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What is Content Surveillance? When should you use it, and when shouldn’t you use it?

The real power of the business and physical security solutions that we develop lies in how they integrate together. Possibly the best example of this is the content surveillance system available in our AssetTracer smart lockers for asset tracking. It connects physical asset lockers with centralized management software and our other real-time security systems. Whole new workflows are possible when these tools are integrated together.

Real Time Results — A Series of Confidential Case Studies

This case study is part of a new ongoing series that gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most challenging and sensitive business problems Real Time Networks has helped solve. The clients are confidential. The results are real.

Regulations requiring panic alarm buttons for hotel workers first appeared in 2012 in both Washington DC and New York City. Since then similar policies have been adopted by other cities and hotel chains across North America. Seattle passed a similar city-wide law in 2016. Then in the summer of 2018 what might have been the most comprehensive safety ordinance yet for hotel service workers went into effect in Chicago.

It seems like two or three new wireless technologies are announced every year. And most are touted as the perfect tool to run a Real Time Location System (RTLS).

There’s a reason that we call our asset lockers ‘smart lockers’. When people think ‘asset locker’ they often just envision storage space. But they can be much more.

When It Comes to Emergency Mustering, Keep It Simple

Emergencies can’t be predicted, they can only be planned for. But if your plan is so complicated that it’s distracting during evacuations, you might as well have no plan at all. The best plans are both thorough in the range of events they cover and clear to follow.

It may seem obvious put this way, but if physical keys give access to your organization’s spaces, assets, and people, than they should get as much protection as those spaces, assets, and people. There are very real financial and operational risks if you don’t know who is going where with your keys.

Identifying the best security tools that actually align with your hotel’s needs can be challenging. Even just researching new systems can feel like wading through a sea of buzzwords. RFID, analytics, IoT. It’s frustrating trying to figure out what’s actually relevant for your particular facility.

Digital and physical attacks remain on the rise. That makes the authentication methods that your organization uses to secure its assets and facilities more critical than ever.

Historic Buildings, Modern Problems 

Aloft Liverpool located in city center Liverpool, England had a lot going for it. In just five short years it had established itself as a boutique destination hotel in an up and coming corner of the City Center district. Within walking distance of museums, concert halls, Liverpool’s Conference Center, and the scenic River Mersey, Aloft had turned the deteriorating Royal Insurance Building and surrounding area into an attractive mixture of “history and modernity,” as they liked to say.