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I have been involved with the Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) for approximately seven years and am honored to be named president. The CSAA has a proud history of representing its membership on a wide range of issues that impact the monitoring industry.
At the 2013 CSAA International annual meeting held in Quebec City in October this year, Don Young and Steve Walker, representing the Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response group, met with other CSAA members to discuss PPVAR initiatives with hopes of taking steps towards the groups merging and collectively working together.
Video verification is critical to the industry’s future — and determining the best way to utilize it and create best practices will involve all the different stakeholders, including security industry, law enforcement, the insurance industry and end users.
The Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response (PPVAR) announced that the Sonitrol National Dealers Association (SNDA) voted to become a member of the PPVAR. The SNDA is composed of 45 independent Sonitrol franchise holders with locations across the United States and Canada.
The new Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response (PPVAR) is pleased to announce that Anthony Canale, vice president of Verisk Crime Analytics, has joined its board of directors. Verisk Crime Analytics, a unit of Verisk Analytics, supports law enforcement with crime-related analytical tools that bridge the gap between the public and private sectors to provide value for the industries they serve.
Since the Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response group was introduced a primary point of discussion has been whether it would continue to operate as an independent organization or whether it would be absorbed by an established industry organization like CSAA or ESA, in order to ensure that the message sent to law enforcement and insurers was cohesive and representative of the whole industry.
Protection 1, Romeoville, Ill., partnered with I-View Now to enable cloud-based video services. The integration of the I-View Now technology enables receipt of alarm video — both pre- and post-alarm — in Protection 1’s security automation system by alarm center agents, as well as simultaneous delivery to customer mobile devices and event storage on the customer’s eSuite Web-based account.