Industry Solutions in the Austin Metroplex

Protecting your home and family begins with installing a high-quality home security camera system at your residence that provides 24/7 monitoring. Many of today’s criminals won’t think twice about breaking into a home, regardless of whether it’s occupied or not, which can put you and your family at greater risk of harm. By offering industry solutions in the Austin Metroplex, we ensure you have access to the best security technologies to keep your loved ones safe.

1st Choice Security & Investigations takes a proactive role in home security by offering the latest home camera systems and solutions for protecting your home and loved ones.

Find the Best Home Security Solutions for Your Home

Protect your home from intruders, theft, and property damage with well-designed home surveillance camera systems.

• Trusted Solutions: Our security camera systems for homes are built to deliver exceptional performance, durability and desired results. Our trusted camera systems come in high-resolution options that deliver sharp, detailed images, user-friendly interfaces, multiple recording modes, remote viewing, and easy offloading of video.
• Customizable: We can customize your home security systems to meet your specific application and location needs. Every home and neighborhood is different and may require a unique combination of systems in order to produce the best results.
• High-Resolution Video: Most home burglaries go unsolved due to a lack of evidence. A high-resolution video security system that enables you to zoom in on video can provide the sharp, detailed images needed for facial identification and court-admissible video evidence.
• Remote Management: View and manage your video from anywhere—remotely! Remotely access and monitor your home’s video from the internet via your laptop, mobile device, or smartphone.

Protect Your Home From Break-ins and Theft

Across the US, there has been an increase in the number of home invasions and home burglaries. Strategically placed home security cameras and home video security systems can provide around-the-clock monitoring and alert you if an intruder is trying to break into your home.

Back Door: Did you know that the back door is the second most popular area of entry for home burglaries? Installing a security camera with a clear view of the back door enables you to monitor this vulnerable entry point.

• A vandal-resistant security camera can prevent tampering and provide protection against physical impact.
• Make sure your back door security camera is unobstructed. Keep landscaping and shrubbery trimmed near back doors to ensure you capture any and all activity.
• Vandal-resistant security cameras provide protection against tampering and physical impact from thieves who may try to vandalize the camera to prevent being captured on video.

Backyard: The backyard of your home is enticing for thieves to gain entry into your home and steal high-ticket items from your property. Thieves can break in and enter your home through backyard French doors or sliding glass patio doors.

• Many thieves target backyards to steal lawn equipment, grills, recreational vehicles, and other items. Make sure you keep these items locked up and monitor the backyard and storage areas.
• A high-resolution infrared (IR) camera can provide low-light and nighttime surveillance capabilities.

Garage: Oftentimes, thieves enter a home through an open or unlocked attached garage.

• Always keep your garage door locked, even while you are home, and don’t keep your car in the driveway with the garage door opener inside, making it easy for a thief to enter your home.
• Installing a video security camera with a clear view of the garage and driveway can help deter home break-ins and theft.
• Motion detection recording can help you eliminate sifting through video footage where nothing is happening and reduce hard drive storage requirements.

Whether you manage a single retail store, a multi-site retail franchise, or a nation-wide retail chain, you need your video surveillance system to provide value well beyond the basic benefits of security, loss prevention, and risk management.

Today's retail business managers need tools specifically designed to empower their security, marketing and operational teams with information to effectively grow and protect the company's bottom line.

1st Choice Security & Investigations commercial surveillance systems and retail security solutions provide intelligent visual integration with existing retail systems to solve long-standing challenges faced by retailers of every size and specialty.

Retail Statistics

Retail stores are extremely susceptible to theft. In fact, studies show that the average retail business with $1M+ in revenue is losing more than $50K per year.

