Physical security, put to the test.

Evaluate, innovate, and evolve your security program with ZBeta LabZ.

LabZ: a hub for physical security innovation

Collaborations, evaluations, and conversations for a secure future

Go beyond the traditional barriers to innovative physical security design. Brainstorm with your industry peers and eliminate the guesswork that comes from implementing untested solutions.

ZBeta LabZ is a comprehensive, site-focused program for getting hands-on with our clients and trying out ideas together that help optimize their success—all while elevating physical security knowledge and capabilities across our industry. Its centerpiece is the ZBeta Innovation Lab in Chicago, a versatile built environment featuring:

A fully-equipped workshop populated with a rotating array of the latest security equipment
A growing sandbox of major access control, video management, and other solutions
Extensive test camera and intrusion sensor arrays from multiple manufacturers
A large testing floor accommodating multiple simultaneous life-size scenarios
A broad and ever-growing variety of central and ancillary technologies and hardware
Access to our manufacturer trained and certified experts for best-in-class implementation
Meeting, presentation, touchdown, and collaboration spaces for discussing results

Join us at LabZ and meet with ZBeta experts in a real-world environment for focused activities that can influence physical security for years to come.

Real-world testing
Conduct bench, performance, and functional tests on equipment and integrated solutions, including piloting and proofs of concept.

Knowledge base
Help build out an extensive database of security manufacturers, products, and solution criteria, and get expert opinions on all technology categories.

Research and analysis
Work with us to collect and examine system and program data to find trends, validate costs and benefits, and set performance benchmarks.

Solution optimization
Lock in solution quality with ZBeta research-driven consulting, roadmap development, automation, and advanced programming and configuration.

Industry collaboration
Engage us to help face and master the key and evolving challenges affecting our industry by questioning assumptions and proposing solutions.

Evaluate, innovate, evolve

By supplying our industry with an advanced testing and research center, ZBeta offers unprecedented opportunities for the companies we work with to achieve new insights into physical security solutions, methodologies, philosophies, and design.

New-to-market equipment and technology testing

Hands-on demonstrations of real-life configurations

Design validations for innovative new solution ideas

Integration testing to prove inter-technology compatibility

Productivity gap analysis to maximize product/solution investment

What’s in the lab?

A fully resourced environment for efficient bench-level testing and solution optimization
Full height swing door mockups for testing access control scenarios and user experience
Robust and flexible data network networks and cabling infrastructure
A full representation of access control and intrusion detection control hardware products
Extensive test camera and intrusion sensor arrays from multiple manufacturers

Multiple access control reader and credential solutions and related technologies
An adjustable and programmable LED lighting solution, simulating level and color conditions
Security turnstile and revolving door test units
Several multi-position operations center consoles to simulate key operational use cases and UIs
Sit-down spaces to meet and discuss design strategy, testing outcomes, and next steps