Industry · Cannabis
Security written to your state's license, to the letter.
Tec-Tel designs, installs, and runs license-compliant cameras, vault access, and limited-access tracking for state-licensed cannabis dispensaries and cultivation. Built to your state's exact rule, down to the camera angle.
- NDAA-compliant
- Platform-agnostic
- 1,000+ deployments over 15 years
§01 What we install at dispensaries
Coverage built to pass a state license inspection.
What a dispensary gets once Tec-Tel commissions the system, and what your compliance officer, GM, and state inspector see from day one.
§ How we work
Every state has a different camera rule. We pull the regulation for your state, design coverage to it, and document the coverage map, so a license inspection finds the evidence it expects on the security side.
How Tec-Tel works in regulated retail
§02 How a Tec-Tel deployment works
Five steps, one accountable team.
Walk every location before we quote
No quote-by-floorplan. We come on site, talk to your compliance officer, and pull your state's exact camera regulation.
Design to the state license
Every state regulates camera resolution, frame rate, retention, and coverage zones differently. We design the install package to your specific state license before submitting it.
Standardize across locations
One camera platform. One access platform. Multi-location operators get one VMS and one compliance-documentation format.
Commission for the inspection
The state inspector will check coverage zones, retention, and the limited-access areas. We commission and document specifically for that walk-through.
Hand off with a compliance packet
Your team gets a written ops doc plus a state-license-ready documentation package. Coverage map, retention proof, access-control evidence.
§03 How we deploy
Three facility types. Three tailored builds.
A retail dispensary, a cultivation and processing site, and a multi-location operator each carry a different version of the state rule. Here's how the three break down.
State-licensed retail dispensary, single location
- → License-compliant coverage of every limited-access area + POS
- → Vault + limited-access badge tracking
- → Cash-room + register coverage, two-person safe rule
- → State-mandated retention (typically 90 days)
Licensed grow or processing facility
- → Coverage of cure rooms, trim, extraction, and vault
- → Seed-to-sale-aligned product-movement documentation
- → Limited-access-area badge control
- → Wash-down / humidity-rated hardware where needed
Multi-state or multi-location cannabis operator
- → Per-state install spec satisfying each state's rule
- → Central VMS with role-based per-location access
- → Unified compliance-documentation format
- → Single 24/7 monitoring contract
§04 Compliance buyers ask us about
Frameworks we build to.
Every state writes specific camera rules: resolution, frame rate, retention, and coverage of limited-access areas + POS. We design to your state's exact regulation.
Metrc, BioTrack, and similar state-mandated tracking. Camera coverage that documents product movement to corroborate the seed-to-sale record.
Cannabis is largely cash. Camera coverage of cash rooms and deposit workflow supports your cash-management policy and any banking-partner requirement.
State adult-use and medical age rules. Coverage of the ID-check point creates a clean record for a compliance inspection.
Questions buyers ask us
FAQ
- How much does dispensary security cost?
- It depends on your square footage, the number of limited-access zones, and your state's exact camera rule. Cultivation and processing facilities run higher than retail because of size and the number of limited-access areas. Multi-location operators amortize the cost per site. We pull your state regulation and walk the location before we quote.
- Will the install satisfy our state license?
- Yes. Every state writes specific camera rules: minimum resolution, frame rate, retention period, and coverage of every limited-access area and POS. We pull your state's exact regulation, design the install package to satisfy it, and document the coverage map for your license file.
- How long do we have to retain footage?
- Most state cannabis regulations set a 90-day minimum, though several states require longer. We configure retention to your specific state requirement and design storage so the footage stays intact and exportable for the entire window.
- Does it support our seed-to-sale system?
- Camera coverage documents product movement from delivery to vault to floor to POS, corroborating your Metrc or BioTrack seed-to-sale record. We do not integrate into the state tracking system itself; we provide the visual record that supports it during an audit.
- How does a multi-location rollout work?
- A multi-location operator is sequenced per state, since each state license has its own camera rules. We standardize the documentation format across states even where the hardware spec differs, so every site lands a compliant package on the same template.
Book a free assessment
Tell us about your locations.
Get on a call with the Tec-Tel team. We'll walk through what your state license requires, what the inspector checks, and what a defensible per-location budget looks like.
- Tell us how many sites you run and what's already in place. We'll show you what a build or upgrade looks like.
- Straight answers from the team that does the work. We're platform-agnostic, so you get the system that fits your sites, not one brand's catalog.
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