Hiring the Best Security Employees
While security technology allows for automated operation, there are still components of your warehouse security plan that would have to manually supervised and thus require careful screening and selection of your security personnel.

Whether direct hiring or outsourcing your security needs to an agency, it’s important to establish the qualifications you require from security personnel. First and foremost, security employees must be familiar with how warehouses work.

With a wide variety of people and products coming and going all the time, it’s understandably hard to keep track of them. You can help them by giving them strategic base points and delegating their responsibilities to ensure that all areas are sufficiently covered.

Give them the best training whenever needed. If you are updating your security system, make sure that all of them are properly educated and trained for it. If you are changing your security policies, be sure that they are oriented regarding the changes.

How to Make Surveillance Efficient
Surveillance–even the most expensive kind–can only be effective if they are professionally installed at the right places.

Installation Concerns
Most of the time, surveillance simply doesn’t work because they aren’t installed properly. If you are strictly against hiring a professional team to install your system then make sure the security system you purchase offers DIY, user-friendly installation.

Complete Surveillance
Complete surveillance system entails that all areas are properly covered and threats are identified ahead of time to allow your security team to take pre-emptive action.

All locations must be equipped with weatherproof and vandalproof hidden cameras. Decoys must be installed as well. These cameras must have high image resolution capabilities, day and night function, and motion-detecting sensors. If possible, integrate them with security floodlights and door and window alarms.

Telephone conversations must also be placed under surveillance. Consider installing a phone line alarm as well. This will give you a means to contact the outside world even if your main phone lines have been cut off deliberately or accidentally.

By implementing these suggestions, you can be sure that your warehouse security will be virtually impenetrable.

Microwave motion alarms and how they work
This type of alarm uses microwave energy to detect movement and trigger a signal, usually an audible alarm. The device emits microwaves within a given area, which then bounce off any obstacle that may be present and return to the source. The frequency of these returning waves is then measured and analyzed. If someone or something enters that area, it will cause a disturbance in the flow of microwaves and change the frequency. Once the sensor detects this, a signal will be transmitted to a remote device and the alarm will be set off.

Microwaves are advantageous in that they work better at covering a larger area. Microwave energy can also pass through obstacles, so this type of alarm can be comfortably placed behind walls, for example, and still work. The only drawback is that microwave motion alarms are quite sensitive and will react to electrical gadgets such as radios, wireless phones, etc.

Another issue about the sensitivity of microwave motion alarms is that they tend to react at the slightest disturbance, which can often lead to false alarms. Their sensitivity level can be adjusted, however, so they can fit the environment where they are installed.

Infrared motion alarms and how they work
This type of alarm was developed in the 80s and has since become the most popular technology used for security systems. An infrared-powered security device uses light energy that is in the frequency beyond the limit of visible light, which is red – hence the name ‘infrared’. The wavelength of infrared light is longer than lightwaves and shorter than radio waves, making it ideal for use in detecting heat.

In order for it to work as a type of alarm, an infrared device uses a sensor that detects and measures the temperature of an object that passes through the beam of light coming from the device. If it measures sufficient heat, such as that coming from a human body, the sensor will trigger an alarm.

Infrared motion alarms are cost-effective, making them a top choice as security devices. They cannot provide coverage for a full area but if installed in the right location, they can be very helpful for catching intruders in the act.