Alarm, Access & Video

We install and service commercial physical security systems across North Carolina: intrusion detection, card and mobile-credential access control, electric door hardware, video intercom, video surveillance, and vehicular gate operators. We integrate the pieces so a building’s security behaves as one system rather than a pile of independent panels that happen to share an address.

Licensed by the NC Alarm Systems Licensing Board under 151782-CSA. Every install includes proper authority-having-jurisdiction submittals, real central-station monitoring relationships, and documentation your insurance carrier will accept.

Platforms and hardware we work with

Access control platforms. LenelS2, Verkada, Openpath (Avigilon Alta), Genea, and Kastle. Cloud-managed or on-prem depending on your requirements. Card, fob, mobile credential, and biometric readers.

Door hardware. Von Duprin, Sargent, ASSA ABLOY, and HES electric strikes, magnetic locks, exit devices, and request-to-exit sensors, matched to the door type, occupancy classification, and life-safety code requirements.

Video intercom. Aiphone, 2N, and ButterflyMX for multi-tenant entry, video door stations, and cloud-connected intercoms suitable for commercial and property management.

Vehicular gate operators. LiftMaster, HySecurity, DoorKing, and FAAC swing, slide, and barrier arm operators for commercial and multi-family properties. UL 325 compliant installs with proper entrapment protection and safety loop integration.

Video surveillance. Axis, Hikvision, and Verkada IP cameras with NVR or cloud VMS. Camera placement scoped to actual coverage requirements (perimeter, entry, dwell zones, loading dock, parking), proper bandwidth and storage sizing, and integration with access events so that a card denial or door-forced-open produces a recorded clip.

Central station monitoring. UL-listed monitoring center relationships for burglar, fire, and duress signals.

Life safety governs the lock

The most important constraint in access control is one that rarely comes up in the sales conversation: egress. Everything else is negotiable, and this is not. People must be able to get out of a building without special knowledge, tools, or a working credential, and the door hardware, the fire alarm interface, and the power supply design all have to hold that true even when the system is dead.

That constraint decides real choices. Whether a maglock is appropriate at all. Whether a door needs an electric strike instead. How request-to-exit is implemented, whether the lock fails secure or fails safe, and what happens on a fire alarm or a power loss. Doors get specified backwards more often than you would expect, usually by someone optimizing for the security requirement in isolation and treating egress as a detail to sort out at inspection. It is not a detail, and it is the thing we will push back on.

Integration is the actual product

Any competent installer can hang a reader. The value is in the interfaces: access control tied to intrusion so that a valid card disarms the area instead of tripping it, access events tied to video so that an alarm gives you a clip rather than a timestamp to go hunting for, gate operators tied to the credential system so property managers administer vehicles and people in one place, and the whole thing tied to fire alarm for release.

Those boundaries are where multi-vendor projects fail, because each contractor’s scope ends at their own panel and the interlock belongs to nobody. Since we also hold the fire alarm and low voltage license, we can own that boundary end to end.

Retrofits and existing systems

Much of this work is not greenfield. Panel and NVR replacements, credential migrations, and taking over systems installed by someone who is no longer around. Two things reliably complicate it: the existing wiring is rarely what the drawings say, and the previous integrator often holds the programming, the admin credentials, or both.

We will work with what is there where it is worth keeping. Existing readers, existing cable, and existing door hardware frequently have years of life left, and replacing a working system wholesale is a good way to bill a lot for little gain. When something genuinely does need to be replaced, we will explain what fails if it is not.

Common projects

New commercial construction physical-security buildouts, tenant fit-out card and camera systems, panel and NVR replacements, gate operator installation and repair, video intercom for multi-tenant buildings, camera network migrations, and integrations tying alarm, access, and video into single dashboards for property managers. The cabling underneath all of it is our low voltage work, and the network it rides on is where cybersecurity stops being a separate topic, because cameras and door controllers are routinely the least patched devices in a building.