MARKET COMPARISON

So you're thinking about a guard tour monitoring system for your business to monitor guard patrols and maintain trusted accountability.  What you are probably thinking is that, "There are so many guard tour systems to chose from, how do I know which one to pick?"

Searching the web, you can find over 25 different security guard tracking, security guard tour, security guard patrol, or security guard monitoring systems. Some offer different collection devices (iButtons, RIFD, barcodes, others); some are more heavily advertised; some are international; HOWEVER, at the end of the day they all collect the same information and do it pretty well.

• The first question is usually price, and there is a fairly wide range. There are some guard tour systems for less than a $1000, but most are higher (around $1500 to $2000, and some of the more heavily advertised guard tour systems are over $3000.

• The second question is the ease and timeliness to review the collected guard tour information. Here there is also a wide range of options; however, most guard tour systems are only available on pre-licensed computers (of course these reports can be printed, copied and distributed with logs, etc.)

• The third question concerns, “How easy is the guard monitoring system to set-up, maintain, and download the collected information?”

• Finally customers are concerned with reliability and responsiveness of a guard monitoring system. For reliability, perhaps the best gauge is the warranty and likelihood it will be honored. Again there are wide variances among the 25 plus guard monitoring systems. In some cases they are foreign suppliers and other guard monitoring systems are sold through distributers that merely throw those issues back to the provider wherever they might be.

• There are a variety of other factors, but these are the criteria that most customers evaluate when deciding on a guard tour system.

• Guard Tracker is a web based, online system that is constantly updated.  Reports are available on any computer, anytime, anywhere without additional licensing agreements.

• Of the 25 other guard monitoring systems out there, only 4 are web based or have the ability to provide online reports. Three of those four systems are not competitive with Guard Tracker.  The remaining system is two and a half times more expensive. Further, the online Guard Tracker is less expensive than 85% of the non-online systems even including the subscription fee, which is part of the initial startup package.

• Ease of Use. Most systems are much more complicated to use than explained in the advertising. Guard Tracker was designed from the outset to be easy to install, easy to download the data, and very easy to access the reports.

•  Reliability – Oversight Inc. offers a 30 day, no excuse money back guarantee. We also offer a one-year warranty on all hardware and software.

• Oversight is a US company with US employees who are readily available to offer advice and technical support.

• In addition to all of these features, Guard Tracker can easily create special reports, scale to as many locations as needed today and those you might need in the future.