When IP video and intercom systems stop working

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Denning Electronics ensures that clients have the lowest possible maintenance cost for their security, surveillance, and intercom systems. We are a resource not only for our current lines, but we also help with products we haven’t worked with for a decade or more and some manufacturers we’ve never directly represented.

We currently help integrators and their clients who experience cameras, video clips, and intercoms mysteriously disappearing on their IP systems and recorders.

Vigitron’s unique and economical diagnostic tools are purpose-built for security integrators. They may be used to evaluate and test cabling and networks before they are commissioned, and they track down problems caused by bad network wiring, insufficient PoE, or bandwidth-limited networks. 

Please contact us for a test drive of the NeTester/NetStat and NetObserver or one of Vigitron’s other test products.

SALTO – Smart Access Solutions Indoors and Out

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Are conventional keys and locks safely securing property and people in your facilities?

SALTO battery operated locks and access control solutions provide security reassurance for everyone on site, while protecting assets and equipment.

Physical keys are easily lost or copied and expensive to replace. If it’s easy for bad actors to get in, your people and property are at risk. Smart access is safer, more secure and simpler to manage.

SALTO continues to release impressive technological innovations where connectivity between the door, user and system operations aids the growth of overall safety, security, and access control for any access type. SALTO solutions work with nearly any door, including emergency exits, wooden and metal doors, elevators, parking garages, lockers, and containers – even outdoors. SALTO hardware and technology platform can be added to doors with existing locks without additional modifications or wiring.

Modular design and future-proof engineering accommodate growth or regulatory changes to ensure continued compliance.

SALTO products combine style with reliable security and flexibility. Choose from an extensive range of finishes, door handles and locks options to customize for specific needs.

Integration of legacy credentials and compatibility with other systems through multi-application is possible.

SALTO access control integrates within business technology ecosystems including management and security software (BMS), multi-housing software, hospitality software, and alarm/video security management systems.

Denning Electronics represents SALTO in Illinois and Wisconsin. Please call Steve Vivacue or Ken Wippich to review your access control needs.

National Custom Hollow Metal – Quick Ship

Denning is celebrating a nearly 12 year partnership with National Custom Hollow Metal door company.

National Custom Hollow Metal’s (NCHM) has a four decade long tradition as a family-owned business in Little Rock, AR, with a focus on meeting the needs of the growing custom hollow metal doors and frames market. National Custom Hollow Metal offers an extensive range of custom-crafted cold-rolled, stainless steel and galvanneal metal doors and frames to accommodate your project planning and expedite your building schedule. Whether destined for heavy-duty industrial environments, hospitals and laboratories, restaurants or storefronts, our doors are expertly crafted to precise tolerances and exact specifications out of materials specifically chosen to ensure superior durability, appearance and ease of operation.

National Custom Hollow Metal makes rugged high security metal doors and frames for building entrances. We look forward to helping you with your quick ship needs!

Optical Turnstiles for Safety and Security

Optical turnstiles provide for tenants and visitors:

A safe, smooth, and orderly flow of personnel into and out of the building.

A secured pathway for visitors and exceptions such as disabled or baggage-laden individuals.

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Turnstiles are a force-multiplier for building concierges and security officers. Maybe someone claims they’ve misplaced their security credential, or they say they’re late for a meeting. Maybe there’s an ex-employee trying to use an old credential to get back in, or an ex-spouse or boyfriend trying to ride in on someone’s coattails. The optical turnstile barrier helps attendants address the situation while maintaining building security.

DSI turnstiles and anti-tailgating systems have been used with temperature screening sensors (For COVID-19), PPE (such as facemask and hard hat) detection, electrostatic discharge equipment, and security screening for metal and radioactive material.

Are employees and visitors socially distanced as they use your turnstiles? Where turnstile lanes are closely spaced, DSI’s new sturdy acrylic Separation Shields may be the answer. These stable and rugged barriers are easily installed with turnstiles (regardless of brand), low walls, or countertops.

DSI turnstiles are compatible with most card and biometric access control manufacturers and elevator destination dispatch systems.

DSI has provided gear for food processing facilities, public buildings, banks, data centers, industrial sites, and sports venues where the new norm is to safety-screen all who enter. DSI has been deployed in some of the most secure facilities in the world, and we’re prepared to share our knowledge with you in confidence.

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Vigitron makes networks better

Vigitron solves Ethernet networking challenges for security and communication systems. The big four challenge are:

It’s nearly impossible or simply too expensive to get Ethernet cabling and power to where cameras, intercoms, access control readers, or SIP phones are needed.

Cable distance is too long for Cat 5/6 Ethernet, and there is no secure place for an IDF.

Our outdoor security devices (cameras, intercoms, sensors, lights) aren’t reliably powering-up or they fail when heaters or illuminators turn on.

There’s no convenient way to health monitor all of our security system components. Often the first we hear of a failure is when we most needed the system!

Vigitron has long provided physical tools to test edge devices and monitor networks. 2020 marked the beginning of NetObserver, the first in a family of software tool designed to provide real time network monitoring.

