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Genetec Inc., a technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations and business intelligence, shared its top five predictions for the physical security industry in 2020.

Nine years after its 2011 launch, The Monitoring Association’s (TMA) Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) service is slowly — but surely — creeping into monitoring centers everywhere.

SureView Systems, a provider of physical security software automation, has developed a new API that will allow AI technology to seamlessly integrate to its Immix software suite to reduce the number of false or nuisance alarms that hit a central station operator queue.

National Monitoring Center (NMC) announced the hire of Mark Matlock as vice president of sales.

This year at TMA’s annual meeting in Napa Valley, I led a panel on telecommunication opportunities available through leveraging modern technologies while holding on and winding down older technologies to support legacy systems and communications.

The electronic security industry’s national business is subject to regulation by 18,000 local public safety agencies and the government bodies that provide oversight to their activities.

For the last eight years The Monitoring Association’s Alarm Industry Communications Committee (AICC) has been running an annual communications survey.

COPS Monitoring, a provider of wholesale professional alarm monitoring services in North America, announced the migration of its Generations monitoring software platform to jBASE from ZumaSys.

ADT Inc. just announced that it acquired Defenders, its largest independent dealer and only authorized premier provider, for a purchase price of approximately $381 million (based on ADT’s closing stock price of $7.45 on January 3, 2020).

Kirk MacDowell, an executive with a 39-year career in the electronic security industry, has been selected as the new chairman of the board for the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC). SIAC is the industry’s liaison with law enforcement for dispatch reduction and alarm management issues. SIAC’s model alarm ordinance, developed in conjunction with national law enforcement leaders, is being adopted nationwide.