The Cancer Treatment Centers of America hospital in Phoenix, needed highly accurate, very early warning fire detection to protect its mission critical patient data and systems from smoke and fire. They chose the FAAST Fire Alarm Aspiration Sensing Technology® from System Sensor.

Take Willie Sutton’s advice. When the infamous robber was asked why he targeted banks, he said, “That’s where the money is.”

Rapid Response Monitoring, Syracuse, N.Y., is in the beginning stages of opening a new central station in the Western United States.

Phoenix, Ariz., the sixth largest city in the United States, has 1,097 intersections with traffic signals, and the number is growing. With 96 of these signalized intersections using closed circuit surveillance cameras installed to monitor traffic, VIVOTEK cameras account for 88 of the intersections with the completion of a project in October 2011.

OnSSI has introduced its Ocularis-X server software, which enables Web and mobile clients to access live and playback HD video streams from multiple megapixel cameras over limited-bandwidth networks such as 3G, 4G, broadband and the Internet.

At the heart of the 46 new products ASSA ABLOY is debuting at this year’s ISC West is Aperio, a wireless technology that connects multiple door or cabinet openings to an existing electronic access control system.

DVTEL has introduced TruWitness, an application that turns mobile smart phones into full-featured IP video surveillance cameras that stream video into the company’s Latitude Video Management System.

As time passes since Tuesday’s incident on a Las Vegas-bound JetBlue airplane, more details are emerging, and stories about more passengers’ heroic actions in subduing the erratic-acting pilot are coming to light.

During yesterday’s hour-long State of the Industry session, panelists provided insights on four pressing topics within the industry: “as a service,” consumerization, the emergence of security functions, and standards and interoperability.