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PERS Continues to Expand With Greater Functionality

Today’s PERS are expanding past the traditional home unit.

July 15, 2014

With the added mobility, smaller form factors, wireless communications, and integration with apps, GPS, and geo-fencing, the solutions are more acceptable and effective than ever before. Here are just a few of the advancements in today’s “next-generation” PERS.

Digital Shuffle - June 2014

Mobile friendly and re-designed websites.

Maggie Shein

June 9, 2014

This month's digital shuffle focuses on mobile friendly websites and re-designed sites for easier navigation.

Micro Key Conference Focuses on Workflow Optimization

More than 150 attendees from 57 companies attended the education and networking event, with a strong focus on workflow.

Maggie Shein

May 20, 2014

Attendees were educated on the 350 new features, two mobile applications, add-on modules, and a new graphical user interface for its software, staying with the theme of how the new additions could help optimize overall workflow efficiency.

DMP Hosts Information-Packed Owners Forum

Digital Monitoring Products held its third annual Owners Forum in conjunction with ISC West on April 1.

Heather Klotz-Young

May 20, 2014

Throughout the event a comedic mind-reader, Eric Dittelman, provided an element of lighthearted fun. Dittelman appeared on season 7 of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” in 2012 where he advanced to the semi-finals.

ScanSource Strengthens Worldwide Management Structure

November 27, 2013

ScanSource Inc., Greenville, S.C., recently announced a new management structure in order to enhance its worldwide technology markets focus and growth strategy.

ASIS Int’l Selects 2013 Accolades Winners

ASIS International selected its 2013 ASIS Accolades Award winners.

November 14, 2013

The awards competition recognizes the security industry’s most innovative new products, services, and/or solutions. The 10 winners were recognized at the ASIS International 59th Annual Seminar and Exhibits (ASIS 2013), held in late September in Chicago.

Home Networks

Implementing Enterprise-Grade Wireless Systems for Homeowners

Nick McLain

July 23, 2012

As homeowners seek to have wireless automation and security systems accessible through mobile devices, security professionals working in the home have more opportunities to find new and recurring revenue streams in the IP and networking businesses.

Laser Sensor Is Integrated With Security Platform

May 23, 2012

Optex Co. Ltd. announced the integration of its Redscan laser sensor with Genetec’s Security Center, a unified platform that seamlessly blends IP license plate recognition, video surveillance and access control.

Heightened Access Control

Utilities take ‘rugged environments’ to another level. Manufacturers and integrators discuss access control in this critical infrastructure.

Karyn Hodgson

February 22, 2012

The utility environment is challenging in many ways. Brent Franklin, president, Unlimited Technology Inc., Chester Springs, Pa., sums it up appropriately when he says, “Utilities are often located in the middle of some of the worst environments and applications you can possibly imagine. They are in the middle of a transformer field or on the side of a rocky hill. They absolutely have a lot more inherent risk than a normal office building.”

Detection Solution Alerts for Wildlife on Highways

October 18, 2011

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) put into operation and continues to test the first detection system in the United States that alerts drivers in real time of wildlife on highways that cause risk to motorists. The system should replace the existing, widely used method of static signs that inform drivers of the potential wildlife "statistic" risk, rather than informing them of the real and immediate presence of animals.