Adding a new business location should always be a milestone and something to celebrate. Not a source of stress due to the logistical nightmares of scheduling technicians and re-learning complex hardware when setting up new business alarm systems. In the past, setting up a new location in McAllen, TX, would require adding local NVRs and manually configuring them, which could take days or weeks to get right. 

Deploying security to a new location doesn’t have to be that difficult. We use Verkada’s cloud-managed platform, which treats security as software and lets you clone your ideal security settings from your flagship site to any new storefront. 

Though you’ll still need us to set up the system’s backbone, you'll have full autonomy to activate and configure the site to your liking in a mobile app before the space even opens. With our help, you focus on hiring and training new staff instead of troubleshooting security camera angles, door codes, or alarm notifications. 

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Standardize Your Security Across Multiple Locations

There is a term in our industry called security drift. As new franchises or properties are added, each location begins to have its own alert settings, recording schedules, and user permissions. With security drift, it’s harder to track efficiency and security across locations, and you inevitably end up with some properties that are more vulnerable than others.

This is one of the areas where Verkada is most useful. Verakda lets you clone settings across multiple installations. For user permissions, you instantly apply existing manager and employee access levels to the new site. If your existing office has an alert for any person detected after 10 p.m., your Brownsville and McAllen locations will have the same alert. 

You can also standardize access for personnel working across multiple locations. You’ve just hired a new regional manager. Instead of having to register him across five different systems, you add them once and push his profile across all locations. 

Deploy New Locations in Minutes Instead of Days 

While legacy systems require complex wiring for servers, ports, video recorders, and cameras, Verkada offers a simpler, plug-and-play PoE (Power over Ethernet) setup. There are fewer wires involved, and cameras and sensors can be added to your general Command platform via their serial numbers before we even arrive at the job site. As soon as the hardware is activated, it’s already part of your system and ready to go. 

We’ll handle all the heavy lifting and coordinate with business owners and managers to define your global settings. These include set schedules, camera naming conventions, and go-to alerts. We’ll work with you to figure out which settings need to be cloned across town. 

One Centralized Security Platform for Your Team 

Perhaps the biggest benefit to a cloud-based system is the ‘Single Pane of Glass’ approach to security. No more logging into different apps for each location. Whether you have two sites in McAllen or twenty across the Rio Grande Valley, all video, access control, and alarms live in one centralized dashboard. 

Certain roles (owner, security chief) get a master view of all operations. Meanwhile, on-site managers have control only over their location. Centralization also extends to your equipment health. The system proactively notifies you if a camera goes offline on any site instead of waiting until an accident to realize footage doesn’t exist. 

Your business growth shouldn't be slowed down by 20th-century security hardware. With Verkada and Circle Industries, your security scales as fast as your ambition.

Call us or fill out our contact form to see a demo of the Verkada Command platform and learn how we can secure your McAllen expansion.