Services Provided by GFC
GFC is the perfect choice for your business Electrical Needs
The extensive list of services offered by GFC is growing constantly as we continue to educate ourselves and adapt to meet our customers’ needs. Our technicians are trained and experienced in a wide array of products – ranging from legacy systems from the 1970’s, to products just being released to market today. Installation, repair, maintenance, inspection, testing, cleaning, and monitoring – GFC is ready to provide whatever your system might require.
Fire alarm is GFC’ specialty. Combining an extensive range of products, with NICET-certified engineering know-how, GFC can custom-tailor a fire alarm system to meet your particular building and budget requirements, from a residential healthcare retrofit to a full-scale hotel/casino. Of course, after the installation, you need a service company you can depend on. GFC will be there, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for any fire alarm emergency.
Pop quiz. Fire alarm systems should be:
- Expensive and complicated.
- Confusing with constant problems.
- Require large amounts of space, money, and time.
- All of the above.
- Affordable, dependable, and easy to operate.
If you chose option e – congratulations. You must be an GFC customer with an Advanced or Mircom system. Otherwise, you wouldn’t know fire alarm could be this easy.
As a Las Vegas Fire Alarm contractor, GFC has experience in a wide array of unique challenges. From minimum 80dBA sound level requirements, to achieving the same with low-frequency sounds, reliable area smoke detection without false alarms, manual fire alarm systems for apartments and motels, to the tallest and largest of megastructures, GFC has done it – and done it right.
Fire alarms are more than just a collection of smoke detectors. Even though in the overall scope of a project the fire alarm system may represent a relatively minor financial investment, it should not be left until the final stages of construction to consider. Fire alarms are life safety – they save lives. It’s that simple. Sprinkler systems help extinguish fires after they have reached relatively large sizes – and after they have consumed a significant portion of your building. On the other hand, fire detection systems locate “hot spots” as they begin – which means your building staff personnel can extinguish a fire just as it starts with a minimum of risk and damage – before the fire department breaks the door down and gives the entire office a good watering! With proper design and implementation, a fire alarm system becomes part of your overall building protection strategy – your basic desire to prevent and limit damage to your building.
After your fire alarm has been installed, it will require maintenance for the life of the system. Improper maintenance can result in decreased system performance, as well as a decreased lifespan and correspondingly higher costs of ownership. By using a trained, experienced, and certified maintenance company, you maximize the benefits of your life-safety system while minimizing the impact on your business operations – and your pocketbook.
Advanced and Mircom systems installed by GFC offer features unmatched by any other product or company. Available in a wide range of sizes, GFC can tailor a system to meet your exact requirements.
Advanced and Mircom systems offer you one of the largest, easy-to-read displays available. Add to that a number of configurable light displays and function switches, and you’ve got a system that does exactly what you need – and doesn’t require an advanced electronic degree to operate. Utilizing some of the latest technology in fire signature detection, these systems will meet any building code requirement – as well as minimizing maintenance costs. It actually tells you which detectors are dirty and require cleaning.
There’s only one thing missing – the big price tag. But you’re not really going to miss that, are you?
Key Benefits
- Proper installation results in proper operation. Get it done right the first time!
- Regular maintenance extends the life of the system and reduces repair costs.
- Using qualified technicians helps prevent improper operation of the system.
Capabilities
Installation
With a full-time staff of trained installers, Global Fire Control stands ready to install your fire alarm system at your convenience. Our installation manager will coordinate with you on your required schedule and will work with government agencies to ensure you meet your required opening date.
Maintenance
Our trained inspectors will ensure the safe and proper operation of your life safety system. Due to the extensive training of our personnel, Global Fire Control can inspect ANY brand or make of fire alarm system. Detector testing, horn/strobe verification, and detector cleaning are key parts of fire alarm maintenance service. When Global Fire Control places a tag on your system certifying its reliability, there will be no doubt in your mind as to the safety of your building.
Service
Even the best systems require servicing. Our trained technicians will perform any required repairs in a clean and efficient manner, affecting your business and residents as little as possible. Because our technicians are highly trained and experienced, they can diagnose problems in less time than usual. This reduced service time translates to lower repair bills.
Some other companies just take some components off the shelf and install them in the most convenient locations and call that a security system. We have the expertise to analyze and locate your particular weak points, to provide you with the optimum level of protection your business or home requires. And since our products can expand from the simplest burglary deterrents to integrated nation-wide security networks, whatever your particular needs, GFC can meet them.
Are security systems supposed to:
- Give you a headache.
- Irritate your neighbors.
- Create panic and confusion in your office.
- Put you on a first-name basis with the local police.
- Deter potential robbers and alert you to possible intrusion.
I hope you chose option e – it means GFC has installed a Paradox security system and you haven’t had any false alarms. Or you haven’t actually had a system installed yet and so still have a refreshingly naive view of how security systems work.
The first step in preventing false alarms is proper product selection. GFC will not use a product unless it can add to our already glowing reputation. Rokonet has proven itself to GFC as a reliable platform to build a security system upon – from a simple front & back door system up to 128 separate zones!
Security systems act as a deterrent to property theft. To work properly, a system must protect all the points of entry for a thief – and ensure no burglar can reach your property without activating the alarm. This requires knowledge of not only the detection system’s capabilities, but some insight into the mind of your potential intruder. With a background of high-security installations – including government, banking, and military – GFC engineers can help you choose the right level of protection for you and your property. Even if the right protection means just upgrading your door locks.
