The late Don Springer started Viking Electronics in 1969, producing power supplies in the basement of his home in Hudson, Wis. 

Alertus Technologies once again provided critical emergency mass notification support for the Twin Cities Pride Festival via the Alertus Mobile App.

The LC-6 Line Concentrator allows six emergency phones to share a single analog phone line.

Rave Mobile Safety, provider of critical communication and data platform solutions, announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has formally recognized Rave Alert, Smart911 (the Rave 911 Suite) and Rave Panic Button as qualified anti-terrorism technologies through the award of both SAFETY Act Designation and SAFETY Act Certification. Through this award, key components of the Rave Platform are now on the DHS SAFETY Act’s Approved Technologies list.

The Viking DNA-510 Mass Notification Announcer allows users to record emergency messages for playback over an existing paging system.

Tyco Security Products, part of Tyco, has deployed the C•CURE 9000 access control solution across the King County, Wash. region to provide a single management platform for increased security.

There are many code- and standards-regulating bodies that have a say in state and local fire codes, including UL, Intertek and others. But NFPA 72 — the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code — is arguably the most influential. SDM spoke with Richard Roux, senior electrical specialist at NFPA about recent and upcoming changes to the code one integrator referred to as “the Bible” of fire protection.

TextSpeak’s TTS-EM-CE (a new addition to the earBridge family) is a cellular-enabled text-to-speech amplifier that transfers SMS emergency cellular text messages directly to voice announcements on speakers and paging systems.