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“While SMS has a core competence ciency of an already professional and
in physical security applications, we well trained security force.
take it a step further by providing an “In New York City, and other major
IT-centric approach to deployment and cities, security is essential but also an
ongoing support. This way our clients amenity that ensures tenant and visitor
receive high availability of their appli- safety,” Al Albrecht (referred to as Al-
cations that are easily scalable as their brecht for rest of article) explains.
needs grow,” explains Craig Albrecht. Among the many objectives of the
SMS has designed and managed project: accelerating awareness of in-
enterprise security systems for some cidents requiring response and rapid
of the most notable and recognizable access to archived video for forensic
buildings in the Big Apple. The in- review. After an extensive and lengthy
dependent integrator serves a blue- evaluation process, SMS was chosen
chip client roster including Fortune by Rose Associates.
500 companies, government agen- “SMS demonstrated to management
cies, multitenant residential develop- that our solution provided superior
ments, commercial high-rise facili- performance. Our team also detailed
ties, hospitals, and K-12 and higher how we would be able to manage the
education campuses. installation of more than four miles
of conduit, cabling and devices with
Securing a Small City a streamlined, methodical approach,”
Most towns and many small cities says Albrecht. “The specifi cations were
have fewer residents and visitors than generic so we surveyed the project
the 30,000 inhabiting Peter Cooper Vil- building by building to determine op-
© Getty Images lage/Stuyvesant Town, a collection of timum access control, and camera lo-
cations in conjunction with available
red brick apartment buildings contain-
power and other building services.”
ing one- to five-bedroom units. The non-

gated complex, with 11,250 apartments, The first phase of the installation
Adept at Advanced Solutions stretches from First Avenue to Avenue C spanned three years and was complet-
Founded in 1978 by Al Albrecht, to- and from 14th to 23rd Streets. ed in 2010.
gether with son Craig, SMS is staffed by Overlooking the East River in Man-
industry-leading technicians, engineers hattan, the apartment buildings are set Designing a Grid for Success
and programmers who design, build and within a beautifully landscaped park. In The massive project presented two
manage a full range of integrated securi- addition to many playgrounds and ath- primary challenges. SMS was able to
ty systems. The company, which places letic courts, the community offers on- address and solve both of them — pow-
special emphasis on remote support and site parking, storage, a seasonal green- er and the lack of existing infrastruc-
managed services, also offers expertise market, and free music and movies on ture — with innovative solutions.
in access control, video surveillance and the Oval, the center of the complex. Each of the 110 buildings required
analytics, intercom systems, turnstiles, Firms were requested to design and power for cameras, plus uninterrupt-
perimeter/intrusion protection and mass construct user-friendly, fully integrated ed power supply (UPS) backup for ac-
notifi cation systems. systems that would maximize the effi - cess control and locking hardware.

1 2 3
1 SMS project engineers review sche-
matics at one of five security hubs. Each
room is equipped with APC UPS backup
power, Verint camera encoders, video
servers and video storage, in support of
about 20 buildings and the residences.
2 An SMS onsite manager examines
one of the custom-designed low-voltage
power and data distribution frames that
power Pelco video cameras, locks and UPS backup for lobby doors.
3 Activation of Commend call boxes automatically focuses nearby cameras on the
event and provide two-way communication with the command center.

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