UL-Listed Integrator · Charlotte, North Carolina
One security standard.
Every location.
Kestrel designs, installs, certifies and monitors electronic security for organizations that operate more than one facility, with the same team from first survey through final commissioning.
Who we serve
Built for organizations with four to forty facilities.
Most security integrators are built for one of two customers: the single storefront, or the national enterprise buying through a procurement framework. Multi-location organizations in between get the worst of both: a consumer product sold at scale, or a national contract with a subcontracted technician who has never seen the building.
Kestrel exists for the middle. We serve the Carolinas and Mid-Atlantic with our own technicians, our own UL-listed monitoring center, and one assigned account engineer who surveys your first location and is still on the account three years later.
No subcontracted labor
Every install and service call is performed by a Kestrel employee. There is no regional partner network between you and the work.
Certification is the deliverable
Carriers reduce premiums on certificated systems, not installed ones. We issue the documentation your underwriter actually asks for.
Pricing you can audit
Unit price times location count. Recurring lines stated separately. The proposal and the invoice are the same document.
Capabilities
Six systems, priced per location.
No bundles and no obscured line items. Every program is priced the same way: unit price multiplied by location count, with monitoring and maintenance stated as separate annual lines.
Standard monitoring term is three years; five-year terms carry a discount. All pricing in USD and excludes sales tax, remedial cabling and structural work.
Industries
Where we do our best work.
We do not chase single-site retail and we do not bid national framework contracts. Our programs are sized for organizations running facility portfolios, where consistency across locations matters more than the price of any one panel.
Branch networks
Carrier-mandated protection grades, dual authorization on secure areas, and recording that holds up as evidence.
Store portfolios & distribution
Shrink analytics, back-of-house access control, and one operating picture across every store and DC.
Senior living & clinics
Visitor access control that satisfies a state licensing survey without turning a residence into a checkpoint.
Warehousing & industrial
Perimeter detection, yard plate recognition and dock coverage for facilities running around the clock.
Independent schools
Lockdown control, safeguarding-aware camera placement, and work scheduled around the academic calendar.
Insurance-triggered refresh
An aging estate, a claim, or a renewal condition. We survey, specify, certify and hand the file to your broker.
The difference
A camera that nobody is watching is a receipt, not a control.
Equipment is the easy part of this industry. What separates programs that work from programs that merely exist is whether someone qualified is on the other end of the signal, and whether the paperwork stands up when a carrier or a regulator asks for it.
Central station
Monitored in Charlotte, by our own people.
Our UL 827 listed central station is staffed by nine Kestrel operators. Signals are never routed to a third-party wholesale monitoring provider, which means the person who picks up your alarm has access to the same site records as the technician who installed it.
- UL 827 listed, TMA Five Diamond certified central station
- Dual-path signaling with cellular failover on every account
- Redundant power and a fully mirrored secondary receiving site
- Average alarm acknowledgment of 8.2 seconds across 2025
Estimate
Size your program before you call.
Indicative budgetary pricing, using the same unit rates that appear on our proposals. Set your location count, select the systems you need, and see first-year cost alongside the ongoing annual commitment.
Budgetary only. Excludes sales tax, remedial cabling and structural work. A chargeable site survey produces the actual bill of materials and is credited in full against any order.
Send this to a surveyor →Results
Seven communities, nine weeks.
Ardleigh Care Group came to us with a state licensing survey finding on visitor access control and a fixed remediation deadline. We surveyed all seven communities in eleven days and cut over without relocating a single resident.
“They were not the lowest quote on the table. They were the only firm that told us in writing which protection grade we needed, and why, before we had signed anything.”
Group Facilities Director
Ardleigh Care Group · 7 communities · North Carolina & Virginia
How it runs
Survey first. Always.
A multi-location program typically runs 90 to 120 days from first call to final commissioning. Nobody should quote your portfolio off a spreadsheet, including us.
Scoping call
Thirty minutes. Location count, age of the existing estate, and what triggered the review: an incident, a carrier, or an expiring contract.
Site survey
Chargeable and credited on order. We walk the buildings, test which cabling is reusable, and confirm the protection grade your carrier requires.
Priced proposal
Per location, itemized, with the monitoring term on the first page. Certification documentation and the carrier packet attached.
Contract & legal
Where most projects stall. Our standard position on termination, service levels and video data handling is published up front, not negotiated late.
Phased installation
Kestrel technicians, after hours where a location cannot close. Pilot site first, then rollout against a fixed schedule.
Handover & monitoring
Certification issued, portfolio connected to the central station, named technician assigned. Q4 installation slots fill by late September.
Request a survey
Tell us about the portfolio.
A Kestrel surveyor, not a call center, will respond within one business day with an indicative schedule and a proposed survey date.
- A named surveyor responds, with a direct line
- Survey fee credited in full against any order
- Carrier protection grade confirmed in writing before you commit
- No auto-dialer and no drip sequence