Sometimes you just know. Whether it’s a gut feeling, or whether there are blatant red flags (something did lead you to click on this page after all…) you’ll know when it’s time to consider a more dependable option for your construction site. Maybe...
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How You’ll Know It’s Time to Secure Your Construction Site With a Remote Guard
What you should know about video monitoring in 2019
While most of North America braved snowstorms and freezing temperatures, security industry leaders gathered for the 2019 Barnes Buchanan Conference in balmy Palm Beach, Florida from February 7 to 9. Radius Security CEO Rob Baxter joined a panel of...
Video Surveillance and Impairment on Job Sites
Construction workers can’t afford to be impaired on the job. With excavators and cranes on the move, not to mention rebar and concrete, smoking a joint or knocking back a few beers can be fatal. But how do you spot an impaired worker before anyone...
Video Alarm Verification Works
Imagine you’re a police dispatcher. You have one unit available. Two calls come in. The first is an automated notification from a security company: alarms at a warehouse indicate someone has broken in. The second is from another security company’s...
2018 Top 10 Radius Redhanded Apprehensions
With 200 or so apprehensions per year, how do we choose our favourites? It’s a tough call. Sometimes, we hold back vivid, exciting footage because a client asks us to. At other times, clear footage and interesting details make the choice easy. Live...
Security on the Move: Video technology in logistics
Santa isn’t the only one loading up packages these days. Goods are being rushed to and from warehouses and logistics centres at a frantic pace all over the world. From your online Christmas shopping to the latest arms shipment, businesses need to...
Life on the Watch: Q & A with a security monitoring station operator
Edward Corbett, a Radius central station supervisor, is in charge of Redhanded operations on the night shift. Since most break-ins happen overnight, he sees a lot of apprehensions. We asked him what a typical shift at a security monitoring station...
Guarding the Pot: Monitored security cameras and marijuana
You may have seen the news footage last week. Boisterous Canadians lined up to be among the first to purchase recreational marijuana legally. Canada is only the second country in the world to legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use...
K9s: A Police Officer’s Best Friend
On Dec 18, 1967, Vancouver police dog Valiant was shot as he pounced on a prison escapee hiding under a bed. Despite his injury, he stood guard until the suspect was taken to the police car. The bullet had punctured his lung, liver, kidney and...