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HIKVISION, DAHUA, AND THE NEW GAME. “A Securities issue, not a Security Issue.” This was a comment I received from a friend regarding the recent HIKVision news reported by news agencies.
Continue reading “HIKVision, Dahua, and The New Game.”Over the course of 2021, we’ll be launching a series of useful trainings for technology relating to our industry and leading products available at Arlenco Distribution. Subscribe (by entering your email to the right) to our mailing list to get notified of new updates. In this video Cameron talks briefly about what’s to come.
Continue reading “The Arm Yourself Training Series, an introduction by Cameron”
At the first of the year we’ll be launching a 4 episode training series: IP Technology, The Basics. It will be the first of many trainings that we’ll deploy this year using the Arm Yourself Podcast.
THIS TRAINING WILL BE FREE TO STREAM/WATCH ON YOUR OWN TIME.
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SimpliSafe, Ring, and all of the DIY systems are severely lacking [to say the least] when it comes to REAL and complete solutions for security, automation, and surveillance. Sure, they integrate relatively seamlessly with the ever growing Amazon-supporting brands, but they fall short in so many ways. That said, the offering can actually do damage to an industry with over a century in history and development.
Continue reading “Arm Yourself Episode 12 – Napco’s answer to Ring and SimpliSafe”Podcast: Play in new window | Download
The two challenges we’re addressing relate to the Fire Alarm industry, and the Commercial Burg industries. In this episode we’ll talk a little about how other manufacturers have struggled getting products to us. We’ll also talk about price increases from some of the more prominent manufacturers in our industry.
Continue reading “Arm Yourself Episode 11 – Pricing and Availability – Commercial Fire and Commercial Security. Napco GEMC and Firewolf”Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Digital Video has completely changed within the last 25 years. In today’s episode Cameron discusses the nature of video surveillance, the primary differences between old video storage solutions, and today’s video storage solutions. HOW, for example, does UNV specify 1000 foot runs between video sources on an IP Video installation?
Continue reading “Arm Yourself – Episode 9 – IP CCTV and How will UNV save me bandwidth?”Podcast: Play in new window | Download
We’ve been away for a while, but trust us, it’ll be worth it! We’ve been busy developing ORBIT v.4. You may have noticed that we added some features to the site, but most of what we’ve been up to lives under the hood.
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In this episode we talk about Arlenco CONNECT and Arlenco ORBIT. We also talk about a brand that we had omitted from the original Arm Yourself brands, PDK or ProDataKey Cloud Access Control Systems.
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In this episode, we summarize all of the brands that are included in the Arm Yourself Showcase, presented by Arlenco Distribution. We take a bird’s-eye-view of the problems confronting the Low Voltage industry including: Fire Alarm, Security Systems, Access Control Systems, CCTV Systems, and Cabling Solutions.
Continue reading “Arm Yourself – Episode 5 – What is the Arm Yourself Showcase? How, specifically can Arlenco help me face today’s industry challenges? Arm Yourself Brand Summary. SOLVED.”Podcast: Play in new window | Download
In this episode, we cover the price increases everybody is confronted with when they call to order “that panel they’ve been installing for years.” Why has the pricing increased so dramatically? Why is it so difficult to get “that panel they’ve been installing for years.”
Continue reading “Arm Yourself – Episode 4 – Pricing increases? Tariffs in today’s world of Fire Alarm (and security) and digital communicator issues. SOLVED”Podcast: Play in new window | Download