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Each year the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) releases a Uniform Crime Report documenting the frequency, instances, and trends of certain types of crime. The crimes focused on in the report range from violent crimes, like murder and rape, to property crimes like burglary and arson. The comprehensive report allows you to browse by location, region, and a specific crime. Although some of the locations of these crimes used remote video monitoring, most did not, making it more difficult for law enforcement to catch the culprits. Many law enforcement agencies are encouraging the latest technologies so they have more information that improves their situational awareness when responding to an incident. 

In 2010, there were a little over 9 million reported property crimes in the entire nation. When compared to the 2009 estimate, this was a 2.7 percent decrease. In comparison to the 2005 statistics, this was a 9.3 percent drop. Although the frequency is consistently dropping, property crime still resulted in an estimated $15.7 billion in damage in 2010. Security cameras are a major reason for the decrease in property damage. However, property crimes still made up 80% of all criminal victimization in the United States in 2010, according to a survey conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

By using remote video monitoring, like Stealth Monitoring, many major property crimes can be avoided. Through the use of this real time proactive technology, a team of professionals will often be live monitoring your business before the criminal activity has occurred, looking for suspicious behavior. When suspicious behavior is captured on video in progress, they will activate speakers, dispatch police, and/or contact the local management for the subject property.

Remote video monitoring is ideal for use in a wide collection of industries, including auto dealers, apartments, scrap metal dealers, manufacturing facilities, and many other types of commercial property. While many companies merely install equipment and walk away from the project, Stealth Monitoring offers turnkey full service solutions that include design, install, service, and live video monitoring.

By using Stealth Monitoring you can rest easy knowing the safety of your employees and business is in the hands of experts with more than 10 years of experience in the remote video monitoring industry. At Stealth Monitoring, we are proud to be innovators, researchers and expert installers of the “best of the breed” security equipment available on the market. But it’s really the customized real time video monitoring services that makes us different.  Call Stealth today at 1-855-783-2584 or visit www.stealthmonitoring.com.

Stealth Monitoring wishes everyone a happy and healthy holiday season. The business community has experienced an increase in property crimes this year with all types of property damage, copper/utility vandalism, commercial/personal property theft, and much more. The holiday season is notorious for major incidents while the office is shut down for multiple days. Stealth Monitoring offers security for commercial properties and customizes a solution based on the needs of the business. Stealth has hundreds of clients and thousands of cameras that are remotely managed from their state of the art Live Video Monitoring Control Center. Stealth proactively watches surveillance cameras 24/7 deterring unwanted activity on a daily basis. Please see the list below for some basic safety tips going into the holiday season so that you can make sure you are doing your best to decrease accidents.

1. Clarify your operational hours and when your place of business should be officially closed. Ensure procedures for any employees accessing the property while it is closed.
2. Check and add exterior lighting. Lighting is a deterrent and criminals tend to go to dark spots or hidden areas. Drive by your property at night for proper lighting evaluation.
3. Keep lights on inside, especially if you have glass storefronts. If someone drives by when seeing suspicious individuals inside a lit business, they may report their suspicions to police.
4. Include exterior signage to warn individuals that you have a security system. Stealth can customize the language or use standard signage to deter criminals.
5. Double check your electronic systems are functioning correctly with updated contact information. Consider updating your systems annually with new passwords that are properly distributed to appropriate personnel.
6. Make sure your water, gas, potentially hazardous materials, and other utilities are properly secured and not leaking or exposed to the winter elements.
7. Be prepared with a point of contact to visit the facility in case of an emergency, the closer he/she lives to the property, the better. Stealth often needs an onsite representative from the company to act as a key holder and work with police during an incident.
8. Have any relevant documentation such as emergency numbers readily available.
9. Check in with neighbors and discuss any nearby vacancies with your property manager or landlord.
10. Call Stealth Monitoring and communicating your concerns and discuss with personnel any historical problems or current needs/expectations for securing your assets and property.

