Hilmar Cheese Company
Privacy for a Security Booth Full of Monitors
A guard booth is glass on every side by design — the officers have to see out. The problem is that everyone can also see in, including at what is on the screens.
Hilmar, CA
- Film
- TrueVue 15
- Application
- Security checkpoint
- Need
- Privacy + visibility
- Glazing
- Wraparound
The challenge
A security checkpoint is a contradiction in glass. The officers inside need an unobstructed view of every vehicle approaching the gate, so the booth is glazed on all sides. But that same glazing puts a bank of monitors — gate cameras, plates, site feeds — on display to anyone who pulls up. Add the Central Valley sun hitting a small glass box all afternoon and you have a hot room where the screens are hard to read and visible to the wrong people.
What we did
We installed TrueVue 15. It is a high-performance film that rejects a large share of solar energy while staying genuinely optically clear, which is the specific reason it suits this job: a cheaper dark film would have bought privacy by making it harder for the officers to see out at dusk. TrueVue keeps outward visibility sharp while cutting the daytime view inward and taking the heat load off the booth.
The result
The monitors are no longer readable from outside the booth in daylight, the officers keep the clear sightlines the post depends on, and the cabin runs materially cooler through the afternoon. The glazing looks consistent from the approach road rather than patched with blinds or paper.
