Cunningham Security · Serving New England since 1983
Commercial security and fire systems
Plan your fire alarms, intrusion protection, cameras and door access with one local team. Cunningham helps businesses and managed properties across Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts with installations, upgrades, monitoring and service.
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Protecting a business involves more than choosing an alarm. You may need to secure a loading door, manage employee access, see what happened overnight or bring a fire alarm project through installation and testing. The right starting point is the problem you need to solve.
What does your property need?
Detect a break-in or manage the business alarm
Plan protection for doors and interior areas, separate arming needs, employee codes, communications and professional monitoring.
Install or upgrade a fire alarm
Coordinate the building's fire alarm requirements with its use, project plans and the authorities responsible for approval.
Arrange fire alarm inspection or testing
Get an existing system's testing, records and reported deficiencies into a manageable service process.
Control who can enter
Replace shared keys or codes with managed door access. Plan staff, tenant and contractor permissions, schedules and existing-system takeovers.
Record activity and review incidents
Choose camera views around the details you need to see, with appropriate recording, lighting and remote access.
Respond to outdoor activity
Explore whether a monitored video service fits an equipment yard, parking area or other defined space, including detection and response arrangements.
Know about water or temperature problems
Discuss selected environmental conditions, the appropriate sensors and who should receive a signal when attention is needed.
Monitor an alarm or change providers
Arrange professional alarm monitoring, or find out whether an installed system can support a provider change, repairs or selective upgrades.
Coordinate the systems where it helps the people using them
Security works better when the everyday routines are considered together. A manager should know whether unlocking a door also disarms an alarm, whether a camera event reaches a monitoring operator and which person receives a water alert after closing.
Integration can make those tasks easier when the equipment supports it. It still needs a clear plan: which event triggers which action, who has permission to change it and what happens when a connection is unavailable.
| Situation | What to coordinate |
|---|---|
| A retailer adds evening cleaning | Door permissions, the cleaning route, separate alarm areas and the final closing routine. |
| A warehouse adds a delivery entrance | The new opening's alarm protection, door access, camera view and normal delivery schedule. |
| A property changes tenants | Old credentials and codes, responsibility for common areas, the new floor plan and any required fire alarm review. |
| A business reduces winter hours | Access and arming schedules, current contacts and appropriate water or temperature alerts. |
These are planning examples. We will develop the actual scope around your property, rather than assume every business needs every service.
New project, renovation or existing system?
For a new building or fit-out
Bring us into the conversation while door hardware, cable routes, equipment locations and network requirements can still be coordinated. Share the drawings and schedule you have, along with the owner's, insurer's or tenant's requirements.
For an occupied building
Tell us which areas must remain accessible and when installation work would be least disruptive. We can discuss phasing, work around business hours where practical and identify dependencies on other trades.
For a takeover or upgrade
Start with what is installed and what is no longer working for you. Useful existing wiring, sensors or door hardware may be retained after evaluation. Brand names help, but equipment condition, compatibility, administrative access and ongoing support determine the options.
A useful proposal should make the scope clear: equipment and installation, reused components, any work assigned to another trade, ongoing monitoring or software charges, and the functions your team will be trained to use.
Local support across Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts
Cunningham has served New England since 1983. Our regional offices are in Falmouth and Wiscasset, Maine; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; and Topsfield, Wakefield and Pocasset, Massachusetts.
Our service-area guide explains statewide Maine technical service and the regions covered by our New Hampshire and Massachusetts teams. Share the property address and the type of work so we can connect you with the appropriate team.
For a project with multiple locations, include the full list at the beginning. That helps us consider consistent user permissions, management responsibilities and supported equipment across sites while allowing for each building's requirements.
What happens next?
- Tell us what has prompted the project. A new building, an upcoming inspection, an unreliable alarm and a lost-key problem need different starting points.
- Review the property and existing systems. We establish the scope, site conditions, required coordination and equipment that may be reusable.
- Agree on the work and ongoing services. The proposal should identify the intended result, project boundaries and recurring services.
- Install, test and hand over. Commission the included functions and make sure the responsible people understand their operation. Fire-system testing and approvals follow the requirements for that project.
Tell us what you want to improve
Include the property location, building use and the service you are considering. For an existing system, add its brand if known and a brief description of the issue. A floor plan or equipment list can help later; neither is required to start the conversation.
For an existing-system repair, use Request Service instead. Call (800) 564-8273 for time-sensitive technical help.
