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System Surveyor: Let’s Get Digital

System Surveyor is the collaborative system design platform of choice for physical security, IoT and smart buildings.

System Surveyor – It’s a Game-Changer

No more paper cuts or embarrassing site surveys/walks with your prospect….change the game with digital system design and customer engagement.

New Flex Cable Path & 25 New Elements

System Surveyor has enhanced the Cable Infrastructure functionality in its customer engagement and system design platform. Security professionals can now easily and quickly configure cable runs between planned devices on the digital software. The Cable Path tool estimates cable lengths for a bill of materials and provides details for installation and cable pulls.

System Surveyor New Features

System Surveyor has released three major enhancements to its mobile, graphical system design and customer engagement platform used by thousands of security professionals. New survey comments, accessories, and enhanced reporting features will help project teams better streamline the system design process as well as collaborate across geographic and organizational boundaries.

Streamline System Designs and Proposals with System Surveyor & PDK

Join ProdataKey president and COO, Jeff Perri, and director of Sales, Dallan Labrum, to discuss an exciting new integration: System Surveyor with PDK. Learn how to save time, present more professionally, and collaborate with your installation team, all while automating the process of site surveys.

What Customers Are Saying

The System Design Tool Everyone’s Talking About: Hear what customers are saying about the favorite system design solution in the industry.

Pdk & System Surveyor: Better Together.

System Surveyor & Prodatakey have partnered to help you win more business. Visually engage with customers by dragging-and-dropping devices on a digital floor plan for site surveys and design management.

2018 Austin A-List Hottest Startup Winner

Chris Hugman shares his excitement about be recognized as one of Austin’s hottest emerging growth startups. 

Video: Welcome to System Surveyor

Welcome to System Surveyor. Here is a quick 1-minute video to help you get started.
System Surveyor is the easy-to-use, cloud-based system design platform of choice for security and IoT professionals.

Video Tutorial: Getting Started with System Surveyor

Quick video of our easy-to-use, cloud-based system design platform for security and IoT professionals.

Video Tutorial: How to Import Floor Plans

How to start a survey: Video shows how to import a floor plan using a PDF, JPG or PNG or how to use Google Maps within the platform for instant satellite map with automatic scaling for outdoor jobs.  No floor plan handy? Take a picture of a fire escape plan or sketch to get started.

Video Tutorial: How to Use Element Icons

Designed for Every Type of System You Need: Now that you have a floor plan or canvas, use the prepackaged icons for device elements to drag and drop and design quickly and easily. Prepackaged element icons for devices including Video Surveillance, Access Control, Intrusion Detection, IT, Building Management, Fire Alarm, Audio Visual and more..

Video Tutorial: What are Containers & How to Use Them

Collect multiple systems in one container: A great feature for those using intelligent system design tool to drag and drop related devices and elements. Select a Access Control door and use a container to include an ELock, Card Reader and other items. Automatically creates a bill of materials (BOM).

Video Tutorial: How to Use & Manage Element Profiles

Element Profiles: How to utilize a list of products associated with a specific element or device shown in System Surveyor. Element Profiles are created to expedite the design of projects and give users the ability to easily chose products for each element to create a Bill of Materials.

Video Tutorial: How to Apply & Configure Flex Cabling

Flex Cable Path: The highly anticipated System Surveyor Flex Cable Path feature gives users the ability to apply cable runs with multiple bends between devices (video surveillance, access control, IT, communications and more). The Cable Path tool estimates cable lengths to automate a bill of materials and provides details for installation and cable pulls.

Video Tutorial: How to Invite Guest Users

Inviting guest users:  If you want someone to participate in your design such as a subcontractor, manufacturer, or customer, you can invite them to be a guest user in System Surveyor. Learn more on how to collaborate and communicate using System Surveyor’s guest user feature. 

Video Tutorial: How to Organize & Estimate Projects

Get organized & estimate jobs: Learn more on how to organize and estimate projects with Layering and the Budget Estimator. Layering System Types and Project Status will help reduce clutter and easily track project status. With the Budget Estimator you can create a real-time budget for a project during the site survey process. Use your own cost and labor data.

Video Tutorial: How to Protect Device-Level Info Using InfoMask

InfoMask™: Learn how to protect device-level information such as passwords, IP address, subnet mask, license key with encryption and user privilege to access using InfoMask™.

Video Tutorial: How to Import & Export Reports

Branded reporting: A short video showing how to use reporting in System Surveyor and how to export in PDF or Excel.

Video Tutorial: How to Design ProdataKey using System Surveyor

ProdataKey is defining the future of access control. Easy-to-scale systems provide maximum security, real-time updates, & more, all managed from one simple app

Watch this interactive webinar featuring ProdataKey and learn about their products as well as best practices to designing a complete solution using System Surveyor.

Video Tutorial: How to Design Allied Telesis using System Surveyor

Allied Telesis is a leading provider of hardware and software products that allow customers to build secure, feature-rich and scalable data exchange solutions

Watch this interactive webinar featuring Allied Telesis and learn about their products as well as best practices to designing a complete solution using System Surveyor.

Video Tutorial: How to Design IC Realtime using System Surveyor

IC Realtime is a leading digital surveillance manufacturer serving the residential, commercial, government, and military security markets. With an expansive product portfolio of surveillance solutions, IC Realtime innovates, distributes, and supports global video technology.

Watch this interactive webinar featuring IC Realtime and learn about their products as well as best practices to designing a complete solution using System Surveyor.

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