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M-00The Smartech Standard
Designed before installed.
Four steps, each with something you can hold: survey notes, drawings, a locked scope and an as-built set. Here is what each one produces and why it keeps change orders out.
SHT-02Four steps
Survey. Design. Lock. Install.
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Survey
We walk every site before we price it: doors, ceilings, closets, existing devices, cable paths and the people who will use the system.
- Site survey notes and photos
- Existing device inventory
- Questions for your IT and facilities teams
- 02
Design
Every device goes on the drawing with its location, coverage and connection, so you can see what you are buying before you buy it.
- Device layout drawings
- Camera field-of-view studies
- Riser and network diagram
- 03
Lock the scope
One device schedule, one bill of materials and one written scope with its exclusions. What is not on paper is not assumed.
- Device schedule and line-item BOM
- Written scope with exclusions
- Schedule and phasing by site
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Install & close out
We install what the drawing says, test it with you and hand over a system your team can run and the next technician can read.
- As-built drawings
- Programming and IP records
- Closeout package and training
SHT-03Locked scope
What “locked scope” means.
A locked scope is three documents that agree with each other: the drawings, the device schedule and the written scope. Every device on the drawing is a line on the schedule; every line on the schedule is priced; everything not on them is listed as an exclusion or an assumption.
After that, a change is a decision you make, priced before it happens. It is not a discovery on site. In Smartech's own words, “we refuse to accept mediocrity or rely on unnecessary change orders”.
“scope accurately, standardize solutions and deliver predictable outcomes”
SHT-04The drawing
The drawing is the contract.
Switch the layers. Each device you see is a priced line in the schedule beside it.
| CAM-D | Fixed dome camera | 6 |
| CAM-P | PTZ camera, exterior | 1 |
| RDR | Card reader + electrified lock | 5 |
| ACP | Access control panel | 1 |
| PIR | Motion detector | 3 |
| DC | Exterior door contact | 4 |
| INT | Video intercom, entry station | 1 |
| MST | Master station, front office | 1 |
Sample drawing for illustration. Your review gets drawings of your own sites.
SHT-05On paper and on site
Drawings first, then the field.
SHT-06Why it works
What buyers ask for, in their words.
“I’m also hoping they’re going to draw out information that perhaps I hadn’t even thought about”
“Start gathering documents sooner rather than later.”
Industry voices quoted from published interviews. They describe what buyers ask of integrators; they are not reviews of Smartech.