Industry · Manufacturing
One security partner for every plant you run.
Tec-Tel designs, installs, and tunes camera, access, AI analytics, and monitoring for manufacturing sites. Use the cameras you already own where they make sense; standardize the rest across every plant.
- NDAA-compliant
- Platform-agnostic
- 1,000+ deployments over 15 years
How can we help?
Tell us what you're working through. We'll route it to the right person.
§01 What we install on the floor
The system a facility manager relies on.
Once a site is commissioned, the vendor argument is over. Here's what your supervisors, EHS leads, and IT team work with from day one.
§ How we work
When you're running several sites on three different camera systems, we pick one standard, run the cabling, and train both the EHS team and IT. One stack, one runbook, one support line, instead of a vendor argument every time something breaks.
How Tec-Tel works in manufacturing
§02 How a Tec-Tel deployment works
Five steps, one accountable team.
Walk every site before we quote
No quote-by-floorplan. We come on site, talk to your maintenance and EHS leads, and document what's actually there.
Standardize across sites
One or two camera platforms. One access platform. Vendor proliferation is what kills support across a multi-site footprint.
Size the network first
PoE budget is the real constraint on most upgrades, not camera count. We touch the switches, cabling, and IDF before we touch a camera.
Stand up the AI carefully
Computer-vision alerts work. They also create alert fatigue if you tune them wrong. We start narrow (PPE, restricted-zone), tune on site, then expand carefully.
Hand off with a runbook
Your team gets a written ops doc. Escalation tree, retention rules, who calls Tec-Tel for what. We stay on retainer for service.
§03 What a Tec-Tel install looks like
Three site shapes. Three different stacks.
An auto-parts plant, a cold-chain food line, and a heavy-industrial yard each push the cameras somewhere different: hot-work zones, sanitation washdown, or the truck gate. Here's how the three break down.
Multi-shift assembly, restricted zones, OEM customer audits
- → PPE detection on hot work + chemical zones
- → LPR at the truck yard, gate logic + driver dwell time
- → Tailgating alerts on the production floor entries
- → Footage retention windows that survive a Tier-1 audit
FSMA traceability, sanitation cycles, allergen zones
- → Cameras in wash-down rated housings, IP66 minimum
- → Sanitation-cycle review evidence, time-stamped
- → Restricted-zone alerts (allergen control) tied to access
- → Dwell + glove-removal heuristics tuned per zone
NDAA 889, controlled-area access, third-party audits
- → NDAA-clean cameras only
- → Two-factor access on controlled rooms (badge + PIN)
- → Camera + access logs exportable to your auditor in a click
- → No banned brands on any switch in the IDF
§04 Compliance buyers ask us about
Frameworks we build to.
PPE, near-miss, ergonomic-risk evidence. Quarterly reviewable footage your insurer can read.
No Hikvision / Dahua / Hytera if you sell to the federal government. Or to anyone who does.
Food safety zones, sanitation cycles, traceability windows. The stuff your auditor actually pulls.
Camera + access logs that survive a third-party audit. Encrypted at rest, retention enforced.
Questions buyers ask us
FAQ
- How much does a multi-site manufacturing surveillance install cost?
- It depends on the network. Cameras are the cheap part. Most sites need switch upgrades and PoE budget work first. We'll give you a defensible per-site number after the free consultation.
- Can you work with the cameras we already have?
- Usually yes. If you're on a major manufacturer's IP cameras or anything ONVIF-compliant, we can pull those into a modern video management system. If you're on prosumer or NDAA-flagged hardware, we'll tell you what's reusable and what isn't, without trying to rip and replace everything.
- Do you deploy to all our sites, or just one region?
- All of them. Tec-Tel runs nationwide install crews: our own people plus vetted regional partners covering the rest of the US, all supervised under Tec-Tel project management to one standard. One project manager, one runbook, one bill. Coast-to-coast service.
- How fast is a typical rollout?
- We sequence a rollout around your production calendar instead of doing it all at once. We standardize on the first site, prove the design, then replicate across the rest on a phased schedule we set with you. Cabling and switch work usually drives the timeline more than camera count.
- Do you also do the 24/7 monitoring?
- We can. We partner with national monitoring centers and stand up the integration. Or if you have an internal SOC, we'll wire the alerts into your ticketing system, whichever you prefer.
Talk through your site
Get a plan built around your sites.
Book a free consultation with the Tec-Tel team. We'll tell you what's reusable, what's not, and what a defensible 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.
Since 2010 · 1,000+ deployments nationwide · ISN-accredited
How can we help?
What you're looking for, plus any details. We review it and follow up, usually the same day.
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