>> Get the picture on smart cabling.
Cat 5 cabling for closed-circuit television makes good sense and should be considered as the preferred method for CCTV installations.

>> Using Graphite Dry Lubricant for your strikes and locks.
Electric strikes are being used more than ever in today's installations due to their practical and effective method of locking doors and gates. Having been installed over a period of time, one of the most common problems associated with electric strikes is the mechanism jamming... 

>> Protect your CCTV system from lightning and electrical surges.
WARNING - Your CCTV security system is vulnerable!  Whether your equipment is located indoors or outdoors, the continuous operation of your CCTV security system is vulnerable to unpredictable disruption via surges and lightning strikes.  So how do you protect your CCTV system... 

>> Obtain images off the JF series intercom.
The JF2 series Aiphone intercom system comes with built in video memory - that is, every time that the call button is pressed on the door station, the master unit will take a photo every second for 8 seconds.  These images are then stored on the master unit for your viewing... 

>> Minimize the risk of HDD (hard disk drive) failure.
With the days getting warmer, it's time to start thinking about the maintenance programs you have in place for DVRs.  The HDD inside your DVR stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces.  The number one cause of HDD failure is heat...

>> Magnetically induced reverse polarity high voltage.
It sounds highly technical and it can cause you and your customer some grief, but it is simply the voltage generated when you turn off the supply (volts DC) to the magnetic coil of an electric strike or any inductive device...