As with many industries, the contract security guard industry has to keep up with the times and that means taking advantage of the latest technology. Part of that may include finding the right guard tour system to track and report on the movement of your security officers when they are on patrol.

In this article I am going to look at some detail about why you need one and what you would expect from this kind of system.

Why do you need a Guard Tour System ?

Just think about how your officer will do his patrol without technology. He walks around the property with a pen and paper and writes down any issues that he finds. At the end of the

day, he may have to compile those notes into a daily activity report and get that back to his supervisor and the client. Other than these notes, there is very little to show that he has

actually done his job.

How can a client, or a supervisor for that matter, really be sure that your officer is doing their job and your company is providing good value for money? How much time does management waste collating all the notes and getting out reports to clients? How much effort is put into storing the reports for when the client comes back in a year and wants details?

With a guard tour system, the officer patrols around a number of checkpoints. When he reaches a checkpoint, it is scanned and the time recorded. In the case of a smartphone based system, he can also record details and take pictures. As you well know, the more documentation the better.

All this leads to a whole lot of advantages over a manual system. Key among these are efficiency, simplicity and accountability which I will explore in more detail once we know exactly what a guard tour is.

Factors in choosing a Guard Tour System

There are really two main types of guard tour systems, those based on proprietary hardware which are often known as wand based guard tour systems/RFID Guard Patrol Reader, and those based on smartphone and cloud technology.

In the case of a wand based system, the checkpoints are proprietary pieces of hardware typically known as buttons/RFID tags.  Each button contains a microchip with a unique ID. Since they are the only form of input, the officer will have a personal button to login, then will do his patrol hitting fixed buttons that are at fixed locations. If there is an incident, he might be able to classify it using a collection of buttons, one for each type of incident. Scanning a button, however, is the only input data these wands collect. There is no way to capture any other details of an incident. At the end of the patrol, or after several patrols, the wand needs to be connected some kind of downloader device so the information can transferred to a local computer or the cloud for reporting purposes.

In the case of a smartphone based system, the checkpoints are either QR codes or RFID tags.  I have written at some length about the advantages and disadvantages of each in previous posts but essentially RFID tags work similarly to buttons in that they each have a unique ID that cannot be duplicated while QR codes are printed bar codes that are far easier to copy. In contrast to the buttons, however, location specific information can be associated with the RFID tag. When the checkpoint is reached, these checkpoint specific instructions are can be displayed  on the phone’s screen. This really has a huge advantage in terms of training as the most up to date instructions are often found here. The officer can then enter details or even take pictures as needed. This data is sent in real-time over the internet to the cloud for reporting. With this solution, you combine simplified communication, efficient training and accountability with ease of use.

When deciding which way to go, you really have to look at several issues such as cost, durability and functionality.

Wand based systems have one real advantage in that they are custom built and therefore can be very rugged. On the other hand, smart phones are often a lot cheaper and offer a lot more in terms of functionality in that they have a screen to display things, are connected full time to the internet and have extra useful hardware as standard such as GPS and cameras.

That’s not counting the most obvious feature of a smartphone, that it is a phone and therefore a communication device. Ultimately, that might mean you can replace two devices with one as a guard with a smartphone can do without a radio and a wand. The ruggedness concern of a phone can often be mitigated by putting it in a suitable case.

Making your life easier with the right Guard Tour System

For a guard tour system to be great, it clearly needs to make your life easier. There are number of ways a good system will do that.

Reducing Training Time and Costs

Because instructions are available to the officer whenever they reach a checkpoint, your training time is drastically reduced both for new officers and experienced officers covering a shift. When an incident occurs, the system should be able to pop up a form to guide the officer through gathering the correct information. This means less time making sure they remember every detail as it will be right in front of them when needed.

Easier Reporting

The system will remove management overhead and save you time with report writing. A guard tour system, and particularly a smartphone based one, will save a lot of overhead through automation.  Your officers are able to enter the information in real-time and make sure they get all the details into the system in a quick and efficient manner. This is made even easier today by the huge advances that have been made in voice-to-text technology that means that those who prefer can dictate these notes directly into the phone rather than type them.  Voice-to-text also allows a guard to record their observations on the go as they are performing their patrols. No stopping to write it all out!
 

