Audio and Video Solution Deters Crime at Subaru Dealer
Orangeburg, N.Y. car dealership Bill Kolb Jr. Subaru is the largest Subaru dealership on the East Coast. At any given time, the dealership has 400 to 500 cars on its lot. Over the last 16 years, Bill Kolb Jr. Subaru has experienced exponential growth. Business has gone from selling two cars per month to more than 250. There was just one challenge that plagued their bottom line: auto theft. “From 2010-2011, I personally saw three or four cars being stolen off the lot,” said James McVoy, IT manager at Bill Kolb Jr. Subaru. The dealership did have an analog video surveillance system inside their facility. However, the system was expensive and the images that the cameras captured were of low quality. “I would give the video footage to the police and they wouldn’t be able to use it to help them identify suspects,” McVoy explained.
The Bill Kolb Jr. Subaru team decided they needed an improved, cost-effective security system. McVoy did a lot of research on the best security integrator companies and eventually found Alex Torres, president and owner of S.O.G. Security Inc., Valley Cottage, N.Y. Torres has been in the security and law enforcement industry for more than 40 years and has deep expertise in deploying video, alarm and intercom security systems in the commercial and residential industries.