Technology advances are having a major impact on third-party wholesale central stations. After playing a vital role in monitoring burglar and fire alarm signals for decades, the central stations increasingly are handling new types of signals, including monitoring the health and well-being of patients, children and the elderly; providing new mass communications options for campus environments, and more.
Increasingly today’s wholesale central stations also are integrating their systems with those of equipment manufacturers and third-party application providers, thereby giving dealers more options and powerful new capabilities that they can offer to their customers.