You will no longer be manually writing reports but having them generated from incident reports and observations uploaded to the cloud. Great systems will automatically email out daily activity reports to your clients, saving you even more time.

Improved Situational Awareness

You get much better situational awareness of what your employees are doing on a minute to minute basis when using this type of system. Particularly with smartphone based systems, you will be able to see every officer’s location on a map in real-time.  You can also see incidents as they happen together with photographic and video evidence available in real time. This improved situational awareness also translates into better officer safety. When an officer is in trouble, they can immediately initiate an alarm back to headquarters. Since you know where all the other officers are, it is easy to get him backup or to inform the authorities that he needs help.

Better Compliance

A good system will help you comply with laws. There are many laws out there such as FSLA that require you to keep detailed records of the hours worked by your employees.  Using the time and attendance features of a good guard tour management system, you will not only have accurate records, but automatically keep them for as long as required by law without any extra effort on your part as they will all be available in the cloud.

Going Paperless

The system can save you money by vastly reducing paper usage. It’s not just the triplicate and quadruplicate copies of paper forms that costs you money but the storage needed to keep it for years to protect yourself legally and provide records for clients who ask for it. By using a cloud based system, all your tours and reports are kept safely and indefinitely saving you a vast amount of effort and cost.

Understanding the Big Picture

By deploying a guard tour management system, you are collecting valuable information on which to do analytics. As an experienced security manager, you have a gut feel of where the issues are and how to deploy your guards. Wouldn’t be helpful to be able to validate your feelings with numbers? You will be able to see long term trends of just what type of issues are coming up at each client and deploy your force better to deal with them. You will have a complete historic record of all tours and incidents so you can dig into specific details as well when you need to understand any issues around officer’s past performance.

Better Officer Performance

The truth is, people work better when they know they are being monitored. They are less likely to just skip that one hard place to get to in the middle of a rain storm when they know you will easily find out. By deploying a guard tour system, you are sending a clear message to your employees that you care that they are doing a good job. You are also providing them with a tool that will make it easier to do that good job so it’s a win-win all around.

Making your customers want to stay with you because of your Guard Tour System

Have you ever been in a position where you feel you are just getting hired as a scapegoat in case something goes wrong? The best way to fight against that perception is to deliver tangible value to your client. That’s where a great guard tour system can shine.

Accountability

The first thing you need out of a great guard tour system is accountability. That means the system needs to record the right information to show that you deliver on your promises. By integrating GPS tracking and checkpoint tracking, you can give your customers a very clear picture of your officer’s movements during each and every patrol. Add in incident reports with pictures and timestamps, you go even further to make sure they can truly rely on you.

Clear and Concise Reporting

The second thing is simplicity through clear reporting. Your customer does not want to wade through detailed reports full of obscure codes or handwritten daily activity reports that are prone to error.  Most just want a nice green smiley face when things are going well. On the other hand, when things have gone wrong, you need to be able to give them the detail they need to reassure themselves that you handled the situation appropriately. This means a great guard tour system needs to include a great reporting system to make sure you give them just the level of detail they need.

Ease of Accessibility

Your client wants to know that you are accessible whenever they need you. Having the ability to look at their reports how and when they want them is a must have for a good guard tour system. Self service reports are not just a win for the client but a win for you in terms of productivity. Your client does not want to have to contact you every time they need a report from a few months ago and you don’t want to have to spend time looking for those reports.

This stretches to two way communication as well. Your client will be much happier if they can directly enter post order and pass down instructions into their web portal than if they have to jump through many hoops to get you the correct information you need.

In Conclusion

In order to compete in today’s world, you need to make sure you give your customers more than they expect.  One of the easiest ways to do that is using great technology. By deploying a guard tour system you can set yourself apart from those who still rely on the old, manual way of doing business and grow both your customer base and your profitability. While there is a cost to these systems, it certainly is not nearly as high as the extra profit you will make by choosing to get ahead of the competition with technology helping to provide the highest level of service possible.  Add in the increase in productivity and ask yourself this question. Can you afford not to have a guard tour system?

