COMMERCIAL SECURITY SYSTEMS

 

A professionally designed and installed security system from City Alarm provides business owners with a peace of mind that is invaluable. Whether you are looking for a system to protect your employees while at work or a system to protect your property and contents of your business, City Alarm's full service Commercial Security Division will work to custom design a program to safeguard your commercial property. We have designed systems for a variety of unique situations, including: boats, airplane hangars, historical buildings, monuments, hospitals, malls, schools, municipal buildings, banks and tourist attractions.

City Alarm's customized designs offer many components that can add to a monitored system, including:

Intrusion Detection Devices, Temperature & Water Monitors, Employee & Property Protection Devices

Passive Infra-Red Motion Sensors: The PIR motion sensor utilizes infra-red light to create zones that can detect not only motion, but heat as well. The PIR has become an industry staple in intrusion and temperature detection devices

Electronic Glass Break Detectors: Electronic sensors provide business owners with the benefit of having to utilize only one sensor to monitor several windows. The electronic glass break sensor recognizes the sounds of breaking glass and triggers the alarm.

Contact Switches: Contact switches are a common way to protect doors and windows. The switches come in a variety of sizes and colors and can be easily mounted to your specifications.

Closed Circuit Television: CCTV cameras provide the ultimate in property protection. Intercity can design and install a system for any need.

CCTV is widely recognised as an effective way of deterring crime and improving detection rates. Advances in technology mean that the latest camera systems, which provide clear images in colour, are available at an affordable cost.
CCTV can be used to protect valuable machinery, school or government buildings, retail stores and distribution centres.

In many cases a well designed CCTV system can do the work of a large guarding force, leaving people free to deal with situations that arise in a more efficient and cost-effective way. City Alarm will design, install and maintain a system that is tailored to the specific requirements of each client.

City Alarm has established an enviable reputation in the rapidly expanding and highly technical area of remote monitoring. We can provide complete site management systems, including control of personnel and vehicles both to and from the site.

Remote Monitoring
A totally effective Closed Circuit Television System is one that is monitored continuously, sending pictures from your premises to our Alarm Response Centre, improving the level and quality of your security and often eliminating the need for expensive manned guarding.

A remotely monitored system comes into its own with the ability to protect the exterior of your premises. For example, a remote audio warning from our Alarm Response Centre can deter criminal activity and give the impression that the site is actually manned. Visual verification by one of our personnel will guarantee a police response if needed.

In most cases City Alarm can actually prevent physical damage to a site or property as well as the crime itself. Potential intruders are detected and verbally warned that they are being observed. What's more, their activity is being recorded from the moment they enter the site.

Remote CCTV monitoring has shown itself to be the most economic and effective way of securing your property and premises.

Panic/Emergency Buttons: Panic/Emergency buttons allow employees to easily and discreetly signal a silent alarm alerting all necessary contacts.

Card Access: Doors can be controlled by means of either a digital code pad or a swipe Bankers type credit card, this information can be filtered by computer (which allows for the provision of separate voiding of users cards) or simply used to unlatch doors which can be held in the closed position by electronically controlled locks or magnetic locks.
City Alarm's Commercial Security division has been providing security solutions using electronic access control devices since 1982. From stand-alone single door systems to the more complex PC based multi-door and location building management systems, we can find a solution that fits your needs and budget! We use products from top manufacturers and suppliers known for their reliability and after sale support. We install NON-PROPRIETARY systems, meaning most access control dealers can work on the systems we install. You stay with us because you want to, not because you’re forced to. And all work is performed by our installers, we use no sub-contractors.

Electronic Access Control Systems

For business owners, property managers, plant executives…virtually anyone who is in charge of facility access, the problem of "Who gets a key?" is one that is ongoing. If an employee is terminated, do the locks have to be changed? How can access to critical plant areas be controlled after certain hours? Is there anyway to know who enters and exits a building?

City Alarm offers a variety of solutions today with various forms of access control. Access control systems not only restrict access but can also provide an archival printout of who enters and exits and when. Special programming features on some systems allow managers to precisely determine when areas may be accessed, taking into account weekends, holidays and even time changes.

The term access control covers a broad range of products and applications. Unlike traditional mechanical keying systems, an electronic access control management system allows you to control access through doors by time and date, and even lets you review who went through the door and when. In addition to managing to whom access is granted, most access systems can generate reports regarding system activity.

Systems typically include an electronic locking mechanism which replaces the existing door strike. Electronic controllers are then installed to communicate with specified doors and respond to signals received from special "readers". Persons wishing to gain entry to restricted areas are required to present a card or and electronic key to the reader. Some readers will even accept biometric data such as a fingerprint. First, the reader scans the card or electric key. The information is then passed to a computer which records the identification of the user and based on the parameters established for the user, determines whether or not to allow entry. If entry is permitted, the controller allows current to flow to the electronic strike and the door is opened.

Today’s access control systems are versatile and flexible and can be designed to benefit businesses of all sizes. If you are considering installing an access control system and want to learn more about it, call us