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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Scope of project: To combine 23 standalone outdated access control systems into a single enterprise system for the university.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.

Welcome S3 Customers!

If you’re reading this, you probably clicked on a link for our old website at s3nc.com.

Strategic Security Solutions was purchased by Minuteman Security & Life Safety in September of 2023. We have retired the S3 brand, and are now operating under the Minuteman banner.

There are some very positive developments for you:

• Our entire team stayed with the company.
• With greater geographic reach, we will be able to service more of your facilities.
• We have a greater technical abilities, particularly in the managed services and cybersecurity fields.
• Out product offering is now significantly broader, allowing us to solve more security problems and integrate a wider variety of components.

Thanks for visiting, and welcome to the Minuteman family of customers!

Centralizing Your Security Systems

It’s common for large companies with multiple facilities in the US (and overseas) to have a fragmented set of security systems at all those sites. You might have several kinds of video surveillance solutions running at the same time, and access control systems that don’t talk to each other or your HR database.

How Managed Services Improve Your Security System’s Uptime

This is part of our series on how a managed services team helps your system deliver the required level of corporate safety and security.

(If you’re new to this series, a third-party “managed services team” is a remote set of security experts who assume responsibility for your security system’s day-to-day operation. Here’s our team.)

Today, we’ll focus on how they help deliver a high level of system uptime.

A Few Thoughts on Employee Compensation

Our small teams approach works because Minuteman employees tend to stay with us for a long time.

Why?

Why We Decided on the Small Teams Approach

Here’s the sequence of people you might meet when you hire a typical security technology integrator.