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Why do people break in and steal? It’s an old question, and for centuries, societies seemed to deal more with punishing thieves than preventing them. For instance, during medieval times, thieves could have their hands or ears cut off — if they weren’t hung outright. Today, though, most business managers and property owners simply prefer to avoid theft altogether. But how do you focus on theft prevention?

Recent studies have provided an unsurprising answer: High-tech security systems help. For example, research published by The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology found that roughly two-thirds of burglars would immediately avoid a property due to the presence of an alarm. This perimeter protection guide will provide you with important points regarding the first thing your security system should seek to safeguard — namely your property’s perimeter. Read More about Perimeter Protection: Everything You Need to Know »

During this time AT&I Systems remains open for business during normal business hours, we are available to assist in locking down access controlled areas. Please call (954)-727-1724 or email service@atisecuritysystems.com if we can be of assistance.

As we carefully monitor the global situation, our team has gathered information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). With these guidelines, we’ve educated our employees and made thoughtful adjustments to promote the highest standards of health and safety in our facilities. We’ve asked all employees to review guidelines on practical precautions they should take, such as increased hand washing, practicing social distancing, staying home if they are ill, recognizing symptoms of the virus, and so much more. Keeping our entire team informed on best health practices is of the utmost importance at this time. In order to maintain heightened safety measures, we’ve ramped up cleaning services at our branches and added alcohol-based hand sanitizers for our clients and employees.

Access control systems address one of humanity’s oldest needs: how to keep certain people out of a particular space while allowing others in. Guards, dogs, high walls, fences, tripwires, and simple pin tumbler locks once fulfilled that role. Today, though, businesses and residential areas more commonly turn to access control systems. Read More about How Do Access Cards & Fob Systems Work? »

Few business owners or enterprise managers have a hard time understanding the idea behind access control. At its most basic, access control involves keeping people without the proper credentials out of sensitive areas. Everyone knows that you can’t have an interested interloper entering your property at any time, and access control helps safeguard against that. The real questions start when clients begin to wonder which configuration or system is best. Read More about What is the Best Type of Access Control? »

Privacy matters quite a bit to a large number of people. Some 150 countries had codified a right to privacy in their constitutions. And nowhere has the debate over what constitutes a right to privacy raged as fiercely as in the United States. As government surveillance capabilities have increased, private businesses that want to keep their facilities secure have started asking themselves a question: Is surveillance with security cameras legal? Read More about Are Security Cameras & Surveillance Legal? »

Your property is only as safe as the people who have access to it. That might sound like an utterly obvious truism, but too many businesses and organizations ignore it — to their peril. With more than two-and-a-half decades in the security business, AT&I Systems understands the importance of access control and knows how to implement it in your building or facility. Read More about What is Access Control & Why is it Necessary? »

In an ideal world, entry management would be easy. Tenants would always pick up their phones, on-site security guards would never let their attention drift, and the only visitors attempting to gain access would be utterly upright do-gooders. But we don’t live in an ideal world. Sometimes tenants can’t answer calls. Sometimes security guards let their attention wander. And sometimes the people trying to gain access to a property don’t have your best interest in mind.

That’s why the Ascent M2 exists. In a less-than-ideal world, it safeguards tenants and property managers alike. Read More about Ascent M2: Property-Access Solution for an Imperfect World »

At one point, common wisdom held that having actual on-staff or contracted guards at a property was the best security money could buy. Time and tough experience has proved otherwise in many situations. Sadly, guards’ commitment and personal engagement vary from person to person. What many property managers need is an always-on, high-functioning, multi-platform technological solution. Read More about What Is the Watchman EVO? »

There’s a lot of excitement around artificial intelligence (AI) today — and rightly so. AI is shifting the modern landscape of security and surveillance and dramatically changing the way users interact with their security systems. But with all the talk of this potential, you might be wondering: what problems can AT&I Systems and AI help you solve today? Read More about How Artificial Intelligence Makes Managing Security Easier »