Business loss comes from a variety of sources, including:

• Employee theft (47%)
• Shoplifting (32%)
• Administrative error (14%)
• Vendor fraud (4%)

Source: National Retail Federation

With our retail security systems, you can:

• Prevent Loss: Deter shoplifting, prevent employee theft, and reduce inventory shrinkage.
• Improve profitability: detect cashier-related shrink, detect fraudulent transactions (discounts, cash refunds, coupons, zero-sales, returns, and more).
• Enhance Customer Experience: Monitor employee/customer interactions, improve facility service levels, monitor stock-outs, blocked aisles, and long queues.
• Optimize Store Performance: Improve staff planning, increase employee productivity, analyze customer behavior and traffic flow, and optimize store layout.
• Increase Conversion Rates: Evaluate and improve the effectiveness of in-store advertising and other marketing activities; analyze store conversion rates.
• Mitigate Facility Risk: Reduce the likelihood and cost of defending fraudulent "slip and fall" claims and other lawsuits.

Case Study: Discover how a video management solution provided The Limited with a more accurate way to count customer traffic in its stores so that management could improve customer service, staffing, merchandising effectiveness, and ultimately profitability.

Additionally, our retail security systems enable you to:

• Manage from ANYWHERE: Remotely monitor your store(s) via the Internet and manage multiple stores from a centralized location.
• Improve Management Efficiencies Reduce time spent investigating suspect incidents; produce detailed exception reporting linked to video evidence.
• Improve Operational Consistency: Monitor and maintain system-wide operational standards.

1st Choice Security & Investigations are ideal for:

• Convenience stores
• Gas stations
• Apparel retailers
• Specialty stores
• Grocery stores
• High-risk stores
• Full-service and quick-serve restaurants

Important Tips and Considerations

System Configuration: When setting up a video security system for your retail store, there are several key considerations:

• Position cameras at all entrances and exits (preferably at eye level or above) in order to get a clear identity of each person who enters your store.
• Place surveillance cameras in stock rooms and storage areas to prevent employee theft and track your merchandise.
• Focus additional cameras (consider hidden cameras) on areas where valuable merchandise (jewelry, electronics, pharmaceuticals) is stored or shelved.
• Always consider using a networkable video recorder (NVR) to manage your security footage. NVRs record and store video locally and enable you to broadcast your security footage via the Internet, allowing you to monitor your retail store(s) from anywhere at any time.
• Outdoor cameras in your parking lot can help reduce theft of customer cars and shopping carts and help reduce store liability in the event of an accident.

Privacy Protection: Always install your security cameras in public areas, such as the sales floor, the customer service desk, or warehouse/inventory rooms. Avoiding areas such as bathrooms and employee break rooms will maintain privacy for your employees and customers.

Disruptions: Power surges or outages can lead to damage or disruptions in your video surveillance footage. While these risks are not common, you should consider having an alternate power supply and/or security system in place should this occur in your Pflugerville store.

Theft and Vandalism: Cameras and recorders are often targets for thieves looking to disguise or protect their identities. Always keep your recording solution in a safe and locked location, and supplement your security system with covert cameras to capture video evidence should your traditional cameras be disabled.

Whether you manage a single office building, a campus consisting of several buildings, or a network including multiple locations requiring centralized management, you need your video surveillance system to provide value well beyond the basic benefits of security, loss prevention, and risk management.

1st Choice Security & Investigations commercial surveillance solutions are designed to address the surveillance and operational needs of businesses of any size and empower you to grow as you go.

Build the Perfect Corporate Business Security System

A surveillance solution for your business does not have to be expensive or difficult to install. In most cases, the security solution will pay for itself within months by deterring theft and intruders, reducing shrinkage, reducing liability and improving productivity.

Tips for Protecting Your Business from Theft

The larger your business, the more vulnerable you are to employee theft, productivity issues, insurance liability, and the resulting impact on your profitability. Here are some top tips to help protect your business.

• Install a High-Quality Video Surveillance System: A video surveillance system equipped with high-resolution video cameras, a DVR or NVR, and real-time alerts enables you to conveniently monitor your location.
• Invest in an IP-Based Access Control Solution. IP-based access control helps prevent unauthorized access. It provides a flexible security solution with easy and convenient management.
• Install Hidden Cameras: Hidden cameras come in a variety of forms that blend in well in almost every business environment, from binders to smoke detectors.
• Integrate Your Data with the Power of Video: The Video Data Management System allows you to seamlessly integrate your high-definition video with data from your POS and EAC systems to deliver video-enhanced business intelligence to empower your security.
• Choose the Right Security Camera for Each Location: Having the right security camera in place to monitor specific areas is important for protecting your business.
• Frequently Test Your Alarm Systems and Surveillance Equipment: It is a good idea to frequently test your alarm system and your surveillance equipment on a regular basis to ensure they are working optimally.

