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ACCESS CONTROL

4 Key Elements of Selling Door Activation Devices

Door activation devices are often the one thing end users see and use every day — so they’d better do their jobs well.
Karyn Hodgson
May 27, 2019

Access control discussions today often center around the latest and greatest features, new technologies, integrations and high tech options.


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Video Analytics: Mature Solution or Still-Developing Technology?

As solutions improve, integrators face decisions about when and how to deploy these technologies to provide additional benefits to their customers and generate all-important RMR.
Derek Rice
May 20, 2019

The early struggles of video analytics technologies to live up to over-inflated expectations are well documented.


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2019 SDM 100: Above Average

While many security dealers on the SDM 100 Report describe 2018 as an “average” year, the numbers show 5 percent growth in RMR and some peculiar market forces at work that may be shifting generalist dealers to become specialists.
Laura Stepanek
May 9, 2019

SDM 100 security dealers mutually tallied $655 million in RMR on December 31, 2018, on 12.6 million subscribers.


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State of the Market: Fire Alarms 2019

Technology advancements, updated codes and communication needs are driving the fire market forward, leading to a very bullish outlook for 2019 and beyond.
Karyn Hodgson
May 9, 2019

The U.S. fire market was steady and strong in 2018, with an equal or better outlook for 2019.


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Hosted & Managed Services

The Network Health Monitoring Win/Win

Monitoring the health of a business customer’s network helps ensure devices function properly. It also can simplify maintenance and may even generate recurring monthly revenue.
Joan Engebretson
May 6, 2019

Business customers’ security systems, particularly video systems, increasingly rely on networked connectivity. One sometimes overlooked benefit of networked systems is that the network can be used to essentially monitor itself and to report problems to the security dealer/integrator.


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MANAGEMENT

So You Want to Be a Project Manager?

Everything you need to know about one of the most complex jobs in the industry.
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Courtney Wolfe
April 29, 2019

If you have been working in security for a while now, you might be looking at project management as the next step in your career. And why shouldn’t you be?


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Podcast

Three Industry Insiders Talk Sustainability, Going Green on Earth Day

April 22, 2019

Can companies be both successful and environmentally conscious?


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Modernizing Fire Detection Devices

Sensors and alerting devices are gaining new capabilities.
Joan Engebretson
April 22, 2019

One area of life safety protection that is typically slow to change is fire protection.


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Optimize Your Security Program with an Intelligence Collection Plan (ICP)

April 16, 2019

With the U.S. economy firing on all cylinders at 3.5 percent growth in the third quarter, corporate profits over the past year have zoomed at a 10.3 percent pace — the fastest increase in six years.


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The Importance of Securing Sensitive Data in a 5G World

April 15, 2019

The pace of change within communications networks is happening at speeds not seen since the shift from circuit-switched networks to IP began a couple of decades ago.


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