Palm Beach is the easternmost town in Florida and is located on a 16-mile-long barrier island. Since the late 19th century, Palm Beach has developed a worldrenowned reputation for its beauty, quality of life and small-town character.
Post-downturn, home builders that traditionally eschewed technology are waking up to a ‘new’ reality and embracing home control and automation in a big way.
Honeywell announced a number of enhancements to its NOTIFIER Smart Wireless Integrated Fire Technology (SWIFT), which has greatly expanded the array of applications that are ideal for wireless systems.
Exacq Technologies, part of the security products business unit of Tyco, integrates with the Sensormatic anti-theft system from Tyco Retail Solutions. The combination of exacqVision VMS and the Sensormatic system is designed to give retail customers a unified Tyco solution, capturing loss event data and providing video recognition to improve loss prevention efforts.
I-View Now has integrated devices by FLIR Systems Inc., into the I-View Now platform. FLIR’s expanding line of recorders and thermal and visible cameras will be compatible for use with I-View Now’s video verification services.
Since the introduction of the digital communicator in 1978, our industry has spent thousands of costly man-hours programming (and often reprogramming) communicators, sensors and other devices. In the old days we had to program PROM chips using a vendor-specific “burner.” Today we still have to program many devices using either a keypad or a PC. Technicians performing these tasks need extensive knowledge of the device and the programming options to ensure the device or system functions properly and to avoid expensive callbacks.
LILIN North America and HARMAN’s AMX, a global provider of enterprise control and automation systems, as well as audio/video switching and distributing solutions, announced a technology partnership and driver integration that will supply mutual customers with comprehensive IP video surveillance management.