, very few measures provide as much value as a monitored security system. Alarms create multiple forms of security after detecting a threat. Upon activation, a security system’s blaring siren response warns anyone in and — hopefully — around the building to a potential security threat. Additionally, this racket often scares off intruders. Moreover, monitored alarms also prompt a response from our central station. In the case of an actual emergency, this in turn creates a dispatch by the proper authorities. Finally, the mere presence of an alarm often persuades potential thieves to pick another target. Most people associate alarms with interior security for their property. However, in this section, we’ll show you why alarms represent on of our top exterior security measures for your business. Let’s begin with a look at adding long-range wireless alarm sensors to your property.

Long-Range Wireless Contacts

When we install any security system, a majority if not all of the contacts we install use wireless technology. Decades ago, we ran wires from a central control panel to each and every alarm sensor. However, wireless technology has made this need a thing of the past. Instead, we now install sensors that speak to the alarm panel using radio frequency (or “RF”) technology.

While useful, in the past these sensors had some limitations. For starters, older wireless sensors utilized “AAA” batteries for power. These days, we use lithium batteries that often last upwards of 5 years to minimize how often you have to swap them! Additionally, older wireless alarm sensors have a somewhat limited range. This would make it difficult to install exterior sensors, as range limitations could create an issue. However, we’ve seen this problem addressed as well. Today’s wireless security devices have superior range, allowing us to secure almost any location without any issues. Specifically, our preferred “Power G” sensors created by DSC have the longest range of any sensors on the market!

With this new technology comes added security potential. In fact, we can now add weatherproof sensors to outdoor locations to help secure your perimeter. Wireless door sensors make a great way to secure fences, exterior shed or garage doors, and gates. We’ve surprised many customers with the opportunity to add alarm equipment outside of their business. Let’s move on and take a look at one more way that we secure the outside of our customer’s properties.

Exterior Alarm Notification Devices

As we mentioned, an alarm activation trips notification devices on your security system. At the very least, these devices include enough sirens to provide an audible alert throughout an entire business. As part of the alarm installation, we can also add exterior, weatherproof sirens for an even greater effect. This allows neighboring businesses and passersby to hear the commotion as well. Of course, this in turn increases the chance of the situation receiving attention, increasing the chance of the burglar’s fleeing upon hearing the commotion caused by their actions.

Moreover, we also have the ability to add an external visual component to your alarm’s response to an emergency. This generally takes the form of strobe lights that flash during an alarm event. Like an outdoor siren, these strobes can attract additional attention from the general public. Furthermore, they also serve the double purpose of attracting any authorities responding to the alarm. This proves especially useful in strip malls and other areas that host multiple businesses. Now, let’s look at some surveillance-related exterior security measures for your business.

Utilizing Advanced Surveillance Measures

Over the last couple decades, the popularity of installing surveillance cameras in businesses has skyrocketed, and for good reason. Cameras provide you with “eyes” on your property at all times. You can view your cameras live at any time by connecting your recorder to your network and utilizing an app on your smartphone. Moreover, you can also search for motion-activated clips to review any suspicious activity that may take place around your business. To add even more incentive to install this security, the features that we can offer our surveillance customers have grown tremendously in recent years! In this section, we’ll detail a couple of these technological improvements. Let’s start with a review of some unique types of cameras we can install to help secure your property’s perimeter.

Specialty Cameras

When we design surveillance systems for customers, we employ a wide range of products to provide the highest level of security possible. We often install extremely high-resolution cameras with motorized zooming capability to capture the furthest areas of your property. Additionally, we often install banks of high-powered Infrared (or “IR”) lights near these cameras to help them achieve high performance even in pitch black conditions.

Furthermore, we often install cameras specifically designed to read license plates. These license-plate-recognition (or “LPR”) cameras have extremely high definition to ensure they can provide you the license plates of cars as they enter your property. Additionally, they also have technology that allows them to capture a license plate number without getting the picture getting “washed out” by the reflectivity of license plates in difficult lighting conditions.

Moreover, we can even install a single camera with multiple lenses to provide an efficient installation and exceptional coverage. For example, we can install a 3-lens, 270-degree view camera on a corner of your building. This allows you to see the entire surrounding area with just one camera that requires only one wire run. Some newer cameras also come with a host of features that take advantage of A.I. technology to create a truly unique security experience, which we’ll detail now.

The A.I. Advantage

Artificial intelligence (or “A.I.”) technology has made its way into a variety of technological products over the last several years. In this case, surveillance cameras prove no exception! Cameras equipped with A.I. technology present many exciting features, allowing you to track access to your business with more options than ever. For example, these cameras allow you to search for video based on specific features. You may want to search for every instance of a red car driving into your lot. Or, you might want to see if you can find video of an individual wearing a blue hat. Now you can search for these specific instances to streamline your security experience. Furthermore, advanced A.I.-enabled cameras can even recognize a face and show you each time a specific person has entered your property! This technology represents one of our most effective exterior security measures for your business.

Putting it All Together