Access Control & Physical Security

We select credential technology to the environment — smart card, mobile credential, or PIV-interoperable where the site calls for it — then place readers and controllers per opening and design the enrollment workflow around how badges are actually issued and revoked.

Where a platform is already in place, we integrate rather than rip out, and migrations off legacy credential technology are phased so there's no window where a door is left without a working reader.

Electrified door hardware sits where physical security meets life safety, and the highest-risk decision is made opening by opening: whether a lock releases or holds when power drops, and whether that behavior matches the egress path the fire code assigns to that door. We settle it against your life-safety requirements before the hardware is bid, so the schedule that goes out is one an authority having jurisdiction will approve — not one rejected at inspection that sends the openings back for respecification.

Fail-safe and fail-secure behavior, exit hardware and fire-alarm interlocks are designed to code from the start, so the system that passes your internal security review also passes the fire marshal's — with the documentation package the AHJ needs for sign-off.

Each camera is sited to a specific scene — the lens, mounting height and field of view chosen so a face or a plate is resolvable at the distance that matters, not merely present somewhere in frame. Evidentiary quality is the standard the design is held to: low-light behavior, frame rate and retention are set so footage still answers the question when it is pulled weeks later, rather than degrading into a blur no reviewer can use.

The VMS and storage are sized to real retention and bit-rate targets, and every camera, NVR and VMS appliance is screened against the NDAA §889 covered-vendor list before it's quoted.

The point of the system is one event log: a badge-in and a camera alarm that point to the same timestamp and the same door. During scoping we confirm how your platform actually exposes integration — a documented API, ONVIF conformance, or a supported bridge — and design the access and video packages to write into that one timeline, so the badge event and the camera clip land on the same record instead of in two systems someone has to correlate by hand.

For multi-building campuses and regulated sites — hospitals, federal facilities, data centers — we design for phased rollout: one building or wing goes live on the new system while the rest of the campus stays on legacy hardware, with a defined cutover plan rather than a single disruptive campus-wide switch.