Two key meetings held on Tuesday, June 23 at the ESX show in Baltimore were the Electronic Security Association’s annual membership meeting and the Central Station Alarm Association International’s general membership meeting.
On June 25, 2015, two motions will be considered at the NFPA meeting in Chicago which will impact the security industry as well as its customers. The Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) issued the following information to explain the proposed NFPA revisions and how they could limit or eliminate private competition by listed central stations’ ability to provide remote station service.
Industry veteran Jay Hauhn has been named the new executive director of CSAA International, Vienna, Virginia. Hauhn will assume his new role, which is the lead staff position of the association, on April 6, 2015.
As Security Partners, Lancaster, Pa., prepares to open its state-of-the-art Secure Operation Center in Las Vegas, the national company announced it has acquired certain assets of 1 Time Inc., a Henderson, Nev.-based, UL, CSAA-Five Diamond certified central station.
Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) International, Vienna, Va., announced that the Alarm Industry Communications Committee has launched an industry-wide survey on the issue of dropped signals involving Digital Alarm Communications Transmitters.
Protection 1 announced that it has been awarded the Central Station Alarm Association’s (CSAA) elite CSAA Five Diamond Certification for its Irving, Tex., call center.
Due to new technologies and successful efforts to reduce false alarms, CSAA International has begun the process of developing a revision of the Alarm Verification and Notification Procedures Standard (CS-V-01). This standard defines methods by which false dispatches can be greatly reduced — with the intent to increase efficiencies by reducing costs and eliminating wasteful efforts associated with potential false alarms. Public comments are now being accepted on the revision draft.
The Central Station Alarm Association, Vienna, Va., announced that Steve Shapiro, vice president of industry relations for ADT, was appointed to the CSAA board of directors in October.