ZOOY , the top manufacturer of guard tour system who offering both wand based guard tour system and smartphone based Patrol APP. Whatever which kink of function required or budget , we can offer the proper products and solution. Established in 2006, our products cover the community’s daily patrolling for basic RFID Guard Patrol Wand , help supervisor count the attendance efficiently by actual report , and improved security officer’s attendance .

Offer GPRS Guard Patrol System, these are main for industry’s data collection , such as factory’s equipment daily maintenance inspection recording , such as factory , telecommunications, petrochemical and other industry.

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Structure: column of cantilever rack adopts H - shaped steel or cold rolled steel, and the cantilever arm adopts square pipe, cold rolled shape steel or H shape steel. The height of the rack is usually within 2.5 meters (up to 6 meters for the access of the forklift truck), the cantilever arm is normally within 1.5 meters, and the load capacity per each arm is usually within 1,000 kg.

Application: this type of structural cantilever racks are widely used in machinery manufacturing and building materials supermarkets. After adding the panels, it is especially suitable for low and small warehouse for convenient management and wide field of view, which is more efficient than long span shelf.

1. How many method for RFID non-contact check point ?

What are the characteristics?
There are different shape for rfid non-contact check point: Round/Square shape, coin type with hole and tube shape.
Installation:

1. Fixed with screws: This is suitable for coin type and round/square shape. Can fix these check point with screws
   Advantage : Easy found while patrolling

Disadvantage : Easy to be damaged

b.  Buried in wall : Can bury check point into wall, in around less than 5mm depth ，this is usually applied for tube shape check point. Then covered by cement
Advantage ：Hard to be damaged
Disadvantage ：Can not find easily

2. Why ZOOY with so strict demand for patrol clocking system quality ?
Because patrol clocking system are working for personnel management , its easy antagonistic from employee . Some guys will put patrol reader into water and then said its fault because of raining . Or beat device purposely. And usually patrol reader are used in wild /outdoor, so if poor design it can not work even. Usually market is with demand for guard patrol clocking be : waterproof, rugged to resist dropping . Can work at low temperature , long battery service time and avoid malicious power consumption .

ZOOY works for guard patrol system development since 2006, we improved the performance with years user experience , whatever from the communication port or RFID sensor head , PCB structure , all are based on the aim be rugged , waterproof and low power consumption .

3. Why Guard Tour Management Software is very important in Guard Tour System ?
Guard Patrol reader is just an accessory among guard tour system , but for supervisor if patrol result can not be corrected recorded and query , or not user-friendly . For some supervisor , maybe they are not familiar for computer technical, its very important to get a user-friendly software . And for mass data , its important to get correct result and fast processing speed , so artificial intelligence verification processing it’s the key factor . Some supplier they emphasis on hardware but belittling software , patrol reader like a recorder only , data processing should handled manually .

ZOOY’s new guard tour management software Patrol V6.0 solved

4. Why use web based guard tour management software ?

In the first , guard patrol system is a tiny part in security system , and no much application for network visiting , but with popularization of computer network and improvement of management , various area all ask web based management for guard patrolling .

ZOOY Web based guard tour management software can gathering patrol data from multiple branch , allow remote transferring and visiting ,help improving for management .

5. What’s the features of ZOOY Guard Patrol Management Software ?
ZOOY‘s development team is contain many expert who are from modeling structure designing , electromagnetism, software development ,with fully investigated from market , refer to oversea products and self-development , with some outstanding features :

1. Systematic design : From the application software to the integrated design of the hardware, wholly based on client demand purchase , enable fast SDK for OEM/ODM users

2) High and reliable performance, strong practicality . In particular, the design of electromagnetism has revolutionized the power consumption, making the non-contact RFID sensing be more practical. Low the failure rate .

