Industry · Real estate
Security your leasing team can put in the pitch.
Tec-Tel designs, installs, and runs the cameras, access control, and analytics that make a CRE portfolio easy to run. Tenant-aware and wired to your property-management software, with occupancy reporting your hybrid-work and ESG teams can actually use.
- 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 in CRE
The system an asset manager relies on.
Once a building is commissioned, a tenant move-in provisions itself. Here's what your asset manager, engineering chief, and leasing team work with from day one.
§ How we work
A portfolio on five different access platforms is five separate operational burdens. We standardize to one credential format and bridge it to your property-management software, so a tenant move-in provisions access automatically instead of through a side spreadsheet.
How Tec-Tel works in commercial real estate
§02 How a Tec-Tel deployment works
Five steps, one accountable team.
Walk every building before we quote
No quote-by-floorplan. We come on site, talk to your asset manager and engineering chief, and document common-area + tenant-suite boundaries.
Standardize across the portfolio
One or two camera platforms. One access platform. Twenty buildings get one credential format and one VMS, not twenty.
Integrate with the PM software early
Most modern CRE platforms expose APIs that can bridge to access control. We scope the integration to your specific software before any analytics deployment.
Tune analytics for CRE contexts
CRE traffic patterns (post-COVID hybrid) differ by building. We calibrate on site until the false-positive rate is low enough to trust.
Hand off with a runbook + tenant comms
Engineering chief gets a written ops doc. Tenant-facing FAQ ready for distribution. Coverage of common areas documented, no-coverage zones in tenant suites called out.
§03 What a Tec-Tel install looks like
Three building shapes. Three different stacks.
A Class-A tower, a flex-logistics box, and a mixed-use building each need a different stack. Here are the three shapes we deploy most, and what each runs.
Premium downtown office, multi-tenant, 250K+ sq ft
- → Tenant-aware turnstiles + elevator destination dispatch
- → Common-area + amenity coverage
- → Garage LPR + visitor-management lobby
- → PM software bridge to lease lifecycle
Single-tenant or small-bay industrial, last-mile logistics
- → Dock-door + truck-yard LPR
- → Loading-area + secure-storage coverage
- → After-hours intrusion + theft detection
- → 24/7 monitoring with verified response
Office + retail or office + residential, separate tenancies
- → Separate access tenancy for retail, office, residential
- → Ground-floor retail PCI-DSS Req 9 coverage
- → Shared amenity (rooftop, gym) credentialing
- → Lobby + perimeter + garage unified
§04 Compliance buyers ask us about
Frameworks we build to.
If your buildings have ground-floor retail processing card data, the CDE camera + access requirements apply. We design to that bar where retail tenancy is in scope.
Multi-tenant occupancy counts, building-utilization analytics feed your sustainability and GRESB reporting. Same camera infrastructure, different downstream system.
For mixed-use with residential tenancy: camera coverage in shared spaces designed not to disparately impact protected classes. Coverage rules consistent.
Camera coverage of egress paths, stairwells, fire-control rooms aligned to local fire-marshal standards.
Questions buyers ask us
FAQ
- How much does CRE security cost per building?
- Cost depends on square footage, camera count, access points, elevator and turnstile scope, and how much base-building cabling already exists. A Class-A trophy tower and a single-tenant flex building sit far apart. We scope the building against your portfolio on the consultation and come back with a defensible per-building budget. That scope is the free consultation.
- Does it integrate with our property management software?
- Where your platform supports it. Most modern CRE property-management platforms expose APIs that can bridge to access control, which we scope to your specific software. Lease lifecycle can drive credential lifecycle: tenant moves in, credentials provision; lease ends, credentials deactivate. No side spreadsheet.
- Can we cover hybrid-work occupancy reporting?
- Yes. Non-identifying occupancy counts and zone utilization feed your hybrid-work and ESG reporting. Same camera infrastructure, different downstream system. We default to non-biometric counts; face-recognition stays off unless your specific use case requires it and your state law allows it.
- How fast can we roll out across a portfolio?
- A single building moves quickly. A multi-building portfolio runs in sequenced phases around tenant-improvement schedules and base-building work, so move-ins stay uninterrupted. The timeline tracks your TI calendar more than ours. We size it against your portfolio in the free consultation.
- Does this cover ground-floor retail tenant requirements?
- Yes if your lease includes retail tenants processing card data. PCI-DSS Req 9 covers physical access to the cardholder data environment. We design CDE camera and access alongside the tenant's POS install. Most leases have language about this; we work with your leasing team.
Talk through your site
Get a plan built around your portfolio.
Book a free consultation. The Tec-Tel team walks your portfolio with you and comes back with what your PM software supports, what hybrid-work reporting needs, and a defensible per-building budget.
- 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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