Designing a security system is more than just placing a motion detector here and there or a magnetic switch on each door. It requires an understanding of the detection methods available, identifying possible points of entry or concern at your property, and relating the two to find the correct match. GFC has a wide array of technologies available, so whatever your vulnerabilities, we can protect them efficiently and effectively.
With a large friendly LCD keypad, or the optional color graphical display, the Rokonet ProSYS system is easy to operate. Their advanced technology ensures that any tampering with the system is instantly detected and reported. And the Rokonet ProSYS system offers a unique feature – end-user software for control and reporting from any computer you choose. And since the Rokonet ProSYS can also provide simple access-control functions, you’ll probably want to use that software.
Combining the Rokonet ProSYS with the most advanced sensors made, from simple door switches and motion detectors to more exotic devices, such as perimeter beams or even radar, GFC can provide you peace of mind that your property is protected by the most dependable security system available, and at a significantly lower price than any other, especially when you consider the savings in long-term costs.
Key Benefits
- Complete protection
- Educated placement of detectors for optimum performance
- Peace of mind
Access control is not the same as security. Security prevents theft – access control gives you control over your facility. Electronic systems solve a number of problems with simple hardware lock solutions, including key loss, unauthorized key copying, lock picking/jimmying, and (of course) limiting access during scheduled times.
Proper access control – especially when integrated with security – requires careful planning to ensure maximum benefits. Having designed and installed access control systems for large government and financial institutions, GFC engineers can bring an insight to your facility unmatched by any other company. Helping you to select the right entry technology (keypads, card readers, fingerprint, retina, voice, etc.) is only part of our job. Educating you on how to configure your system to reduce unauthorized access, increase building automation, and track personnel movement lets GFC maximize the benefits of your access control system.
Of course, while GFC can service and maintain nearly any make and model of access control system, we heartily recommend our flagship GCS System Galaxy product.
Key Benefits
- Overall facility control
- Eliminates hardware lock problems
- Integration with security system
First, you’ve limited entry to your facility with your access control system. Then you set up an alarm to alert you and the police in the event of a break-in. Now we add the missing element – “who dunnit?”
A picture is worth thousand words. In the tragic event anything ever happens at your property, a good CCTV system can be worth considerably more.
But what makes a good CCTV system? You just need a couple of cameras, a recorder, and a monitor, right?
Ensuring you have a picture that the police can use and that will be admissible in a court is not an accident. It takes proper design, product selection, installation, and (surprise) maintenance.
With a proper CCTV system, you can identify who, when, and what illegal action was performed. Getting a picture that police can use to identify criminals doesn’t happen by chance. It requires proper camera selection and placement. Ensuring that picture is recorded – and usable – also doesn’t happen by chance. With a visual recording of a burglary, insurance companies are far less likely to question damages. The right equipment, for the right purpose, installed correctly – that’s GFC.
GFC knows CCTV. Choosing the right lens, camera, and angle can be challenging – unless you know how. Ensuring the picture gets recorded is still another level.
Most recording today is done via videocassette or digitally. Videocassettes provide lower initial costs – but require careful, consistent, neverending maintenance – or the system will never produce a usable picture. Digital systems can solve most of the problems of VCR’s – if you use the right one.
Many digital systems available today take advantage of the low-cost multimedia capabilities of personal computers. Some digital systems are available today that are actually cheaper than some VCR’s! But there’s a problem…
Just how reliable is your own computer? Ever need to restart it? Ever lost any really important information?
Is that what you want to trust your critical pictures to?
GFC exclusively utilizes digital recorders with embedded operating systems. In other words – they’re not personal computers – they’re professional security products made by some of the most trusted names in the industry. These machines can record, view, playback, share over the Internet, and archive – simultaneously. When combined with a access control system, a digital recording solution from GFC provides you complete security – what happened, when, and who did it.
And you’ll never have to rewind a tape again.
Key Benefits
- Exact identification of criminals
- Workplace monitoring
- Ease of insurance recovery
Nearly all fire alarm and fire sprinkler systems benefit from remote station monitoring. It’s important to select a station that actually performs – instead of just being a monthly bill. GFC partner monitoring stations are selected for their performance first and foremost – the fact that we can also offer the best pricing available is just a bonus!
Fire Alarm Monitoring and Fire Sprinkler Monitoring
Monitoring of fire alarm systems isn’t an option – it’s a requirement! As such, property owners & managers generally make their decisions based on price. However, beyond price, there are in fact key performance questions that need to be asked. GFC answers these questions
- UL-Listed Central & Remote Stations
- Custom authority levels
- Selective notification of property representatives and authorities as required
Nearly all security systems benefit from remote station monitoring. It’s important to select a station that actually performs – instead of just being a monthly bill. GFC partner monitoring stations are selected for their performance first and foremost – the fact that we can also offer the best pricing available is just a bonus!
Security Monitoring
Detection systems are only part of a security system – responsive monitoring is necessary to ensure appropriate response and full deterence. But while many others might offer monitoring service only GFC pairs monitoring with the most responsive guard services available.
- Armed response
- Detailed reporting