3) Web based management software , professional customization for management software , make all user want function contained , meet various client demand. Products are all designed , production, sales with ISO9001

6.   What should be noticed while RFID check point applied in metal surface ?

Since the non-contact check point is transmitted power and download data through electromagnetic waves, the use of metal surface will affect the card scanning distance. Should use a card holder to fix check point , like put the non-metal materials leave the rfid check point 5-10mm away from the metal surface . Can also use the specified rfid check point , which can applied in metal surface directly ,

Box of nonmetal materials to the card pad from the metal surface can be 5-10 mm, of course also can use specially designed can be used in the metal surface and metal point card, this point card is not affected by the metal, and can be embedded in the metal. This kind of point card is not affected by metal and can be used in metal.

Security will be bolstered at forthcoming Christmas markets around the UK as councils aim to prevent a repeat of the Berlin attack that left 12 dead and 56 injured last year.

Concrete bollards, armed police and random bag searches are among the measures being considered by police and local councils.

The Local Government Association is reported to have urged councils to adhere to government guidance on protecting crowded places from attack.

Some Christmas market organisers are working with police to provide anti-terror training to staff as part of Project Griffin, a counter-terrorism initiative aimed at businesses.

Depending on the terror threat level – currently severe (an attack is highly likely) – at the time, armed officers could be stationed around markets’ perimeter. Councils are stressing, however, that an armed police presence does not necessarily mean that an attack is imminent.

Demand for concrete bollards has surged in the last two years following a series of attacks – including incidents in Nice, Berlin and London Bridge – where terrorists have weaponised vehicles in order to inflict mass casualties.

Physical barriers were installed on three of London’s bridges in the wake of June’s terror attack at London Bridge and Borough Market.

Guard Patrol System ,as a powerful tool to manage security guards attendance. Which work with RFID technology to track whether security duty officer to go around the different parts of an area or building at regular times to check that there is no trouble or danger .

ZOOY is the top manufacturer product guard tour system and offer guard patrol solution for kinds area such as public security , street patrolling , bank patrol and so on…

Shot blasting machine in the work will inevitably appear oil spill situation. For example: Shot blasting machine engine rotary shaft, shot blasting machine engine oil leakage and a series of oil spills. So how can we deal with these sudden oil spills? Let's take a look at the common oil spill problems and measures.

1, shot blasting machine engine rotary shaft.

Reason and measures: If the shaft and hole wear each other, you can start the engine shaft and clutch handle shaft in the lathe cut out the seal ring groove, fitted with the corresponding size of the seal ring can be. If the aging of the decompression axis ring failure, should replace the new apron.

2, shot blasting machine plug oil plug( including tapered block, flat plug and process block)

Reasons and measures: If the oil plug is damaged or unacceptable, replace the new parts; if the screw hole damage, can increase the size of the screw hole, equipped with new oil block. If the cone-shaped wear, the tap can be used after tapping to flat plug, and then add the equipment used.

3, shot blasting machine engine oil leakage, switches, including water valves, fuel tank switches and gasoline switches.

Reasons and measures: If the ball valve wear or corrosion, should remove the ball valve and the hole between the rust, and select the appropriate ball instead. If the shock sealer and the fastening thread are damaged by the shot blasting machine, the fasteners and the replacement packing shall be repaired or replaced. If the cone joint surface is not tight, available fine valve sand and oil grinding.

4, shot blasting machine engine plane joint oil spill, plane joints, including paper pads, asbestos pad and cork sealed two planes. Wait.

Reason and measures: If the contact surface is uneven or contact surface with groove marks or burrs, should be based on the degree of uneven contact with the use of assorted file, fine sandpaper or oil mill polished, large machine available milling machine. In addition, the assembly of the gasket to be qualified, while cleaning, put down. If the bolt is loose, tighten the fixing bolts.

5, shot blasting machine engine pipe joints oil leakage, including conical joint and hollow bolt fittings.

