If your buildings and properties are not employing commercial lighting control systems, you may be missing out on a critical aspect of improving your buildings’ efficiency and environment. Lighting is essential to foster a more productive, comfortable, and safer work environment. But like other building systems that should be efficiently managed, automated lighting control should be a tool you are employing for your Houston, TX locations. Keep reading below for three essential features to look for in evaluating commercial lighting control solutions.

The benefits of surveillance in schools are well-documented: security cameras help reduce crime, prevent bullying and fighting, control building access, and make campuses a safer place for teachers, staff, and students. But that’s not to say there aren’t drawbacks to school surveillance systems. 

Surveillance is a contentious topic — especially in schools, where cameras are trained on children. Part of planning and operating an effective school surveillance system is knowing what issues could arise and effectively communicating how your administration will handle them to parents, teachers, and the community. Below, we’re covering three school surveillance issues that you should be prepared to address when problems occur in your Houston, TX, school.

If your Bellaire, TX, business is considering an access control solution for enhanced security, you have multiple options available. Facial or fingerprint recognition, keypad access, mobile access, keycard access — these are a few of the most popular keyless entry systems businesses deploy to control traffic flow and monitor traffic in and out of their locations.

Commercial key fob door lock systems are among the most common access control solutions used in businesses of all sizes. Why? Primarily, they’re easy to set up, manage, and scale for multiple applications. Keep reading to learn about the pros and cons of a key fob system to determine if it’s the right fit for your business needs.

Teachers and school administrators can’t be everywhere, so security cameras are an excellent tool for keeping extra eyes in schools to prevent intrusion, vandalism, theft, fights, and other incidents. However, there is a delicate balance between providing increased safety and security and making both students and staff feel like Big Brother is watching. When employing commercial outdoor security cameras in a school setting, several questions and best practices can help guide your decisions to enable a safer school campus. Keep reading below for issues to consider and the best practices for outdoor surveillance in your Woodlands, TX school campuses.

Is your Corpus Christi, TX, business or school investing in a new surveillance system or upgrading your existing system with new cameras? If so, image quality should be a significant deciding factor when researching camera types and features. Capturing clear, detailed images is essential if you need to search footage after a security incident to collect evidence. 

Let’s review a few features that have a significant effect on picture quality: 4K commercial security cameras, color night vision, and thermal imaging technology.

A couple of inexorable trends have been pushing technology forward at a rapid pace, and they are going to change our world profoundly. What are they? Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (which are closely related), and cloud computing. You've no doubt heard of these technologies, even if you may not completely understand what they mean. Among many other applications, AI and machine learning are driving the revolution to self-driving vehicles, and cloud computing is a bedrock technology that enables most smartphone applications to work.

These two trends are driving large-scale changes in business security camera systems too. Read on to see how these technology trends can affect how you evaluate business security cameras and surveillance for your Rio Grande Valley, TX organization.