blue ridge log cabins

blue ridge log cabins
BOCA RATON, Fla. - (Business Wire) Blue Ridge Log Cabins, a custom manufactured log home builder, has installed an ADT Security Services video surveillance system to monitor safety and security at its sales center and two manufacturing facilities. The system was originally installed to help protect expensive building materials and quickly became a management tool to improve efficiency, safety and customer service.
The digital video surveillance system was installed at the company’s sales center and manufacturing facilities in Campobello, S.C., outside of Greenville/Spartanburg. The installation included cameras at a new 110,000-square-foot production facility where craftsmen construct and assemble sections of each log home.
Ninety to 100 percent of every home is completed at the factory, which allows Blue Ridge Log Cabins to ensure a uniform product with a guaranteed price. According to the company, all homes are equal to and often better in quality and value than site-built homes. Models range from 900 to 5,000 square feet.
Chip Smith, president, Blue Ridge Log Cabins, said his plant managers are able to remotely monitor equipment, materials and high quality appliances stored on-site via the Internet. The ADT system also lets Blue Ridge Cabins do more than monitor for security purposes.
“We were looking primarily for a security camera system; the ADT system provides that security surveillance and also helps us monitor traffic in our sales facility, in addition to alerting us to customers arriving on site,” Smith said. “It has made our overall operation much more efficient.”
Smith also said that the camera system helped him improve the Blue Ridge Log Cabins safety program by recording and replaying video of incidents that occurred on company property. Video from the system has also given management a valuable tool for helping train employees.
“Many companies find that once you have the security infrastructure in place, the system can be used not only for security purposes, but for everyday operations as well,” said Jeffrey Bean, vice president, ADT Retail Sales and Operations. “The system installed at Blue Ridge Log Cabins allows the company to get added value from its security investment.”
“The system has become a very useful tool for us,” said Smith. “We rely on it to help ensure a safe environment for our employees and customers and to help us produce a quality product more efficiently.”
About ADT Security Services:
ADT Security Services is a unit of Tyco International and part of ADT Worldwide, the world’s largest electronic security provider. In North America, ADT provides electronic security services to nearly five million commercial, government and residential customers. ADT's total security solutions include intrusion, fire protection, video systems, access control, critical condition monitoring, home health services, electronic article surveillance, radio frequency identification (RFID) and integrated systems. ADT’s government and commercial customers include a majority of the nation’s Fortune 500 companies, all U.S. federal courthouses and over 70 mid to large airports. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, ADT has more than 24,000 employees at approximately 240 locations in the U.S. and Canada.