by Mark Pawlowski | Nov 13, 2018 | Security Challenges
Building access control is a crucial component of your security system. How do you know who to let in? Can you keep the right people out? These days, a security guard just inside the door isn’t going to cut it. What if your key employee forgets his ID? What if someone...
by Mark Pawlowski | Nov 6, 2018 | AV Integration, Network Management
When you invite clients into your conference room, you want to create an experience that is memorable, enjoyable, and overall – dazzling. Think of your conference room as a stage and your presentation as the show. You want your audience to be wowed. Unfortunately,...
by Mark Pawlowski | Nov 2, 2018 | Network Management
In the age of YouTube, it’s easy to look at a repair or installation project, watch a five minute YouTube video and say, “Hey, I can do that!” If you can, that’s great. But there’s a reason why most project hacks turn out to be project fails. That video that made it...
by Mark Pawlowski | Oct 19, 2018 | Network Management
According to the Gartner IT glossary, systems integration is the “process of creating a complex information system that may include designing or building a customized architecture or application, integrating it with new or existing hardware, packaged and custom...
by Mark Pawlowski | Oct 10, 2018 | Network Management, Planning For IT
“A cable is a cable is a cable, right? It shouldn’t matter how you install them as long as you have good quality equipment.” This type of thinking will get you in trouble. A great cabling contractor can tell you about all the bad cabling installation jobs he’s had to...
by Mark Pawlowski | Oct 8, 2018 | Camera Systems, Security Challenges
Investing in commercial security cameras for your building can be expensive. It may even be tempting to buy the best security cameras and choose a lower quality commercial security camera installer. But if your security cameras are not installed properly, it won’t...
by Mark Pawlowski | Oct 5, 2018 | Security Challenges
Keyless entry systems aren’t just the future of access control – increasingly, they’re the present, too. By now, you’ve almost definitely experienced keyless entry systems for yourself. There are the keyless entry cars that rely on slick apps or location-based key...
by Mark Pawlowski | Oct 4, 2018 | Security Challenges
Access control systems, as a term and as a concept, have a little bit of a cool factor. There’s an undeniable appeal to scanning into a building using cutting-edge technology, like card-based keyless entry (cool) or biometric recognition (even cooler). It’s satisfying...
by Mark Pawlowski | Sep 24, 2018 | Planning For IT
Ethernet cables may look the same as they did five or ten years ago. But don’t be fooled by the outside. Big changes have come down the line for category cables. No longer do you need just a cat5 installer; cat5e has become the new standard with cat6 poised to make...
by Mark Pawlowski | Sep 14, 2018 | Camera Systems, Security Challenges
There have been plenty of developments in the world of commercial security cameras in 2018. Most recently artificial intelligence has made its way into the security sector. Artificially intelligent security cameras bring facial recognition, behavioral learning, and...
