My name is Mason Friday. I'm a security systems administrator for William Warren Group. We do business as Storkwest self storage. My day to day is just pretty much handling our security cameras and access control, whether it be installation, maintaining current ones, or whether it be helping managers look through footage, or if it falls under security cameras or access control, it's something that's in my duties. The biggest problem that we had was with self storage, there's like so many different people who built their own facilities that we acquire or we manage. So they've all installed their own camera systems and everything. So you wanna take those over. And the problem was having to learn, you know, six, seven, eight different systems that could be at any different sites that you can help a manager because we didn't have that remote access like we do now. For a long time it was like calling people up and having to try and walk them through a process over the phone or have them sending you pictures to get on like a a video call with them. Whereas now you can just do it yourself or you know show them like like actually show them something instead of describing it. If there was an incident on a site, you had to be physically there to look through the footage. And now being able to, like, delegate off and say, hey, this manager doesn't have time to look at it because they're a busy site. Well, now the district manager can look at it or I can look at it or Martin can look at it. Somebody else can go comb through the footage themselves without needing to bother the manager on-site. AI agents, I was excited about that last year. I'm excited it this year. Especially that overnight monitoring one. So the sites that have the biggest problem, they're like analog cameras that have so much noise that there are some sites that like we've had to turn off cameras because they were triggering hundreds of times in a night. So being able to set up an agent maybe that could take a look at stuff and delegate off to our alarm monitoring based on what they see instead of actual just motion triggers. So it'll lessen their workload and make it easier for them to to manage what's coming in.
“If there was an incident on a site, you had to be physically there to look through the footage.”
~ Mason Friday, Security Systems Administrator, William Warren Group
“Now, the district manager can look at it, or I can look at it. Somebody else can comb through the footage without needing to bother the manager on-site.”
~ Mason Friday, Security Systems Administrator, William Warren Group
“It’ll lessen their workload and make it easier for them to manage what’s coming in.”
~ Mason Friday, Security Systems Administrator, William Warren Group