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Adding Video Surveillance Thwarts Theft, Secures Business

Friday, September 30th, 2011 No Comments »

Adding Video Surveillance Thwarts Theft, Secures Business

Today’s business means doing more with less. For businesses, large or small, maximizing profits with less expenditure means there are more resources available to invest in future growth. VoIP has hands down delivered on its promise that networked voice and data improves communication and productivity, simplifies maintenance, and reduces equipment/monthly recurring costs.

However, a truly converged IP network also supports applications like wireless and video over IP (videoconferencing and video surveillance). How? Today, the majority of VoIP equipment is based on open standards like SIP, the application layer protocol that has emerged as the standard for controlling multimedia communication sessions like voice and video over IP. Open standards provide the flexibility to interoperate with multiple vendor equipment allowing small and medium businesses to future proof and extend the existing IP network by converging other critical business applications onto the infrastructure to increase ROI.

SIP-compatible devices today are everywhere. That includes telephone handsets, IP PBXs, IP multimedia phones, smartphones such asApple’s ( News – Alert) IPhone, and now IP surveillance cameras.Now that SIP can carry real-time video signals together with audio to enable face-to-face communications, SMBs have access to a whole new set of tools to monitor business activities, thwart theft, and ensure security and protection. According to MarketsandMarkets, a U.S.-based global market research and consulting company,tower crane, the video surveillance market is expected to grow from $11.5 billion in 2008 to $37.7 billion in 2015 at a CAGR of 20.4 percent from 2010 to 2015.

Window Cleaning Experience

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 No Comments »

Window Cleaning Experience

Window cleaning is not a prospect that most people look forward to doing. The rationale is that it requires more time than we have at our disposal and that it involves an investment in equipment and cleaning products. This is partly true.

If the job consists of row upon row of windows in a skyscraper that is hundreds of feet above the ground, then it is clearly a job for the professional window cleaners. This kind of work is dangerous and requires trained and experienced people who work safely at great heights and in windy conditions.

Windows on single story homes also require annual cleaning and choosing to do this yourself will save money. There is another good reason to do one’s windows. This reason becomes more clear once you have started to witness for yourself the end result of your labor. There is something about using good, honest elbow grease to clean one’s home that is very rewarding. This means that instead of hiring someone else to do the job,tower crane, you apply your own body and mind to the physical task itself.

What is key to getting good results in a reasonable time frame is to get organized. A reasonable calculation needs to be done on how much time will be needed to do the allocated windows. If you are a first time cleaner then you will need to experiment with one window first. This means writing down a step by step process to follow. If a ladder is needed for some of the windows, then you will need to ask yourself if the job is still possible for you to do.

If however, the windows can be done with a standard step ladder then the do it yourself window washing can continue.

Other than the ladder the only other pieces of equipment required will be a bucket, rubber gloves and a squeegee. The squeegee is a handheld device with a sponge on one side and a rubber blade on the other. The sponge side is used to wash the glass and the blade side removes the excess water off the surface of the glass.