What to Look For in Video Surveillance
Three quotes for the same building routinely differ by a wide margin, and the difference is almost never the cameras. It is retention, licensing, cable work and what happens after handover. These are the questions that m...
How to Plan a Video Surveillance Installation
A video surveillance installation goes wrong in predictable places, and almost all of them are decided before anyone climbs a ladder. This is the sequence that produces a system people actually use, and the failures that...
How Much Does Video Surveillance Cost?
LABUSA does not publish a price for video surveillance, and any figure you find online is a number for somebody else's building. What is genuinely useful before you get quotes is knowing which decisions move the total, b...
What Is Video Surveillance?
The term covers everything from a single doorbell camera to a campus system with hundreds of streams, which is why quotes for "video surveillance" vary so widely. This page sets out what the words actually mean, so you c...
Guide to Video Surveillance
Most organizations do not buy a video surveillance system once. They buy some cameras, then add more, then inherit a building that already has a recorder nobody has logged into for two years. This guide is written for th...
The Future of Security Technology
Evolution, Innovations, and Industry ImpactSecurity technology has undergone a significant transformation over the last few decades, driven by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and the ...
Scaling a Security Platform Across Sites
A security platform that works at one site and fails at six has not run out of capacity. It has run out of decisions that were only ever made once, informally, by whoever commissioned the first building. Scale exposes th...
Security Governance and Risk Ownership
Most security programs do not fail at the control layer. They fail at the point where nobody can say who owns a decision. The firewall has an owner, the badge system has an owner, and the question of whether the two agre...
What a Security Estate Costs to Run
Security estates are budgeted like a purchase and behave like a subscription. The installation is quoted, approved and delivered, and then the real spending starts, spread across storage, licensing, maintenance visits, f...
Video Surveillance for Hotels and Hospitality
Most hotel camera systems are specified for the wrong building. They are drawn as though the property were a large office with a public entrance, when a hotel is a public building that people sleep in. That one differenc...