TRL Systems Celebrates Four Decades of Success

Since its beginnings, TRL’s leaders were determined to work with a “do the right thing” ethic. That intention, which is as alive today as it was in 1981, has fueled by our tremendous culture of teamwork and collaboration. And it’s placed TRL in a unique position of maintaining several customer relationships for 20+, 30+ and even 40 years.

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Establishing a Preventative Maintenance Plan for Fire Life Safety and Security Systems

Fire, life safety, and security systems are critical for the safety and protection of not only your property, but the individuals who live, work, or patronize those establishments. We rely on these systems every day. To ensure they are operating at peak performance (and avoid a potentially dangerous system outage during a crisis), preventive maintenance plans must be established and followed. Let’s take a closer look at the value of preventive maintenance and what you need to do now to protect your business, your property, your employees, and your customers in 2021 and beyond.

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How Integrated Alert Platforms Improve Long-Term Clinical Care

We are reaching a critical need for an integrated solution that will connect the myriad alarm and security systems found in clinical facilities. In long-term care facilities, these alarms and notifications are critical to the proper care of the residents. The solution? An integrated system that can handle the needs of skilled nursing and facility security and safety. What features should be included in this system and how can it benefit your facility? Let’s take a look.

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Using Integrated Big Data to Prevent Alarm Fatigue

For nearly a decade, alarm fatigue has been at the forefront of healthcare leaders minds, with a regular appearance as a CMS National Patient Safety Goal since 2013. Fortunately, there is a solution. By leveraging big data and integrated technologies, healthcare facilities can finally realize a reduction in alarms, without sacrificing patient care or experience.

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Facial Recognition and Video Analysis for Business Security

Facial recognition and video analysis are no longer reserved for government agencies and movies; they have officially gone mainstream. Businesses are leveraging this technology to fight fraud, prevent terrorism, and protect individuals working or visiting businesses, healthcare facilities, or other locations. Let’s take a closer look at how these tools are being used and what we can expect in the future.

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TRL Systems Announces a New Partnership with Leader in AI-Enabled Video Analytics

TRL Systems, Inc. is excited to announce its partnership with Verkada, the leader in AI-enabled, cloud-based physical security. Verkada is the first enterprise physical security company to provide real-time visibility into buildings by seamlessly combining video footage with access-based events in a simple, cloud-managed platform.

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Combat Nursing Shortages with Modern Nurse Call Technology

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) reports that 11 million additional nurses will be needed to fulfill coverage gaps through 2030. Left unaddressed, this could negatively impact patient satisfaction, healthcare outcomes, and lead to increased medical errors. But the latest nurse call technology can help extend the reach of our existing nursing teams. Here’s how the adoption of this technology can help with the looming nurse shortage.

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COVID-19 Prevention: Contact Tracing with Real-Time Location Services for Hospital Providers

New technologies can help healthcare providers and public health officials win the race against the spread of virulent diseases by using real-time location services (RTLS), computer automation, and big data for successful contact tracing and virus mitigation. This article will shed light on modern RTLS contact tracing platforms with COVID-19 as a use case.

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TRL Systems Delivers for a Major University

On short notice, TRL Systems was chosen by a major university for huge job in size and scope—all within a short timeline with no room for error. The university needed outdated fire alarm equipment demolished and new equipment installed in dorms, apartments and towers—several were occupied. TRL had just two weeks to form a crew of nearly 20 guys and it had to make choices based on two major
concerns.

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Derek Purdy
Healthcare Project Highlight: Fire Alarm Life Safety System Replacement

TRL Systems was selected by St. Bernardine Medical Center, owned by Dignity Health, to replace their existing Simplex Fire Alarm System with a new state of the art EST-3 Fire Alarm System. The EST system
is fully addressable and will continually perform self-tests and generate sensitivity reports directly at the panel. Installation of the new EST Fire Alarm System will be side by side with the existing Simplex system to minimize the need for Fire Watch requirements. TRL will network all buildings together to form a complete system.


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Derek Purdy
Year-End Hospital Compare Reports: Improved Patient Satisfaction Means Improved Ratings

Hospital leadership teams may be re-evaluating priorities after receiving the 2016 Hospital Compare ratings released by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Whether that was good news or a needs-improvement assessment hinged in large part on the steps the hospital has been taking to improve it patients’ satisfaction and clinical performance...

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Security Project Highlight: SSA Terminal B63 / Port of Oakland

TRL Systems was chosen by SSA Marine to demolish the TWIC system at the SSA Howard Terminal and reinstall/expand the TWIC Access Control System and Closed Circuit Television. TRL Systems Engineering and Sales Teams assembled a CCTV, Network Video Recording and TWIC Access Control system based on thorough site inspections and bid specifications.

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