ACTALL names Barry Prestage business development director

ACTALL has hired security industry veteran Barry Prestage to expand its real-time location business in correctional, custody and healthcare markets, while pushing into other secure environments. The move comes as the Denver company leans on its hardware-agnostic ACTALL HubSens platform to meet demand for location intelligence in complex buildings.

Why it matters: - ACTALL is trying to grow beyond its core correctional and custody business as demand rises for real-time location intelligence in security, safety and operations. - The company is positioning its location technology for facilities where single-system RTLS deployments are hard to maintain because of complex architecture, legacy systems and challenging RF environments. - Prestage’s background in corrections and security sales gives ACTALL a senior hire aimed at opening doors in established markets and adjacent secure environments.

What happened: - ACTALL appointed Barry Prestage as Business Development Director. - The appointment was announced Sept. 15, 2026, in Denver. - Prestage will focus on business development in correctional, custody and healthcare markets. - Prestage will also help ACTALL expand into other secure environments with similar operational needs.

The details: - Prestage has more than 30 years of experience in corrections and security. - He most recently served as Corrections Vertical Director in Motorola Solutions’ Video Security and Access Control division. - His earlier roles included business development positions at Pelco and more than 17 years with Norment Security Group. - His background includes access control, CCTV, alarm reporting, personal duress, perimeter intrusion detection and integrated electronic control systems. - Those systems were used in correctional facilities, courthouses and other secure environments. - ACTALL has built its business around RTLS for environments where conventional approaches struggle, including correctional facilities and behavioral health facilities. - The company is expanding that experience into a wider set of secure and operationally complex environments. - ACTALL HubSens is the company’s hardware-agnostic location engine. - HubSens is designed to bring location data from different specialist technologies into one software layer instead of requiring a single RTLS infrastructure. - Prestage will work with specifying partners, systems integrators and end users. - Target applications include staff safety, personnel location, automated mustering, restricted-zone monitoring and asset tracking. - ACTALL also wants broader adoption in sites where multiple location technologies, legacy systems and complex RF environments make a single-technology approach impractical. - Bob Hampe, ACTALL’s president and CEO, said Prestage combines security industry knowledge, customer relationships and technical understanding that fit the company’s focus on simplifying location and sensor intelligence in complex environments. - Hampe said Prestage will help ACTALL build on its position in complex architecture and extend that capability into more environments. - Prestage said he wants to help customers use the right location technologies for their environment and bring the data together in one platform.

Between the lines: - ACTALL is signaling a shift from niche RTLS deployments toward a broader platform strategy built around interoperability. - The company’s emphasis on combining multiple location technologies suggests customers want flexibility more than a one-size-fits-all infrastructure. - Hiring an executive with deep corrections experience suggests ACTALL sees the strongest near-term growth still tied to secure facilities, even as it widens its addressable market.

What's next: - Prestage will start building opportunities with partners and end users across ACTALL’s target markets. - ACTALL is likely to keep promoting HubSens as the core of its expansion strategy. - The company is also seeking more adoption in environments where security, reliability and mixed technology stacks are central requirements.

The bottom line: - ACTALL is betting that a veteran hire and a hardware-agnostic platform will help it grow from specialized corrections deployments into a broader secure-location market. - More information is available at actall.com.