Surveillance & Security

Improving surveillance and security is the No. 1 investment that businesses can make to deter theft and crime at their location. Fortunately, Texas Surveillance & Security has a wide range of solutions to help improve your security.

Theft and Loss Statistics from the Survey

• 43.9% of retail shrinkage was due to employee theft.
• 35.7% of retail theft was due to shoplifting.
• 96% of all retailers have been victim to retail theft in the last year.

According to a National Retail Security Survey, conducted by the University of Florida and the National Retail Federation, inventory theft cost U.S. retailers $34.5 billion dollars in 2011 alone. With a staggering 96 percent of retailers suffering some sort of theft, including more than 43 percent of those thefts due to employee theft and more than a third from shoplifting activity, the need for regular and active monitoring is clear.

Similar security studies have shown that installing a surveillance and security system can help deter retail shrinkage, theft and vandalism by as much as 80 percent, saving retailers and commercial operations thousands of dollars annually.

“Overall, the cameras — when actively monitored — were effective at cutting down crime. And the savings and benefits of fewer crimes outweighed the cost of the surveillance system,” said Nancy La Vigne, the director of the Urban Institute, which conducted a 2011 survey showing a 20 percent reduction in crime in a Chicago neighborhood after adding surveillance equipment.

Reliable, dependable and high-quality security solutions are our profession. Our two decades expertise as a surveillance and security company gives you the extra assurance that our professionals have the know-how and experience to ensure the security of your operation.

For more information on the full array of our services or questions about what we can do for you, give us a call at
281-326-0790 today.

What separates commercial equipment from what you can buy online

The gap is not marketing. Consumer cameras are built to a price for a mild indoor climate and a homeowner who will replace them in a few years. Commercial hardware is built for continuous duty, wider temperature and humidity ranges, and sealed against the elements at the joints where cheap units fail first. On the Texas Gulf Coast that difference is measured in years of service life.

Sustained heat, high humidity, and salt air across the bay and coastal areas attack housings, cable glands and connectors relentlessly. Storm season adds wind loading that residential mounts were never engineered for. We routinely replace consumer-grade equipment that failed within two or three seasons, usually discovered at the exact moment someone needed the footage.

The other difference is the recorder. Consumer systems tie you to a manufacturer's cloud account, often with a subscription and a storage cap, and frequently with no clean way to export a clip that a police department or an insurer will accept. Commercial recorders keep the footage on your premises, under your control, exportable in standard formats, with retention you set rather than rent.

None of this means the most expensive option is automatically right. It means the cheapest option is frequently not cheap at all once you count the replacement, the lost coverage, and the incident it failed to capture.

Why Houston businesses choose Texas Surveillance

We have been a family-operated Texas company since 1993 — 33 years, Texas license B04080401. Over that time we have designed, installed and maintained commercial and industrial surveillance systems for the Houston Rockets, NRG Stadium, the George R. Brown Convention Center, the Houston Police Department, several municipal governments and fire departments, and many hundreds of warehouses, plants, dealerships, restaurants and storefronts across the region.

Two things set a commercial install apart from what you can buy in a box. The first is specification: cameras chosen and positioned against your actual sightlines, lighting and risk, rather than a package applied uniformly to every building. The second is service. Security contractors in this market appear and vanish constantly, and a system with nobody behind it becomes a liability the moment it fails. A large share of our work is maintaining and expanding systems we installed years — in some cases decades — ago.

What every system includes

Commercial-grade, weather-sealed hardware specified for Gulf Coast heat, humidity and storm season. Secure remote viewing from phone, tablet or desktop. Storage sized to the retention your risk actually requires rather than the minimum the recorder ships with. Full handover training so your people can find and export footage without calling us. And a free on-site survey before any of it — because a quote produced without walking the property is a guess.

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