Our security experts are here to provide a free business needs analysis to understand your security concerns, identify other areas of potential vulnerability, and design the perfect video surveillance system to protect your single or multi-site operation.

Vehicle cameras and complete mobile surveillance systems are ideal for use on buses and other vehicles.

Public transit operators today face many challenges. Transportation companies have relied on video surveillance for years to deter theft and protect personnel and property. Our mobile surveillance products can help. Digital video recording systems provide security against litigation and safety for passengers and drivers.

1st Choice Security & Investigations professional transportation solutions provide intelligent visual integration with existing logistics and business systems to address challenges that businesses in the transportation industry are faced with on a daily basis.

Use our public transportation security systems to:

• Reduce Theft and Vandalism: deter property theft and vandalism and prevent internal theft.
• Improve Display Effectiveness: Analyze and improve the effectiveness of signage and informational displays.
• Protect Against Potential Threats: Actively monitor public areas for abandoned objects or items removed.
• Improve Operational Consistency: Monitor and maintain system-wide operational consistency.

Additionally, our government solutions enable you to:

• Manage from ANYWHERE: Remotely monitor locations via the Internet and manage multiple places from a centralized location.
• Improve Management Efficiencies: Reduce time spent investigating suspect incidents; produce detailed exception reporting linked to video evidence.
• Improve Operational Consistency: Monitor and maintain system-wide operational standards.
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Our transportation security systems are ideal for use in:

• Mass Transit
• Airports
• Railway Systems
• Bus Systems
• Freight carriers
• Air and sea cargo operations

Financial services companies have relied on video surveillance for years to deter theft and protect personnel. With advances in technology, video systems that were once solely intended to provide for loss prevention and risk management are now capable of much more and have a far greater impact on the bottom line.

The larger your business, the more vulnerable you are to employee theft, productivity issues, insurance liability, and the resulting impact on your profitability. Our financial security experts are here to provide a free business needs analysis to understand your security concerns, identify other areas of potential vulnerability, and design the perfect video surveillance system to protect your single or multi-site operation.

1st Choice Security & Investigations financial service security solutions provide intelligent visual integration with existing business systems to address challenges that banks, credit unions, and others in the financial services industry face on a daily basis.

Use 1st Choice Security & Investigations Financial & Banking Services Security Solutions to:

• Reduce Theft and Vandalism: deter and/or prevent internal and external theft; decrease vandalism.
• Mitigate Facility Risk: reduce the likelihood and cost of defending fraudulent claims and lawsuits.
• Improve Display Effectiveness: Analyze and improve the effectiveness of signage and informational displays.
• Improve Operational Consistency: Monitor and maintain system-wide operational consistency.

1st Choice Security & Investigations Systems are ideal for:

• National and regional banks
• Community banks
• Credit unions
• Insurance companies
• Independent agencies
• Payday lenders

We provide highly integrated security solutions that go well beyond traditional intrusion alerts and access control.

Health care providers have relied on video surveillance for years to deter theft and protect personnel and assets. With advances in technology, video systems that were once solely intended to provide for loss prevention and risk management are now capable of much more and have a far greater impact on the bottom line.

1st Choice Security & Investigations healthcare security systems provide intelligent visual integration with existing business systems to address concerns and challenges that businesses in the healthcare industry confront.

Use 1st Choice Security & Investigations Healthcare Security Systems to:

• Enhance Patient Experience: Monitor employee/patient interactions, improve facility service levels, and better understand patient traffic flow and wait times.
• Reduce Theft and Vandalism: deter and/or prevent internal and external theft; decrease vandalism.
• Mitigate Facility Risk: reduce the likelihood and cost of defending fraudulent claims and lawsuits.
• Improve Display Effectiveness: Analyze and improve the effectiveness of signage and informational displays.
• Improve Operational Consistency: Monitor and maintain system-wide operational consistency.

