The ASAP to PSAP program has cleared the hurdle of being able to accept additional central stations, and is now focused on recruiting the 6,500 PSAPs across the country.
Fortem recently secured a $1.4 million investment from seven members of the Anges Quebec Group for its Omnipresence 3D security system, a 3D software-based security integration platform the company says is optimized to improve both public and private security.
Keep Your IP, Irvine, Calif., an internet IPv4 forwarding service designed exclusively for the alarm industry, announced a reseller agreement with COPS Monitoring (ISC East booth No. 271), a wholesale monitoring company.
Monitor America, a 25,000 square foot full-service central station located at Securewatch24’s new Fusion Centre facility in the Meadowlands area of New Jersey, was announced during the first day of ISC East as being fully operational.
General Dynamics selected ergonomic ViewPoint Consoles, scalable VisionFrame video walls and equipment rack systems from Middle Atlantic Products, Fairfield, N.J., for inclusion in its Information Technology Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) and Customer Integration Lab.
Securewatch 24 LLC, New York City, a security company and enterprise level integrator, is entering into the residential intrusion market with a twist to conventional wisdom — no long term monitoring contract.
The Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC), the False Alarm Reduction Association (FARA) and Installation Quality (IQ) Certification Program awarded HS Technology Group with the 2011 Police Dispatch Quality (PDQ).
To provide greater redundancy and strengthen the reliability of its network, wholesale alarm monitoring services provider C.O.P.S. Monitoring, Williamstown, N.J., has opened its fifth central station.
Under the sponsorship of SDM, the Education Committee of the Central Station Alarm Association sought to examine current and planned involvement of security central stations in different types of monitoring, with a special focus on video monitoring and PERS and senior monitoring. In those three areas in particular, the survey sought to understand the obstacles to more aggressive adoption. We also wanted to learn more about what could be done to help industry participants advance in these areas and make better business decisions about their level of involvement going forward.