Stealth Monitoring is proud to announce that we will be attending the International Council of Shopping Centers on November 2-4, exhibiting our industry leading video monitoring services that are revolutionizing the security industry. With the rise of unemployment and the poor economy, people are resorting to theft and burglary more commonly. At the conference, we will be displaying our cutting edge technology and sharing stories about how we have saved our clients thousands of dollars by preventing malicious activities on their property. Here is a link to our press release providing more details about the conference and our role there. ICSC Conference

The security industry is in the midst of one of the most significant evolutions since CCTV became commonplace. Using cutting edge technology, companies like Stealth Monitoring have the ability to proactively monitor the security cameras of any business in the country from their headquarters in North Texas. Stealth Monitoring’s professional security operators can notify local authorities before malicious activity occurs by combining human judgment to analyze the situation with interactive surveillance equipment.

The latest evolution in this technology is the development of direct relationships with the local authorities. At no expense to the police departments or tax payers, Stealth Monitoring has developed relationships with police departments that allow them to share video data in real time to improve situational awareness during suspicious incidents.

To find out more about how these relationships work and how Stealth Monitoring is pioneering a new era in security, our latest press release here.

We are proud to announce a new partnership with Cencor Realty to secure their commercial real estate properties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Cencor is one of the top 25 retail focused property management companies in America. We will be securing their shopping centers in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Click here for the full press release…

Stealth Monitoring is pleased to announce that it will be attending the upcoming ISC West Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The ISC West Conference is a gathering of the top security technology producers in the world, and Stealth Monitoring is excited to learn more about the latest video analytics, remote video monitoring services, and other surveillance and access control technologies.  Stealth sends multiple representatives to network with other dealers, manufacturers, software providers, and anyone else working in the industry.

Stealth Monitoring looks forward to forming new business relationships with others in the industry.  In such an rapidly changing field that has weathered the challenging economic climate, Stealth believes that the best results are achieved when the most visionary and experienced minds in the business collaborate.  Going to conferences like ISC West is a great way to get out and network and build up the capabilities of companies involved in partnerships.  In addition to scoping out the offerings of competitors such as the guard companies who are getting more advanced, Stealth enjoys sharing conversations with the start-ups and forward thinking risk takers especially where marketing alliances can be achieved.

For a company like Stealth Monitoring to maintain its research and development department, it needs to continue to explore new technologies and learn from other players in the industry!  Learning more about security technology makes Stealth Monitoring a more competitive company – and also helps it deliver the very latest cost effective technology to its customers.  It’s all about improving the business and producing a fair and reasonable product/service  – and going to conferences like ISC West embodies Stealth Monitoring’s dedication toward being the very best.

Please contact Stealth at 214-341-0123 to schedule an appointment with one of the Stealth representatives that will be attending the show.  Call now and you can be forwarded to someone at the show directly.

We are proud to have been featured in an article on SecuritySales.com about our new relationship with the Addison County Police department.

“The APD can’t afford to build its own video control center partly because of cost,” Stealth Sales Manager Rick Charney tells SSI. “So they use us. By using our virtual guard services, APD is able to reduce false alarms. They can better utilize resources to catch criminals red-handed using this additional video information.”

Link to the SecuritySales.com article

We are proud to have been featured in a story on CBS-DFW, about our new relationship with the Addison Police department. We now have the ability to push notifications of suspicious activity directly to the Addison dispatch center. You can watch the full video and read the article here…

Unique Combination of Technology Spells Bad News for Criminals

Addison, Texas (March 7, 2011) – Police in Addison have a new weapon in the fight against crime thanks to an innovative new process using surveillance cameras, proprietary software  and equipment recently installed at the police department’s dispatch center.  The program, developed by Stealth Monitoring
Inc. of Dallas, operates at no cost to taxpayers and is scheduled for a nationwide roll- out this year.

“Video analytics and trained operators are what sets this program apart from others that use video technology,” said Norm Charney, Stealth Monitoring CEO. “The interaction of software and human intelligence allows the Stealth control room to cost effectively monitor thousands of cameras from its customers.  Any unusual motion or activity instantly draws the attention of the operator by placing an individual camera’s live video on the computer screen for quick action.”

How It Works

When Stealth employees see suspicious activity, rather than making a phone call and describing the suspect or their actions they can instantly “push” the
technology to the Addison Police dispatch center and provide police with the same live video they are observing. The dispatchers determine when a suspect’s
actions warrant dispatching officers.

