Author: David Carta, Telaeris CEO

Having procedures in place for workplace evacuations is part of what employers should do to keep their employees safe in case of emergencies. “Accounting for all employees after an emergency evacuation has been completed” is one of the Department of Labor’s minimum requirements for an emergency action plan (EAP). However, the manner in which an employer should perform ..

Every summer, Telaeris hires a number of interns to work on a variety of real world projects. At the close of the internships, they are asked to write an article that highlights the biggest lessons they learned while working with us. Some of these articles we feature on our Telaeris blog. But even for students [...]

A customer asked if we could use a passive UHF RFID (Ultra-High Frequency Radio Frequency Identification) system to monitor if employees crossed a certain line in their warehouse. Because of the industry they were in, they could be assessed steep fines when unauthorized people entered restricted areas. After hearing about this request from my engineers, [...]

Telaeris was recently approached by a company inquiring about our XPressEntry (XPE) emergency mustering system. One of the first questions they asked was: "How long does it take to get a current list of onsite employees after the emergency starts?" I had to stop for a moment and make sure I heard the question appropriately. My [...]

Automation - it's what modern-day technology is all about! Track Construction Time Recently, Telaeris was asked to simplify employee timekeeping for a construction yard using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The company had 3000 employees and wanted to know both who was on the job site and when they came and left. Instead of hand-punched [...]

Mark Miller, our biz-dev guy here at Telaeris, recently received some training to improve how he uses LinkedIn for networking. Following my mantra of needing to teach something to really learn it, Mark gave a presentation to the Telaeris staff on how we could all use LinkedIn more effectively. Everyone at the office got so much out [...]

Whether you work for a large or small company, every dollar spent on marketing should count. That means utilizing what is readily available and using the right tools to be productive. In 2010, Telaeris started using a marketing automation tool called Infusionsoft. Our goal was simple at the time: turn website visitors into customers. The formula was [...]

The world of being a Telaeris intern can be both wonderful and terrifying. Wonderful in that you are given the opportunity to gain industry experience and insight, yet terrifying in that you are constantly challenged by projects where you have no idea where to start. It is in these moments of uncertainty and fear that you [...]

A few months ago, we published a history of where Wiegand came from and a "light-on-technical-details" overview of how it works. For those of us that are more engineer-y, it left a bit to be desired. For me in particular, I recently was doing some low-level work with one of my engineers. We were monitoring [...]