Commercial Security System Installers

Pricing is based on the number of devices and the services in the quote. It follows a scope review or site assessment, not a web form. If more devices are installed than quoted, the price changes to match, so a thorough survey protects your budget. Work outside normal hours, such as around equipment shutdowns, adds cost. Time-and-material work is billed at our prevailing rates.

We install and integrate card access, video surveillance, intrusion alarms, and fire systems, plus hosted options that reduce the hardware you keep on site. We're an integrator, not a manufacturer, so equipment comes from our technology alliances, including HID, Bosch, LenelS2, Axis, and Motorola Solutions. Where your existing cabling or devices still meet your needs, we reuse them instead of replacing them by default.

A site survey. Walk every door to confirm frames, strikes, and power, and decide fail-safe or fail-secure for each one based on egress and fire code, with your AHJ involved early. Confirm cable paths, IDF space, VLANs, and PoE budget with your IT team. Review submittals too. Rob Jackson's book Mastering Modern Security describes swapping oversized highway-style plate cameras for a fitting model, saving almost $1,200 each.

Yes, most of our installations happen in occupied buildings. The plan covers which doors go offline and when, how long the old and new systems run side by side, and where ceiling work happens during business hours. Standard work runs 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. After-hours or shutdown-window work can be scheduled, but it carries additional charges, so decide early which areas truly need it.

Acceptance testing and training. We test every door, camera view, and alarm point with your team, train the people who will run the system, and you accept the installation before closeout. You should leave with as-built drawings, device lists, and admin credentials, and with a named person on your side who owns the cardholder database. Installation of equipment we sell carries a one-year workmanship warranty, and manufacturer warranties cover the equipment itself.

Yes. Support programs include two preventative maintenance visits per contract year, with database metrics and performance analysis, priority response for remote and onsite support, a documented history from the first sales visit through resolved issues, and pre-recorded training. Also plan for firmware and patching from day one. An unpatched recorder on your network is an IT problem as much as a security one.

Call us or open a remote session through the support portal using the Control Code your technician gives you. Many issues are resolved remotely. If not, we dispatch a technician within a reasonable time during business hours. Common calls are dropping feeds and intermittent readers. If you have our NOC device-health monitoring, we often see the failing device before you report it.

That's how we design it. The platforms we install scale from a single door to large multi-site systems, but expansion depends on choices made now: spare controller capacity, PoE headroom on switches, recorder storage, and a credential format that works at the next building. If you expect to grow, make the first job a reusable standard. Adding capacity during the first install usually costs less than retrofitting it later.