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Minuteman at IACLEA 2025: Protecting What Matters Most on Campus

We’re excited to announce Minuteman’s participation in the upcoming International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) Conference on June 16-19 in Atlanta, GA. With decades of specialized experience protecting educational institutions nationwide, we look forward to connecting with campus law enforcement and public safety professionals and sharing our expertise.

Minuteman at IAHSS 2025: Setting the Standard for Healthcare Security 

We’re excited to announce Minuteman’s participation in the upcoming International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety (IAHSS) Conference on June 2-4 in Scottsdale, AZ. With decades of specialized experience protecting healthcare facilities nationwide, we look forward to connecting with industry professionals and sharing our expertise. 

Welcome Shanix Customers!

As you might know, Shanix was purchased by Minuteman Security & Life Safety in May of 2025.

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 with global rollout support and in the cybersecurity field. We also have a managed services team which can perform easily-outsourced system maintenance and operation.
• Out product offering is now significantly broader, allowing us to solve more security problems and integrate a wider variety of components.

Minuteman got its start in the Boston area, and as longtime neighbors we are very happy about this partnership! Visit our About Us page to learn more about Minuteman.

We will be in regular touch about any meaningful changes about how you work with us, with plenty of advance notice when needed. Contact us if you have any questions.

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

Minuteman Showcases Fire and Safety Innovations at Waste Expo

Minuteman is excited to announce that we will be demonstrating integrated flame detection, fire suppression, and PPE detection systems at Waste Expo 2025 in Las Vegas next week. These innovative solutions are designed to enhance safety and efficiency in Waste Handling operations. 

We’ve leveraged advanced video analytics to accurately detect fires, reduce false alarms, and safeguard workers from environmental hazards and wayward vehicle traffic. Our team will be on hand to demonstrate the systems’ capabilities. 

Minuteman Rolling into ISC West

A lot has happened since the security industry’s biggest conference in April 2024. We’ve made a number of acquisitions, driven by culture fit and our plan to serve customers from Maine to Florida and beyond.

So when we arrive in Las Vegas, we’re ready to share our expanded ability to meet enterprise-scale security program requirements.

Welcome AdaptToSolve Customers!

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

AdaptToSolve was purchased by Minuteman Security & Life Safety in October of 2024. We have retired the AdaptToSolve 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 with global rollout support and in the cybersecurity field.
• 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.

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.

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.