Additionally, 1st Choice Security & Investigations' security solutions enable you to:

• Manage from ANYWHERE: Remotely monitor your store(s) via the Internet and manage multiple stores from a centralized location.
• Improve Management Efficiencies: Reduce time spent investigating suspect incidents; produce detailed exception reporting linked to video evidence.
• Improve Operational Consistency: Monitor and maintain system-wide operational standards.

Our health care solutions are ideal for:

• Hospitals
• Urgent care centers
• Long-term care facilities
• Medical and dental offices

1st Choice Security & Investigations security systems help government facilities master security, safety, and communication challenges.

From state and local offices to expansive federal agencies, government administrators have grown increasingly dependent on video surveillance for years to prevent theft and protect facilities and personnel.

With advances in technology, video systems that were once solely intended to provide for security and risk management are now capable of much more and have a far greater benefit to facility managers—and ultimately, taxpayers.

1st Choice Security & Investigations professional security solutions provide intelligent visual integration with existing business systems to address concerns that are faced by governmental entities at all levels.

Use 1st Choice Security & Investigations government security systems to:

• Expand Safety Capabilities: Improve awareness and proactive monitoring of public facilities.
• Reduce Theft and Vandalism: deter and/or prevent internal and external theft of public assets; decrease vandalism.
• Protect Against Potential Threats: Actively monitor public areas for abandoned objects or items removed.
• Improve Operational Consistency: Monitor and maintain system-wide operational consistency.

Additionally, our government solutions enable you to:

• Manage from ANYWHERE: Remotely monitor locations via the Internet and manage multiple places from a centralized location.
• Improve Management Efficiencies: Reduce time spent investigating suspect incidents; produce detailed exception reporting linked to video evidence.
• Improve Operational Consistency: Monitor and maintain system-wide operational standards.

1st Choice Security & Investigations government security systems are ideal for:

• City and County Government
• State Agencies
• Federal Departments and Agencies

Schools and universities have grown increasingly dependent on video surveillance to deter theft and protect students, faculty, and personnel. With advances in technology, video systems that were once solely intended to provide for security and risk management are now much more capable and have a far greater impact on the overall campus experience.

1st Choice Security & Investigations education security systems provide intelligent visual integration with existing systems to address concerns that are faced by educational institutions of every size and at all levels.

At 1st Choice Security & Investigations, we understand that safe and nurturing environments are the necessary foundation for education. We provide innovative security solutions that secure public and private buildings, improve overall safety and protect students, educators and the public.

Layered Security:

The most effective plan will combine multiple layers of security.

• Perimeter Security: Video surveillance around the perimeter of the school can act as both a deterrent and an early detection tool.
• Access Control: Restricted access to designated areas can ensure that intruders can never reach critical areas of the school buildings.
• Training and Drills: Students, faculty and staff are the last line of defense. Training and unannounced drills practiced at least annually build confidence and reassure students that safety is being taken seriously by the school.

Use 1st Choice Security & Investigations education and security systems to:

• Promote General Safety: improve security for your students, staff, and campus personnel.
• Enhance Student Experience: Reduce crowding, improve parking, and use video as an educational or training tool.
• Reduce Theft and Vandalism: deter and/or prevent internal and external theft; decrease vandalism.
• Improve Display Effectiveness: Analyze and improve the effectiveness of signage and informational displays.
• Mitigate Campus Risk: reduce the likelihood and cost of defending fraudulent claims and lawsuits.
• Improve Operational Consistency: Monitor and maintain system-wide operational standards.

Additionally, our educational solutions enable you to:

• Improve Management Efficiencies: Reduce time spent investigating suspect incidents; produce detailed exception reporting linked to video evidence.
• Improve Operational Consistency: Monitor and maintain system-wide operational standards.

1st Choice Security & Investigations education security systems are an excellent choice for

• Colleges and universities
• Primary and secondary schools
• Training centers
• Vocational centers
• Daycare facilities