Integrated Security Systems Design

Preface

The leap from traditional proprietary alarm/access control system infrastructures and analog intercom and video infrastructures to newer Ethernet based system infrastructures is a difficult one for many security practitioners. Clients, consultants, integrators, technicians and even those in security sales have found the change to be mysterious, daunting and intimidating.

I was an early advocate of Information Technology (IT) based infrastructure because it offered something that older security system infrastructures could not: true enterprise capability. Ethernet infrastructures permit the distribution of a security system across the organization’s facilities all over the world. That just isn’t possible with older infrastructures.