Robblee’s Total Security Inc., a Washington state full-service, residential, commercial and industrial security company, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
Cemtrex Inc., a technology and manufacturing company, entered into an agreement to acquire ownership of approximately 46 percent of the outstanding common stock of Vicon Industries Inc., a New York-based provider of mission critical security and video surveillance systems.
B Safe Inc., a regional provider of security and fire alarms to Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, acquired substantially all the assets of Sure Guard Inc. in Paoli, Penn.
Following SIA’s research to develop the Security Megatrends — an annual research project that reports on the top trends reshaping the security industry — SIA and ISC West worked together to make sure those themes would be addressed at the 2018 event, particularly as part of the SIA Education@ISC lineup. The trends range from the booming growth of the IoT to more efficient ways to manage big data, and are described here.
Perennial Software confirmed it has been acquired by EverCommerce, a company out of Denver with a number of field service management companies in its portfolio.
Hikvision USA Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics and other emerging technologies, and a supplier of video surveillance products and solutions, was selected as the recipient of both Supplier of the Year 2017 and the Growth Award by its distributor partner The Edge Group.
Prince George’s County, Md., is 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.
Milestone Systems, an open platform company in networked video management software (VMS), concluded a series of regional partner and customers events for 2018 with MIPS (Milestone Integration Platform Symposium) in Las Vegas on February 21. The three events gathered 1,509 attendees and 90 exhibitors, and the theme was how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be the next market disruption for video technology. Milestone Systems also took the opportunity to award partners for their contributions to the community over the past year.
On March 23 President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, which, among other provisions, would reauthorize and restore funding for school safety grants administered by the U.S. Department of Justice — a major policy priority for the Security Industry Association (SIA) since 2008.
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