Applications for CSAA's Excellence Awards Program are now online, and CSAA is seeking central stations and their managers, operators and support people who perform in the highest professional manner and make significant contributions to the betterment of the alarm industry to apply for this prestigious awards program.
Think outside the panel: Getting into interactive monitoring and related services can more easily lead to other revenue
January 30, 2013
Now that the elections and their TV ads are over with, you might notice that replacing those politicians are ads for interactive home services and monitoring. Homeowners can lock or unlock a front door of their home from a thousand miles away. They can receive and respond to alarms on a smartphone or look in through a camera to make sure Mikey came home from school or Rover is not tearing up the house. They can monitor and manage home appliances ranging from a complex HVAC system to a simple coffee pot.
The ASAP to PSAP program has cleared the hurdle of being able to accept additional central stations, and is now focused on recruiting the 6,500 PSAPs across the country.
COPS Monitoring, a provider of wholesale alarm monitoring services headquartered in Williamstown, N.J. acquired AlarmWATCH of Hunt Valley, Md. With the addition of AlarmWATCH, COPS Monitoring now provides services to more than 3,500 independent alarm dealers, who represent nearly 800,000 subscribers nationwide.
For the past several years, Bold Technologies, Colorado Springs, Colo., focused on building its annual users event to provide more practical knowledge and valuable networking to its customers. This year, more than 200 attendees — up from 130 at least year’s event — convened at the Brown Palace hotel in Denver from Aug. 6 to 9 to participate in the event.
Having watched the electronic security industry grow over the past 35 years, I found that what happened in the 1980s is here again. Before the introduction of the digital communicator around 1977, each alarm company had its own central station with leased, direct-wire types of connections to clients’ systems.
Mace Security International Inc., Horsham, Pa., announced the appointment of industry veteran Michael J. Joseph as vice president and general manager of Mace Central Station, the company’s wholesale central monitoring station located in Anaheim, Calif.
To provide greater redundancy and strengthen the reliability of its network, wholesale alarm monitoring services provider C.O.P.S. Monitoring, Williamstown, N.J., has opened its fifth central station.
To provide greater redundancy and strengthen the reliability of its network, wholesale alarm monitoring services provider C.O.P.S. Monitoring, Williamstown, N.J., opened its fifth central station.
