The Houston area, and Texas in general, have seen tremendous economic growth in the past decade. There is always new construction going on everywhere, and many options for businesses and reorganizations to relocate.

What are the reasons tenants move offices or retail locations? Sometimes it's about the old real estate adage of location, location, location, but often it's about amenities and features of properties. Commercial properties that don't keep up to date with the latest trends and amenities often get left behind. One way to keep your tenants from going elsewhere in River Oaks is with strategic investments in commercial building automation. Keep reading for ways to keep tenants happy – and in your buildings– with these automation technologies.

Video surveillance systems have been around for a long time. When video recording transitioned from analog to digital technology, vast new worlds were opened up in video surveillance. Digital brought the ability to store vast amounts of video efficiently and the ability to index and find specific footage quickly.

Cloud computing has also brought a sea change in information services. Out smartphones depend on cloud-based applications for most of what the apps do.  In video surveillance, the cloud also brought significant advantages. Cloud computing delivers the ability to deal with a huge number of devices and synchronize information across devices and systems efficiently. But in video surveillance, complete reliance on the cloud can have disadvantages in speed and security, depending on the application. One company, OpenEye, has managed to fuse the best of local video surveillance with secure cloud management and features. OpenEye is simply a smarter way to do video surveillance. For many commercial and high-end residential video surveillance applications in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, it offers the perfect balance of ease of use, administration, and performance. Read on to learn more about this innovative video monitoring solution.

Video technology has been around for a long time. In the “analog” days, lots of footage would be captured, but detecting something was mostly a human affair. Digital video brought in many advances, not the least of which was better ways to store vast amounts of video footage and the ability to get to a particular timeframe quickly.

In the past few years, video surveillance has been transformed by artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. Machine learning is just what it sounds like, using sophisticated software algorithms to enable machines to detect patterns and "learn" independently, without specific programming for every occurrence that might be encountered.

Read on to see how artificial intelligence has made video surveillance far more proactive and useful, enabling new levels of security for your Bellaire, TX premises.

As we continue to cope with the health and economic impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Waco and all across Texas,  organizations continue to look for ways to maintain operations and mitigate risk. 

In our continuing blog series, we have discussed various aspects of fever screening systems; technology, implementation issues, misconceptions, and more. ASAP Security Services strongly believes that this technology is up-and-coming as one arrow among others in the quiver to battle COVID-19. In this blog, we will take a closer look at the guidelines for a fever – what temperature constitutes a fever? In some ways, it's more complicated than you might think.

Technology is supposed to make like easier, or so we think. Sometimes, technology gives us more ways to do things but also adds a layer of complexity. If you’ve tried to cancel a subscription to something and searched endlessly on a web site to see where the cancellation instructions are hidden, you can probably relate to what we’re saying. In the not-so-distant old days, a simple phone call to customer service might have sufficed.

When it comes to home automation for your Sugar Land, TX home, we believe the technology should make life simpler, not just give you a different way to do things. In that spirit, keep reading for three ways that a home automation system can make daily life that much easier.

You might be weary of reading about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but until there is a cure or vaccine, it presents massive challenges to our way of life. As governments, businesses, schools, and organizations of all types seek to return to productive and social endeavors, everyone is looking for solutions to return to some semblance of normal.

In recent weeks, we have discussed several technology solutions that hold promise to achieve the goal of getting everyone back to work and living their lives. One of the most significant solutions is fever detector systems. As you contemplate your COVID-19 response plan in San Antonio, you might be wondering if this is a solution that will actually work and is worthy of your constrained budgets. We’ve developed this brief FAQ on fever and temperature screening to help you better understand how it works and how it can be implemented. Keep reading below for more.