At Northeast Security Solutions, we strive to provide the best security available at all times. This approach entails providing a variety of services and types of equipment to meet any property’s security needs. Moreover, it also involves keeping up with industry trends to provide the most effective security available. Like most technology-driven fields, the security industry sees new and improved products enter the field with regularity. When this happens, we work hard to learn and incorporate these advances to secure our own customers. Today, we will relate the latest and greatest security technology offerings!
First, we’ll show you a couple surveillance-related security measures. These will include cameras with advanced viewing features that blow older camera technology out of the water. We’ll also discuss the recent addition of artificial intelligence-related camera features to our security portfolio. From there, we’ll shift our focus to a couple Alarm.com-related security approaches. Specifically, we’ll show you how Alarm.com’s interactive monitoring services can add convenience and security to your security experience. Then, we’ll detail Alarm.com’s access control services. These offerings help you control and track access to commercial properties, including through the use of your cell phone. Now, let’s dive in with an overview of the latest and greatest security technology in the world of video surveillance.
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.
Installing specialty cameras that utilize the latest and greatest security technology can help you solve any crime that occurs on your property.
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 Artificial Intelligence 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. Now, let’s turn our attention to some security measures provided by Alarm.com, one of our preferred security providers.
Advanced Alarm Monitoring for the Cell Phone Generation
If you’ve kept up with our blog at all, you know that monitored alarms represent one of the most effective forms of security available. These systems create both a blaring siren response and a central station response upon activation. Traditional alarm monitoring relies on a hardwired telephone line to create a connection between an alarm and a central station. However, a couple of factors have started to make this form of alarm monitoring feel outdated.
For one, many customers have shed their landlines. These customers generally install cellular dialers to maintain their alarm’s connection to the central station without a traditional phone line in place. Cellular dialers use a cell phone network, rather than a landline, to communicate to the central station. A second factor in installing these dialers lies in their ability to communicate even if burglars cut a property’s phone lines. Many thieves take this precaution, so using a monitoring service that doesn’t get affected by this act adds tremendous security.
In addition, many customers prefer the extra functionality and convenience provided through interactive cellular monitoring. Some cellular dialers, such as ours powered by Alarm.com, offer these services. Interactive monitoring allows users to control their security system remotely. Forget to set the alarm on the way to work? Simply grab your phone and use the Alarm.com app to take care of it! Interactive cell monitoring also generates custom security alerts. These generally include system arming and disarming events, low batteries, or sensor trouble signals. The ability to control and track use of your alarm remotely make interactive monitoring one of our tops tips for making the most of your alarm monitoring. Next up, let’s see another Alarm.com-related security measure that represents the latest and greatest in security technology!
Alarm.com’s access control plat form allows you to control your access doors remotely with the Alarm.com app.
Access Control Systems with Remote Services
Over the past several years, access control systems have gotten increasingly popular. This security measure involves using advanced lock equipment to control access to your property. Access control systems utilize electronic locking hardware to operate specific doors within a business. Rather than using a key at these doors, users approach a keypad or a reader and present either a code or a physical credential. Users who present an approved credential will then be able to open the door after the reader interacts with the door’s electronics to unlock it. Business owners can assign each credential to open only certain doors at specific times, giving them tremendous control over who can open which doors, and when.
Furthermore, using our Alarm.com-based access control equipment allows for even more control over your property, as well as some unique integration possibilities. For example, you can use the Alarm.com app to remotely unlock doors and grant access to visitors. Additionally, you can also integrate security system commands with access control-related actions. For example, you can program your security system to disarm automatically when someone uses their credentials to unlock the door in the morning. These features add tremendous security and convenience and make Alarm.com access control a very effective commercial security measure!
Putting the Latest and Greatest in Security Technology to Work for You
We hope that this post helps you better secure your own home or business using the latest and greatest security technology available. As always, we also encourage you to contact us with any questions this post may raise for you. We will happily answer any and all of your security-related inquiries. Furthermore, we also invite you to take advantage of our free site survey program. We offer complimentary security surveys and equipment quotes to both new and existing customers alike.
Over our 37-plus years in business, we’ve helped over a thousand customers design and implement complete security solutions for their properties. A large part of this work has included upgrading existing equipment to ensure the most effective and user-friendly security available. Together, we can help you create, implement, and maintain a complete security plan to keep you, your property — and everyone one it — as safe and secure as possible!