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Home » Authors » Bill Zalud

Bill Zalud

Bill is the Editor Emeritus of Security Magazine, and he can be reached at (773) 929-6859.

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Connected Home: Domestic Bliss or Distress?

Bill Zalud
June 16, 2016
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Call it a CX world ― that’s for customer experience. Or you can call it UX for user experience. Regardless, you must call it a goal for the business growth and success of the connected home and the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Save Lives with Mass Notification Solutions

A diversity of emergency communications and mass notification solutions can add a stronger voice to your business.
Bill Zalud
December 13, 2013
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Discussing audio communications and notification is another important chance for “dealers and integrators to have a conversation” with their clients, says Richard Conner, director of marketing, Fire-Lite Alarms, Northford, Conn.


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Is it Time for More RMR?

Bill Zalud
June 21, 2012
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It may be time to rewire the contractor/project business model with services that include recurring monthly revenue (RMR) beyond monitored security and equipment maintenance and service.
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VSaaS, Hosted Video Slowly Emerges; Aims First at Limited Cameras, Certain Verticals

Bill Zalud
June 19, 2012
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Emerging hosting approaches can include video surveillance as a service (VSaaS), remote viewing on mobile devices, virtual guarding, video verification, in the cloud solutions, remote storage and retrieval as well as fully outsourced management of a surveillance system.
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Green and Growing? A Closer Look at the Industry’s Green Opportunities

Bill Zalud
April 19, 2012
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Many electronic system contractors (ESC) often know green as motorized shades, LED lighting and home energy management and monitoring. Courtney Baker sees a bigger green. “These are major areas that the dealer/installer community can affect; but being green is a lot more than just saving energy. It is also about indoor air quality, water efficiency indoor and outdoor, material selection and generally being aware of how [a client’s] home ‘should’ work.”
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Integrators Can Bank On It

Bill Zalud
April 17, 2012
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Take Willie Sutton’s advice. When the infamous robber was asked why he targeted banks, he said, “That’s where the money is.”
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7 Ways to Drive Down Your Fleet Gas Bill

Bill Zalud
March 20, 2012
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Monte Guerrette estimates that his firm will face at least a 10 percent increase in its gas at the pump costs this year as compared to 2011. And that is a conservative guess when it comes to volatile gas prices, which go down and up, but mostly up, depending on geography, season, refinery problems, oil supply, world politics and speculators.

Ironically, “in this tight business economy, we have to more often drive longer distances to get business and service accounts,” points out Guerrette, senior project manager with Mid State Electric of Ocala, Fla.

So what’s an integrator to do these days to better manage his or her fleet fuel expenses? Here are seven ways numerous firms use and that can apply to fleets from a handful of vehicles to thousands.


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Coaxing More Out of Coax

Bill Zalud
February 16, 2012
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Keith Harrison uses MoCA to speed deployment and improve the profitability of his retrofit projects. Frank Montensinos and Rich Green both see value in MoCA for their residential businesses.
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Regulations for Integrators: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Bill Zalud
February 7, 2012
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It’s today’s spaghetti western. But, instead of the cut-and-dry of movie stars like Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach, rules and regulations that impact today’s system integrator cut myriad ways — there is some good in the bad, there is some bad in the good, and there can be beauty in the ugly — and all are seemingly ever-changing. Regulations can be cumbersome and expensive; some generate more business or higher profits for the integrator; there are reasonable and effective ones; some are unfair.
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Crystal Balling 2012: Part Two

Tactics to Squeeze More from the Future Now
Bill Zalud
January 19, 2012
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Just envision the business opportunities in the house of the future. You won’t find traditional furniture styles or old-fashioned appliances. Everything is ultra-modern, a blending of lifestyle and technology.
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