NetObserver is a next generation health monitoring Windows™ based software capable of receiving status messages from up to 240,000 ports using TCP, UCP, Syslog and SNMP communications. NetObserver recognizes network connected devices by means of Onvif, UPnP and also allows for manual entry. 

Why health monitoring? Large and small security systems with IP CCTV cameras, intercoms, and access control devices must be dependable. Unlike IP phones or other common devices powered by PoE, high power and high bandwidth PoE security devices often have different component states. Outdoor day/night cameras and LED lighting have power requirements that vary by day and by season, so a PoE switch with an inadequate power budget is prone to fail. NetObserver’s GUI with email notification traces the problem, making it easier to quickly respond.

A built-in mapping feature accounting for both IP-enabled network and edge devices ensures manageability, while custom messaging pinpoints trouble.

The Application Programming Interface used to manage the database is Microsoft’s SQL Server Compact 4.0, which is automatically included in the NetObserver installer.

In 2020 Vigitron introduced PoE Ethernet over untwisted conductors, and in 2021 – 2022 is introducing more switches and components aimed at the industrial market, hardened smart switches with ring topology ensuring high reliability, and more tools to ensure top performance from your security components and network.

Do you have a project? Whether you’re an end user, integrator, contractor, or security dealer, we’re here to tackle your network issues.

DSI Turnstiles for Throughput – Custom Solutions

DSI turnstiles are synonymous with throughput, style, security, and reliability.

Clients come to us either when they’ve had a security breach, or when long security checkpoint lines are hurting productivity. Which of these apply to you?

Do you have a tailgating problem? Are you working with a tight space? Most barrier optical turnstile projects have a custom element, so this is routine for us. It may make sense to have a conversation. No obligation or cost.

For more information or a site visit, please contact Denning or visit DSI’s web site.

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Southwest Microwave = Outdoor Protection

With over 50 years of experience and 70,000 installations worldwide, Southwest Microwave is the global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance outdoor electronic perimeter security systems meeting the demands of security-sensitive applications and harsh exterior environments.

Southwest Microwave’s field-proven perimeter protection systems and security management tools provide accurate, immediate detection of perimeter disturbances across wide ranging sectors – government, military, utilities, corrections, industrial, transportation and VIP residential – areas that by their intrinsic nature dictate high performance and unyielding reliability.

Product excellence is only one component of the Southwest Microwave customer commitment. A pledge to provide world-class customer care is backed by extensive technical service capabilities, including system planning and design assistance, commissioning services, comprehensive training programs and responsive tech support. By delivering proven technologies and broad-reaching value added services, Southwest Microwave offers a solid foundation for long term perimeter security solutions.

Overly Door – Specialty Doors

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Acoustic. Blast. Pressure. Bullet Resistive. Radiation Shielding. Overly Door Company is a custom specialty door and window manufacturer.  Industry leading architects utilize our products to achieve the exact protection specification their facility requires.  We provide many “out-of-the-box”custom barrier systems.   Specify … Continue reading

Better outdoor intrusion detection: Southwest Microwave

While video systems often seem to be the first choice for outdoor protection, they usually cannot provide the high-level security needed for a critical facility. Weather, lighting, and other factors create camera vulnerabilities, and experienced intruders know how to exploit these to their advantage.

Southwest has reliable perimeter intrusion detection (PIDAS) sensors, all of which perform in the conditions where camera systems sometimes fall short. Southwest sensors detect in rain, snow, fog, and in heavy shadows, and when used with your video system provide a superior layered defense.

Southwest Microwave Background

Southwest Microwave’s analog microwave sensors have been the gold standard for over 50 years. We regularly see sensors installed back in the 1990’s (including some complicated deployments using reflectors) still in operation at some of the most secure facilities in the world.

Southwest’s new digital microwaves improve false and nuisance alarms to rates never thought possible.

Southwest Microwave’s family of intelligent perimeter security solutions also includes the INTREPID™ Micropoint™ Single Platform Detection Systems feature field-proven detection technologies, made even smarter with single-platform networking convenience. While factory training is advisable or may be mandatory depending upon your site, these cable installation and calibration videos provide background information to help your installation go smoothly.

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SECO-LARM

SECO-LARM manufactures innovative security and surveillance equipment for commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities.

With 41 years of R & D experience and over 200 domestic and international patents, SECO-LARM stands out as an innovator. One of the greatest benefits of buying from SECO-LARM is simply the wide breadth of well-designed products.

Distributors and dealers and their clients in nearly 100 countries worldwide know they can count on SECO-LARM access control, physical security, CCTV, A/V, and wireless components and solutions. With such a broad line-up of CCTV cameras, electromagnetic locks, door strikes, card readers, keypads, intercoms, exit devices, RF wireless, and sensors, you’ll rarely need to go elsewhere to complete your projects on-time and under-budget.

Denning is eager to show you SECO-LARM products. Please call or email Steve Vivacue or Ken Wippich to schedule an appointment.