Responding officers are provided with real time suspect descriptions, actions, vehicles and changes in location.  Not only will the video provide better
information but it will improve safety for officers as well.  A dispatcher might see a suspect hide behind a dumpster just as the officers arrive on the scene and can relay to the officers ‘the suspect just hid behind the dumpster on your right’.

Addison is upgrading its dispatch center so that soon and in the future will be able to provide video directly to patrol cars, PDAs or even cell phones of officers who are responding.  In addition, the video provides an after action recording feature that can include post event descriptions of the vehicle used in the crime, video of the criminals and often the vehicle’s license plate number.

“This program puts Addison on the cutting edge of technology that will make our city safer and our police officers more effective,” said Ron Davis, Addison Chief of Police. “As more businesses and other venues take advantage of this type of technology our dispatchers and police officers will be able to respond more quickly and effectively making it harder for criminals to commit crimes or get away with crimes they have committed.”

“Monitoring video feeds isn’t new,” said Charney. “What is new is our ability to actively live monitor thousands of video feeds from our customers in a cost-
effective manner, identify suspicious activity and notify authorities quickly. This is taking technology beyond the event based monitoring that some companies offer. While video from security cameras can be helpful, immediate notification and confirmation of suspicious activity as well as a video feed directly to the police is a major advancement in the reduction of false alarms and crime.”

Businesses pay for the monitoring service and equipment. The equipment from Stealth is installed free of charge at the police department and allows Addison to create a video fusion center without the expenses normally associated with this technology.

“In today’s tough economic times a program that provides our department with state-of-the-art technology, monitoring services and video monitoring equipment at no cost to taxpayers, made this a win-win proposal,” said Davis.

Media Contacts – Town of Addison – David Margulies (214) 368-0909 addisontx.gov

Stealth Monitoring – Norm Charney President (214 341-0123), Rick Charney Sales
Manager – http://www.stealthmonitoring.com/

Recent Dallas Police statistics published for 2010 indicate that commercial crime incidents are 10% lower over the last eight years in Dallas, Texas. Police credit this downward trend to the use of surveillance cameras and advanced technology, including live video monitoring that notifies police or stakeholders when there are unusual or unauthorized activities. Having someone proactively live monitor security devices allows trained operators to determine if police should be dispatched or stakeholders should be notified.

I recently visited the video monitoring center of Stealth Monitoring. I was curious to see how video monitoring might be used during in-transit truck or trailer and last mile courier moves. Stealth Monitoring management stated that whether the technology is deployed at the corporate facility or actively on the trucks themselves, the industry now has the ability to provide real time monitoring, which could reduce cargo theft and other losses, improve productivity and allow the load to be much more secure because authorities can be immediately contacted and dispatched in the case of problems.

By installing a two camera system and a GPS tracking device in a vehicle along with a cellular mobile internet connection, the vehicle can be monitored not only for exact location, but also as to who is entering the vehicle and what is being loaded or removed.

Stealth is already working with law enforcement and police departments to deploy bait cars and trucks which can be monitored remotely.  Stealth is also now interfacing the technology with some local police departments to provide direct access to video cameras at client’s locations. With the widespread availability of 3G and 4G high speed mobile networks nationwide, there are less and less “dark spots” where coverage is not available.

During my visit to the Stealth Video Monitoring control center in Dallas, I witnessed their capability to monitor thousands of cameras for hundreds of commercial clients.   Norm Charney, owner of Stealth, said he recognized the need of live monitoring because of the lack of effectiveness of surveillance cameras without monitoring or alert capabilities. Having a video recording after the fact is too late to stop vandals or thieves and most of the times, does not provide the needed evidence to identify suspects. When the cameras or devices are live monitored, police can be dispatched in real time and have a great opportunity to arrest the perpetrators.

Stealth Management also showed me how they can utilize their technology to provide access control and surveillance equipment to “lock down” a facility. This “virtual gatekeeper” outsourced service includes opening and closing gates, activating audio speakers, controlling lighting, and allowing authorized entry and exit from the central monitoring center.

JJ Coughlin

J.J. Coughlin, Chairman

Southwest Transportation Security Council

jjcoughlin@sc-integrity.net