SDM’s Systems Integrator of the Year honoree is just four years old, but in that time has grown its annual revenue remarkably, received SAFETY Act designation, and is about to move into a brand new headquarters building.
The SDM Systems Integrator of the Year award is based on a host of criteria including unmistakable success, a high level of innovation, best practices, growth and the unique ways they’ve approached their business, the industry, and the community around them.
The traditional push-to-speak entry control has been around for years, but with cellular and IP technology becoming so widespread, entry controls are playing an increasingly larger role in a building’s security and connected environment.
Smarter, more efficient technologies are underscoring the importance of components once considered an afterthought in video system design and installation.
Rapid change has been a constant within the industry for the past few years, and change remains a main part of “business as usual” for security professionals and end users alike.
Schaumburg, Ill.-based Convergint Technologies has made several acquisitions in Canada recently, demonstrating its expansion geographically and in its scope of services.
Protecting critical substations is an expensive and difficult proposition given locations and topography, and the answer may lie in a Design Basis Threat approach.
Recent history has given rise to an almost feverish obsession with regard to thinking about “grid security” and large-scale national or regional cascading events.
According to the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada, there were more than 4,000 reported incidents of workplace violence against Canadian nurses between 2008 and 2013, and still, sources in the industry believe that these types of incidents are woefully underreported.