Articles Tagged with ''security integrators''

Systems integration and project management company G4S Technology (formerly Adesta), Omaha, Neb., has won a contract to provide security system upgrades for the Washington State Department of Transportation Ferries Division.

The first step was a name change to distinguish ADT’s residential and commercial business sides, but the biggest change came yesterday when Tyco Integrated Security (TIS) shed its ADT roots altogether as part of parent company Tyco International’s split into three separate, publicly traded companies.

Arecent groundswell in the development of coax-based Ethernet and Power over Ethernet (PoE) transceivers is providing a revolutionary opportunity for security integrators. These devices provide a simple way to upgrade and update video surveillance, access control, intercom and other system types by connecting the latest in IP-enabled devices to coax cables that were previously installed within the past 20 years.

At next week’s ASIS International 58th Annual Seminar and Exhibits, attendees will once again have a wide variety of educational, networking and information-gathering opportunities, including the Integrator Series, as well as a reason to celebrate.

Brivo Systems LLC, a provider of cloud applications for security management, announced that it entered into a new partnership agreement with Integrator Support. Integrator Support is a provider of wholesale security services to the premier systems integration community.

Honeywell announced that global security integrator Stanley Security, was named the 2011 recipient of the Honeywell Integrated Security President’s Award.

 This new partnership allows Integrator Support dealers to access Brivo’s cloud-based ACS WebService®.

AMAG Technology and Communications Engineering Company (CEC), a systems and technology integrator, are partnering to bring CEC customers an affordable access control solution with straightforward interfaces.

Security systems integrators had expected to pull ahead in 2011, but instead they experienced a dismal first half of the year and a better-by-comparison but still “just average” second half. Following a 4.4 percent drop in 2010, systems integration revenue among the industry’s largest security companies fell yet again — by 3.6 percent in 2011 — leaving many wondering what it would take to get back up to speed. Integrators face sharp curves in the need to quickly adopt IP as the primary infrastructure for security systems, as well as to create business models that offer security as a service.