As a business owner or security manager, you’re often off-premises or in the field. This doesn’t even cover your hours off, when you should be enjoying some privacy but you’re still effectively on-call should anything happen. This means you need access to CCTV on a smartphone or tablet. This is easy enough for us to […]

Many access points at facilities aren’t directly attended by personnel. There can be many reasons for this, from conserving staff to protecting these personnel from potential dangers. For this, you combine three separate systems a security installation company provides into one: access control, CCTV camera, and intercom.   This doesn’t mean we cram together systems […]

There’s a temptation when you’re investing in advertising technology. Rather than stick with a cohesive set of technologies, you try to branch out and involve every version that’s available. You think this will allow you to present a strategy that follows multiple approaches, but instead it can create more work and quickly become counter-productive. When […]

Digital signage for restaurants is utilized in a number of different ways: for indoor and outdoor advertising, for arranging reservations, and even to keep customers entertained while waiting for their food. You can see how digital signage is implemented across every type of restaurant there is, from franchise fast food to high-end dining. The menu […]

It’s not exactly a comfortable topic right now, but with certain recent events, discussing lockdown procedures and evacuation notifications is important. We’ll say this straight up: we provide mass notification in Chicago. We don’t want to use tragedy to sell anything, so we’ll talk about the importance of mass notification, whether it’s with us or […]

Many assisted living homes in Chicago still operate with traditional nurse call systems. With hard physical locations mounted on walls, this can sometimes put assistance out of the reach of residents. Wireless nurse call for assisted living gives immediate access to residents, who can wear call buttons on lanyards.   Greater Access, Faster Response   […]

Access control comes in a variety of solutions. This is because it’s needed by a variety of different businesses, facilities, warehouses, and institutions. What a medical lab needs is different from what a warehouse needs. What a school needs is different from what a research facility needs. For this reason, access control can be a […]

A wireless nurse call system can be more than a communication system. It’s valuable enough as a system that enables fuller communication so that staff is more flexible and efficient, but you can also use it to improve service and accountability. When a call comes in, the system can record a wealth of information that […]

Digital signage in Chicago doesn’t have to be polite. In fact, sometimes it shouldn’t be. Too often, businesses treat digital signage too much like traditional signage. It advertises a business, highlights the brand, and gives some information or pricing. That’s not anything traditional signage can’t do. Digital signage is appealing because our eyes have been […]