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Understanding Turnstile ROI in Today’s Security Landscape Blog

Understanding Turnstile ROI in Today’s Security Landscape

In today's security-conscious environment, organizations of all sizes are evaluating their access control investments with…

Shana McCoyApril 23, 2025

Access Control vs. Entrance Control: A Physical Security Guide Blog

Access Control vs. Entrance Control: A Physical Security Guide

When it comes to protecting an organization’s business, access control and entrance control are two…

Shana McCoyJanuary 7, 2025

How Door Detective® Could Have Saved Christmas Blog

How Door Detective® Could Have Saved Christmas

Spoiler Alert! If you haven’t seen the movie “Red One” yet, you might want to hit…

Shana McCoyDecember 23, 2024

Entrance Control Systems: 7 Ways to Amplify Your Brand Values Blog

Entrance Control Systems: 7 Ways to Amplify Your Brand Values

When visitors step into your building, they are not just entering a physical space; they…

Shana McCoyNovember 15, 2024

5 Ways Fastlane Turnstiles Improve Campus Safety Blog

5 Ways Fastlane Turnstiles Improve Campus Safety

Campus safety is a top priority for educational institutions, as well as for the families…

Shana McCoyOctober 9, 2024

Facial Authentication Meets Physical Security: Alcatraz AI and Smarter Security Collaboration Blog

Facial Authentication Meets Physical Security: Alcatraz AI and Smarter Security Collaboration

Smarter Security and Alcatraz AI have joined forces to bring forward the latest innovations in…

Shana McCoySeptember 19, 2024

How Security Increases Business Continuity Blog

How Security Increases Business Continuity

Security is more than just locking doors and setting off alarms. Security plays a significant…

Shana McCoyJuly 24, 2024

Securing Healthcare Facilities with Turnstiles Blog

Securing Healthcare Facilities with Turnstiles

The safety and security of healthcare facilities are of significant importance due to the unpredictable…

Shana McCoyMay 30, 2024

Top 10 Reasons Data Centers Need Anti-Tailgate Protection Blog

Top 10 Reasons Data Centers Need Anti-Tailgate Protection

Data Centers have the important responsibility to secure vast amounts of sensitive data. With the…

Shana McCoyApril 3, 2024

Our Biggest ISC West Showcase Blog

Our Biggest ISC West Showcase

Smarter Security is thrilled to present our BIGGEST showcase yet at the upcoming ISC West…

Shana McCoyMarch 21, 2024

What is a Turnstile? Blog

What is a Turnstile?

Turnstiles are a type of security gate that allows a person with proper credentials to…

Shana McCoyFebruary 28, 2024

The Importance of Physical Security Blog

The Importance of Physical Security

In our rapidly changing world, security threats have become a common challenge. It's crucial to…

Shana McCoyJanuary 4, 2024

Clayton Allison joins Smarter Security Blog

Clayton Allison joins Smarter Security

After a highly vetted search for the next Smarter Security representative, our team has welcomed…

Shana McCoyNovember 7, 2023

Tailgating vs. Piggybacking: Keeping Unwanted Guests Out Blog

Tailgating vs. Piggybacking: Keeping Unwanted Guests Out

With any security strategy, it is essential to implement physical barriers and access points, ensuring…

Shana McCoyOctober 25, 2023

Experience GSX with Cody St. John Blog

Experience GSX with Cody St. John

Cody St. John, Regional Sales Manager Smarter Security is eagerly awaiting the GSX experience next…

Shana McCoySeptember 7, 2023

Maximizing Lobby Security with Turnstiles and Speedgates Blog

Maximizing Lobby Security with Turnstiles and Speedgates

Times are ever-changing, but one thing always remains the same: the priority to ensure the…

Shana McCoyAugust 22, 2023

Turnstiles that Return on Investment Blog

Turnstiles that Return on Investment

Beyond keeping tenants honest, turnstiles yield a significant return on investment (ROI) for the organizations…

Shana McCoyJuly 27, 2023

Ensuring Ease of Use with Turnstiles Blog

Ensuring Ease of Use with Turnstiles

When selecting turnstiles for your facility, one of the key considerations is the ease of…

Shana McCoyJune 20, 2023

Smarter Security takes ISC West – The Recap Blog

Smarter Security takes ISC West – The Recap

Smarter Security packed its bags (and turnstiles) to Las Vegas, Nevada for ISC West 2023!…

Shana McCoyApril 13, 2023

Smashing Our Way into 2023! BlogCompany News

Smashing Our Way into 2023!

After another incredible year at Smarter Security, we look forward to elevating industry standards in…

Shana McCoyJanuary 17, 2023

5 Ways Our Products Provide True Accessibility BlogBuilding SecurityEntrance ControlTurnstiles

5 Ways Our Products Provide True Accessibility

Whether running a safety checkpoint in a courthouse or ensuring only the right staff have…

Shana McCoyNovember 8, 2022

Gearing Up For GSX With Dan Gardner BlogBuilding SecurityEntrance ControlTurnstiles

Gearing Up For GSX With Dan Gardner

Each show is unique, because each region is unique. To prepare for GSX, we sat…

Shana McCoySeptember 8, 2022

6 Places to Enhance Security for Interior Doorways BlogBuilding SecurityEntrance ControlTurnstiles

6 Places to Enhance Security for Interior Doorways

Your doors aren't secure as you think- how often have you found an unlocked, propped…

Shana McCoyAugust 19, 2022

How Much Does a Turnstile Cost? BlogBuilding SecurityEntrance ControlTurnstiles

How Much Does a Turnstile Cost?

While money isn’t king, we all check price tags. We compare the quality to cost,…

Shana McCoyJuly 1, 2022

What Happens if You Jump a Turnstile? BlogBuilding SecurityEntrance ControlTurnstiles

What Happens if You Jump a Turnstile?

Why Would Someone Jump a Turnstile? When searching 'turnstile,' one of the top image results…

Shana McCoyJune 9, 2022

Fastlane: The Swiss Army Knife of Turnstiles BlogBuilding SecurityEntrance ControlTurnstiles

Fastlane: The Swiss Army Knife of Turnstiles

Fastlane: The Swiss Army Knife of Turnstiles One-size-fits-all is fine when the cloth is cut…

Amber BeckwithApril 28, 2022

Be Smart and Check Out Smarter Security at ISC West BlogBuilding SecurityEntrance ControlTurnstiles

Be Smart and Check Out Smarter Security at ISC West

ISC West is Quickly Approaching March is here which means ISC West, the largest security…

Shana McCoyMarch 15, 2022

Why Turnstiles? BlogBuilding SecurityEntrance ControlTurnstiles

Why Turnstiles?

Turnstiles continue to serve as an industry-standard in an effective entrance control strategy. They can…

Hope GilsonFebruary 25, 2022

Smarter Security’s Christmas Wishlist BlogBuilding SecurityEntrance Control

Smarter Security’s Christmas Wishlist

Each year, Christmas seems to begin earlier than the year previous to it. For some,…

Shana McCoyDecember 23, 2021

Welcome Back to ISC East BlogBuilding SecurityEntrance ControlTurnstiles

Welcome Back to ISC East

We can’t wait to be back at ISC East in New York, New York! We…

Shana McCoyNovember 9, 2021