Through thick and thin, you are now a success entrepreneur. Congratulations! Your business is expanding, therefore you have to hire more workers. In this respect, you have to add more extension to your PABX system.

To recap, the term PABX (Private Automatic Branch Exchange) is often used as a synonym for “telephone system”. PABX are switchboards which connect several units of telephone with public line provider.

Okay, regarding to add more extensions, you have to finalize the number of extensions to be added.

And then, contact your PABX contractor to check if your existing system can cater for the need? Your PABX contractor can throw some simple question or arrange a brief survey at the PABX system. In order to add more telephone extension, PABX contractor has to check whether the slot is enough? Is it have to add extension card? Add expansion PABX cabinet or perhaps, upgrade the system.

Do not worry on what or how, PABX specialist will have the answer.

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) mostly installed at places such as banks, stores, offices, shops and also housing areas for surveillance purposes. Some CCTV systems may be required to operate continuously or as and when required for certain hour, depending on user requirement.

In 1927, an early mechanical CCTV was developed and installed for the purpose of state surveillance. Today, many of us have to work from home due to the outbreak of Covid-19. In this matter, no doubt you would want to be able to check on your work place or home, doesn’t matter where you are.

Thank you to the advancement of technology, now you can monitor your CCTV camera from your mobile phone.

Hence, you have the freedom and flexibility to view or disconnect from the monitors. Conveniently, you can still check on your CCTV camera, doesn’t matter where you are.

The whole world is now facing panic caused by Covid-19. Primarily Corona virus disease spreads through contact with infected person when they cough or sneeze.

In this case, Prime Minister announces restricted movement order from 18th Mar to 14th April 2020. Many business premises have to be closed to prevent the spread of the Corona virus. But that doesn’t mean that business can’t be carried out throughout the period. Calls can be made, questions can be asked and calls can be accepted.

You can divert your calls to your hand phone and you can work from home. This facility allows you to divert your call to an alternate number or to your hand phone. In order to do this, please talk to your line providers or service providers.

Stay safe. Work from home.

Voicemail is a feature that can store messages from telephone callers. In the yesteryears, voicemail was developed because it has to receive every call even when you are not around. Nowadays, voicemail can also facilitate as a call screening device, especially from spammers.

Do you know how it works?

When someone calls you or your office, and the call is unanswered, you can record your voice into a digital mailbox. The voice can be retrieved later from the mailbox at your convenient.

Voicemail is also a good helper. You may receive many calls everyday from your clients. Surely they have many questions for you. And at the same time, you have to do other works. Or have to focus on other tasks, in this case, you might miss important calls.

So, talk to your telephone contractor and ask him about the voicemail.

For surveillance purposes, hard drives have been pre-installed inside the DVR (digital video recorder). On the other hand, user can also installed external hard disk for security cameras to a DVR. The hard disk drive (HDD) or a security camera hard drive is important to record video footage 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Generally, many companies require the cctv recording to record and do archive continuously for 90 days or more. Looking at this, consumer certainly needs a large storage capacity. External hard disk has different capacity according to your needs. You can choose from 1 terra byte space (TB), 2 TB, 4 TB or bigger.

After deciding on the hard disk, proper installation is needed, in order for you to have a security system tailored to your company’s needs. Do talk to your contractor on the best solutions for your needs, either to protect your loved ones, property or your business.

Your job may require you to use headset especially if you are a call centre workers. You have to talk and take notes at the same time, almost instantaneously. A telephone headset role is to replace the telephone handset. Telephone headsets will be connected to office phone (fixed-line telephone) with a connector.

Some employees may request a mono headset. Mono headset is also called monaural headphones. Mono headset has single earpiece, to emit voice from a single source, be it left or right. Mono headset is suitable for people who needs to listen to telephone conversation, and at the same time has to talk to others in the office. Means they are open to distraction. It depends a lot on the work environment.

Choose wisely.

Moving office is a very common practise. It is the same as moving from one house to another. Whereby you will be moving your sofa, your kitchen appliances, your clothes, etc from your old house to your new house.

For an office, you will move your filing cabinet, your tables, your chairs, your rack and of course, your pabx system. In order to move the pabx system, it is advisable not to do that on your own.

Better hire a contractor to do everything; pabx expert or professional service provider. Make sure that he is well verse with pabx system. For that reason,he can manage everything from moving the teeny weeny components to carry the big cabinet of the telephone system and installing it at the new address.

The first time attendance system was invented to record the time an employee entered and left the work place. The modern time attendance system do more than that. It will record the time arrival, time leaving the work place, duration on lunch break/tea break, absenteeism etc. With this, HR staff can calculate the salary, leave, overtime easily.

For the upgrading purposes from the traditional time clocking system to the newest time attendance system, please put on your thinking cap.

Things to consider:

• Time tracking : the system must be able to track employees’ movements as and when the need arises.
• Overtime : the system must be able to produce report for the purpose of overtime claim.

Dome camera is commonly used for security and surveillance, indoor and outdoor. It is named after the shape, dome-like. CCTV dome camera is good to use for massive area surveillance. Other than that, these are three common reasons to install dome camera:

1. Angle. The shape makes it multi-functional and flexible. The area of scouting can be expanded to 180-degree or staggering 360-degree.
2. Discreet. This type of camera is unnoticeable, low profile. People can wander around and do not notice the existence or the camera. It is difficult to tell which way the camera is facing. Therefore creates an air of uncertainty for observers.
3. Easy to blend in with interior. The shape, colour, appearance of the dome camera is natural and no sharp contrast to the surrounding. It appears simple with minimalist touch. Can easily blend in with the natural settings in houses or offices.

Above all, built-in infrared LEDs can deliver sharp and clear images, especially if the camera is equipped with advanced sensors and high resolution.