A fire inspector asks when your smoke detectors were last sensitivity tested, and the binder can't answer. Here is what commercial fire alarm testing records a facility manager should keep under NFPA 72 (2022), what to request from a previous vendor, and why outdated records are often the first sign the fire alarm system itself needs an upgrade. GenX Security Solutions serves commercial buildings across SC, NC, and GA.

This post walks through what security camera failure actually looks like and what a properly engineered surveillance system does differently. When a commercial security camera fails, the biggest risk is not always a black screen. It may still appear online while video is frozen, degraded, obstructed, or no longer being written to storage. A camera that fails at 11:00 PM Friday and is not discovered until 8:00 AM Monday creates a 57-hour evidence gap.

Nearly every week, a sales engineer at GenX Security Solutions gets on a first call with a with someone needing door access control who opens with some version of the same sentence: "I've been told access control runs about $1,500 to $2,500 a door." We hear it from an operations manager at a Charleston distribution center, a general manager at a Columbia medical office, the general manager of a hotel property in Myrtle Beach adding fobs to a recreational building, and a facil