Reason and measures: Cone joint pipe fittings, including pressure gauge at both ends, one end of the tubing, high pressure tubing at both ends and the fuel coarse filter to the pump end of the pipe joints, if the shot blasting machine engine high pressure tubing joints wear deformation or cracks, It can be sawed, for a good joint welding. If the low-pressure tubing joints damaged, can be cut off the trumpet, re-making bells. If the thread is damaged, repair or replace the new piece. Hollow bolt fittings include fuel crude, fine filter and fuel injection pump low pressure tubing fittings. If the gasket is damaged or uneven assembly, can be used for plastic gasket, or with assorted file trim, can also be used sandpaper polished, serious milling machine can be used to milling. If the pipe joints on the plane to produce drawing marks, can be used fine sandpaper or linoleum flattened joint assembly plane and gasket; if the mating surface with impurities, the assembly should pay attention to the body clean, joint fixing bolts should be tightened.

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Now the market have two main LCD Screen Repair Separator Machine, te yellow one and black one as below:
What are the diffierences between them? Which lcd separator is suitable for you?

First:  The temperature controller is different, the black one uses industrial,  which is widely used in BGA rework stations, because it can bring high accurate and precise temperature detection.

Second:  the black LCD Screen Repair Separator Machine uses sheet metal, which can experience high temperature higher then 300 degree. But the yellow one uses bakelite（Phenolic Resin,)  once the temperature get to 150 degrees, the material will give off  toxic gases which is bad for your health .

Third:The black lcd repair machine is 2 in one . It is not only ideal for separator the cell phone LCDS,  but also can be used for bga reballing & soldering like reflow oven ht-1212, because the temperature can get to 200 degrees, but the yellow one can only get to less then 150 degrees, only can repair cell phone lcds.

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Promotion Price for OCA Vacuum Laminating Machine The Differences between Vacuum

Laminator and Newest 4 in 1 Laminator .
For the Separate Vacuum Laminator Machine (the first one ): you mainly to check its

efficienty , and also based on your repair business . Normally , need laminate about

10S for removing bubbles , this may inhance the refubish efficient,and also it is

very easy for operating .  


4 in 1 Vacuum Laminator : This machine may be much suiatable for the repair whose

refurbish business are not very large , it may take about 2min-5min to finish

laminating , and no need remove bubbles , it is very convinient to operate this

machine .And it is small , no need very big space for it .
Within this machine , it can save much money to buy the extra Vacuum Pump , Air

Compressor , And Bubble Remover Machine ,too .

Another Vacuum Laminating Machine ( $1900 ) has an extra Autoclave Cylinder , and

this one is much easier for operation than the another cheaper one ($1800 ) .

My Suggestion is :
If you are very familier with OCA Laminating Processing , you are a technicial on

this , then you can choose the cheaper one , that machine required high quality OCA

and also more professional operator . If not , during laminating processing , may

still have bubbles remained .   that is not concerned to the machine quality , it

is mainly decided on the operator's experiences .
If you are not so professional on Laminating , then choose the another more

expensive one , $1900 .

This machine is much easier for operation , and it has an autoclave cylinder , can

remove bubbles very clean .

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Because LCD display not light, ISO identification requirement in order to display

bright, polarizing film must have a clear, high permeability and high optical

activity. LCD recently becoming more widely used, such as livelihood, military and

high-tech, particularly application of intelligent machines. Due to the diversity of

the LCD and the durability of promotion, we must strengthen the durability and

resistance to rotation of the polarized film.

In addition, the appearance of characters on, with the draw cable LCD improving

polarizing film surfaces must be smooth and fine, if prolonged use at high

temperature and high humidity environment, must also be maintained on the optical

performance, and with one of the key parts of the security requirements for

adhesives, usually in a polarizing film manufacturing process, is carried out in

clean room:
1. is PVA polarizing film footage and TAC, so it is not available on the foreign

body and resin that is not soluble.
2. in the polarizing film laminating process, not glue, lamination and when there is

any foreign body into.
3. the protection film and release film and other materials may not have any

defects.
4. finished surface and cutting surfaces, or on the wrapper should not be mixed with

any foreign objects attached to it.

If the above conditions cannot be met, you cannot make a high resolution and large

size, high precision of polarizing film.

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