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Minuteman Acquires AdaptToSolve

Andover, Mass. — October 28, 2024: Minuteman Security & Life Safety (“Minuteman”), a leading super-regional provider of integrated security, communication, and life safety systems, today announced that it has acquired security technology integrator AdaptToSolve of LaGrange, GA.

Minuteman Acquires Access Security Corp

Andover, MA – July 25, 2024 – Minuteman Security & Life Safety (“Minuteman”), a premier integrator and service provider of commercial security surveillance, access control, fire systems, and related life-safety technological offerings, has entered into a partnership with Access Security Corp. (“ASC”), a security solutions integrator and service provider in the greater Philadelphia area. 

Minuteman Acquires Secuni

Andover, Mass. — July 22, 2024: Minuteman Security & Life Safety (“Minuteman”), a leading super-regional provider of integrated security, communication, and life safety systems, today announced that it has acquired systems integrator Secuni of Edison, NJ.

Minuteman Ranked 12th in SDM Top Systems Integrators of 2024

Minuteman has once again made a big jump in the rankings, in SDM’s annual survey of the largest security technology integrators.

Minuteman Security & Life Safety Acquires Security Technologies Inc.

Andover, Mass. — June 7, 2024: Minuteman Security Technologies, Inc. (“Minuteman”), a leading provider of enterprise security technology solutions, today announced that it has acquired systems integrator Security Technologies Inc. (“STI”), of Vernon, CT.

A novel solution for interlocking doors

We recently built a new access control solution for a life sciences company’s sterile lab environment, using a particularly elegant technical approach.

This client’s 10-room clean area included multiple interlocking doors with and without card access, and one three-door interlock. In this application we were asked to account for omni-directional and bi-directional traffic for areas of gowning, de-gowning, material handling, waste handling, and pressurized cross-contamination.

AI in Security: Part 1 of 2, the Short-Term View

One year ago, ChatGPT went mainstream and started the AI hype train. Security technology manufacturers jumped aboard, promoting AI-driven improvements in video analytics and security software user interfaces.

So is your job about to get meaningfully easier because of AI?

Not really.

How You Can Respond to the Flipper Zero Threat

A $100 handheld consumer-friendly device named the Flipper Zero got our attention in 2022, when its Kickstarter was a viral success.

Its continued popularity more recently got the attention of the New Jersey government, who correctly called it a potential threat to any company or school with access cards.

Minuteman Awarded SDM Magazine Project of the Year Award

Company: Minuteman Security Technologies (Minuteman Security and Life Safety)
Customer: Boston University
Scope of project: To combine 23 standalone outdated access control systems into a single enterprise system for the university.
Project launch: April 2021
Project completion: November 2023

How We Choose Technology Suppliers

Picking physical security technology suppliers has never been more complex than it is today, and it promises to get only more difficult given the number of new and exciting technologies being developed – and the number of manufacturers and distributors hawking them.