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San Jose, Calif. Drops Verified Response Program After Spike in Burglaries

January 25, 2019

San Jose, Calif. has become the 11th U.S. city to drop the controversial alarm management practice known as “verified response.”

EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

Beyond the Basics of Emergency & Mass Notification

Today’s mass notification and emergency communication systems go beyond the traditional to include many new ways of keeping people safe.

Karyn Hodgson

January 24, 2019

How do you define the difference between emergency communication and mass notification? It turns out the difference is not so cut and dried.

WHIRC Receives UL Listing for 24th Straight Year

January 23, 2019

WH International Response Center (WHIRC) recently received its Underwriter’s Laboratories (UL) listing as a central monitoring station for the 24th straight year, dating back to 1994.

Q&A With The Monitoring Association's Monitoring Center Manager of the Year

Carmelo Mosca of Affiliated Monitoring explains how to find — and keep — the right employees.

Courtney Wolfe

January 21, 2019

Carmelo Mosca has truly climbed the ranks of Affiliated Monitoring Inc., a Union, N.J.-based monitoring center.

SDM EXCLUSIVE

EMERgency24 Celebrates 50 Years of Firsts

Join us as SDM looks back on EMERgency24’s 50 years in the security industry, how it all began, and the company’s evolution into the 21st century.

Maggie Shein

January 21, 2019

On April 27, 1967, Dante Monteverde founded what is now EMERgency24 in Chicago.

Montgomery, Ala. Goes Live with ASAP for Faster, More Accurate Emergency Response

January 10, 2019

Users of monitored home and business security alarms in Montgomery, Ala. will benefit from faster, more accurate emergency response as the city becomes the latest municipality to implement Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP), a technology designed to automate communication between alarm monitoring central stations and public safety dispatch/911 centers.

ADT Acquires Advanced Cabling Systems

January 10, 2019

ADT Inc., a provider of monitored security and interactive home and business automation solutions in the United States and Canada, today announced the acquisition of Advanced Cabling Systems, a technology integration company in the mid-south.

Mark Matlock Joins Pro-Vigil as VP of Indirect Channel Revenue

January 8, 2019

Pro-Vigil, a global provider of video-based security solutions, announced today the appointment of Mark Matlock to the position of vice president of Indirect Channel Revenue.

ADT Unveils New Command & Control Security System at CES 2019

January 7, 2019

ADT Inc., a provider of monitored security and interactive home and business automation solutions in the United States and Canada, today announced the unveiling of its newly redesigned smart home security system — the ADT Command Panel & Control Platform (ADT Command) — as well as a suite of smart security and home automation products at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES).

Peter Stouffer Named VP of Acquisitions for Guardian Alarm

January 7, 2019

Guardian Alarm has named Peter J. Stouffer as its new vice president of acquisitions. The Michigan-based company’s expansion efforts encompass security services, monitoring, fire, life safety, medical monitoring, access control and video monitoring services.