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

While at ISC West 2019, SDM editors Laura Stepanek, Karyn Hodgson, and Courtney Wolfe asked exhibitors three of the most pressing questions facing the industry today.

Unified security systems are one of the industry’s latest buzzwords. But beyond the hype, what do these types of systems offer the security integrator and, ultimately, the customer? Plenty, say the experts.

Doomsday didn’t happen. For all the concern many security dealers have shown in recent years — particularly about the rapidly changing residential market — all indicators seem to finally point to what was always the hope in the midst of the fear: that all the new entrants, technologies and business models would start to grow the pie for all.

Managed access control — as well as hosted access control — is an area many security integrators are showing a growing interest in exploring.

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

There has been a big shift in the security market in the past few years — both for commercial and residential systems.

Monitoring today doesn’t mean what it did a few short years ago.