Minuteman has a substantial team of degreed engineers, who have been solving a wide variety of design and implementation challenges since 1999.
This team uses a quite intentional design-first and open-architecture approach to providing security systems. Their early involvement in the construction process allows for thoughtful needs assessment, long-term visioning, and ultimately product specification.
Beginning with a site assessment, our engineers and account managers focus on learning about your business and risk environment. They think programmatically about the systems and human processes that ensure successful operation and maintenance. This goes for new installations, or existing system conversions.
During the design consulting phase, we ask a lot of questions:
- Threat/vulnerability assessment
- How do we minimize false alarms in intrusion detection application
- Sensor technologies that are options for the application
- On-premise vs. Cloud platforms
- What quality level surveillance images is acceptable
- What level of reporting do you require
- On-site technology demonstrations
- Review local and state codes
Our thinking goes well beyond hardware! Modern security system design is much more than choosing the right cameras and running conduit in the logical place.
Our team knows how security software packages work together, how to configure network usage for security and reliability, how access control systems can sync with an HR database, and can even write custom middleware to meet a tricky business need.
Proper design ensures standardization across your enterprise and it documents your ideas from the consulting phase so installation teams can make it all come to life. Each of our client teams has a dedicated systems engineer, along with in-house CAD engineers to help with this process.
System design is really about getting the proper bill of materials so that everything will work together. Our system engineers perform heat and power load calculations to ensure optimal performance, as well as, maximizing the life of the equipment. Device matrices, riser diagrams, and device location drawings are completed to better help installation teams understand the project.
In the end, Minuteman engineers create system designs and drawings that serve business needs and are harmonized with the physical space. They also anticipate and specifically plan for the likely evolution of your needs.