ADT Business Solutions

First phase of system to monitor high-crime areas and critical infrastructure underway in Freeport, Texas.

One of our leading security industry organizations has added two important education issues to its 2011 public policy agenda. The Security Industry Association is backing the continued funding of programs that help provide security solutions for K-12 and college and university campuses.

Every day, schools use technology to help protect students. It may be a visitor management system to keep sex offenders off campus or cameras to track events such as bullying. A Denver TV station recently aired a report with ADT’s Patrick Fiel talking about some of those technologies while at a national conference of school administrators.

I recently had a chance to visit PinnacleHealth in Harrisburg, Pa. This is the leading hospital and healthcare system in central Pennsylvania with a 130-year tradition of offering medical services from prenatal to geriatrics. Securing a 607-bed hospital with thousands of patients, clinicians, employees and visitors every day of the year can be a daunting task.