Blog articles about loss prevention, safety, and video surveillance

For school teachers and administrators in today's world, student and staff safety is a top priority. However, school safety is limited when you have disparate systems, such as metal detectors, door security, and video surveillance. As a security solutions integrator, ITech Digital understands the importance of security systems integration. This article examines how you can integrate individual system components into one platform, which allows greater insight and enhanced safety measures. 

Video surveillance is only as good as your use of it. Anyone who works in loss prevention manages a small-box retail store or QSR or ensures school safety understands the tedious task of reviewing videos to find an incident. Enter video analytics software. Video analytics makes search more manageable, streamlines processes, and provides data insights that optimize operations. In this post, ITech Digital explores current video analytics technology and how you can use it to support your organization. 

The best security solutions perform well with little or no downtime. Functionally, they deliver fast, accurate results for investigations and provide business insights that maximize operations. In addition, video surveillance solutions and access control help employees and customers to feel safe while potentially diverting would-be criminals. ITech Digital sees technological innovations changing the security solution landscape, which is why we're covering the top four reasons to update outdated commercial security solutions. 

As the Food & Beverage industry continues to reel from COVID-related labor and supply chain shortages, some Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) know they must innovate or fold. At ITech Digital, we've watched some of our QSR clients develop strategies to reduce risk in these areas. At the same time, these same strategies proactively maximize revenue and catalyze operational efficiency. How? Digitalization, which includes video surveillance and data analytics, is one of the main weapons in their arsenal. This article explains what digitalization is and how you can use it to innovate.

Since early 2020, consumers have substantially increased their use of third-party delivery apps, such as Uber Eats and Grubhub, for online food orders. As online orders have increased, chargebacks have skyrocketed as a result. In fact, restaurant owners say chargebacks, which were traditionally at .5-1.0%, now range from 2.5-4.1%. 

We celebrate the leadership that drives our company to foster an environment of success both for our employees and partners alike. Today, we’re talking to Mark Nazarenus, President of ITech Digital, to learn more about his impressive 44-year journey in the security industry. But to understand how he got to where his is now, you would have to understand the contribution of his early days in the industry. 

Restaurants and stores are finally opening again after a difficult 18-months for people and businesses alike. I couldn’t be happier to see the return of some sort of normalcy and hope the trend continues in a positive direction.  While at a conference recently, I got the opportunity to speak with several restaurant owners. And while their outlook is hopeful, many of them are jumping through new hoops because of the pandemic’s lingering effects.  

While most industries were impacted by COVID-19 in the last year, few were hit as hard as the hospitality industry.  The American Rescue Plan Act recognized the need to provide additional assistance to eligible restaurants, bars, and other qualifying businesses by establishing the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RFF).  This program provides funding equal to COVID-19 revenue losses up to $10 million per business with no more than $5 million per location.  The funds do not have to be repaid if they are used for eligible uses no later than March 11, 2023.  This program opened on May 3 and has already provided economic relief to 16,000 applicants. 

Sharing his knowledge of physical security and security technologies is no new feat for Chuck McCormick, the Director of Sales Engineering at ITech Digital. With over 30 years of experience in the industry, and as a board certified Physical Security Professional, Chuck is a fountain of information for organizations seeking to improve their understanding of physical security and security technologies. He plans to do just that at the upcoming Education Sector Conference at Indiana Wesleyan University.