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 Even with the cloud poised to have a huge impact on physical security, there still is a segment of the security channel that requires more knowledge about how the cloud operates and, further, how they can incorporate it into their business offerings.  

With new competitors entering the home automation market, residential systems integrators need to work harder to attract and keep customers. 

 Over the centuries, humans’ knowledge of the “center of the universe” has evolved.  

The central stations listed on the following pages offer wholesale monitoring services to security companies that have subscribers under contract for monitoring and/or hosted and managed services, but do not operate their own central station.

In the past, video surveillance was looked at as a reactive solution, as in “I’ll go look at the tape” in the case of any event that required further scrutiny. 

In Star Trek, the Starship Enterprise is tasked with the mission to “boldly go where no man has gone before.” And while space may be the final frontier, for the integrator, designing for a large enterprise-level access control system is a bit like being on that aptly named starship. 

Security dealers will need to rethink their decisions about certain fire alarm notification appliances as the result of new code changes. 

The Eighth Annual CSAA International Central Station Excellence Awards were presented at an awards breakfast during ESX in June. The awards are co-sponsored by the Central Station Alarm Association and SDM.

Power over Ethernet (PoE) over coax started as an extension to PoE over UTP cables, but it has grown into much more. 

If you ask 12 different security people what “entry control” means, you will likely get 12 different answers.