Richard Soloway
Analyst · Lake Street. Please, state your question.
Probably Jason, because historically, schools only want us -- they only want to do the installs in the summer months, when the kids are completely out of school. Or even in the winter months, when there's like an intersession or the kids are out of school. It’s different now. I think they didn't do it during the summer months. And they want to do it now. And campuses are not that busy. Even though school is returned, it's not like it normally is. And so they want to forge ahead. And we do also, and as soon as the universities give the integrators the go ahead, a lot of it's going to start up again. So I don't think the whole seasonality is going to hold true anymore. They want to get this thing done, now they're behind. And remember, most schools have no security, maybe 10% have security in the schools and the big open areas, probably 90% of schools have nothing. Hard to believe, despite all the shootings and events that have gone on, so still a big opportunity. It's up to us to push forward with the integrators and with the universities. And with K-12, there's many schools out there, over 100,000 K-12, over over 10,000 universities. And it's not just schools, any place where people gather is an opportunity. Whether it's a house of worship, whether it's a restaurant chain, anywhere, they're all subject to the same chaos that could happen. So we're working hard to get our products into all these places. There's a demographic change here. The population is there's more chaos in the streets. The police are, as we know, are being marginalized. And that incites a lot of tension in schools and places of worship, because you never know what can happen. Even restaurant business when people come breaking into restaurants while people are there. So there's definitely an on-going changes taking place where more security is going to be necessary. And our dealers are going to -- we predict they're going to be busier than ever going forward. And then the products that we have them installed will have recurring revenue component to them. So they’ll need more protection for the businesses, more protection for the homes, dealers will be motivated to put more jobs in because there's a bigger demand for this type of equipment. And they will make recurring revenue for themselves. And we get the recurring revenue from these jobs for ourselves. So we predict that this is going to be a big sea change going forward. And we're constantly putting money into engineering. We keep our engineering budgets in line, but we come out with more efficient products efficiently of developing products. And there's a lot of new things on the horizon. Everything will have recurring revenue component to it that we're developing now.