Securing outdoor areas can pose many challenges for dealers and systems integrators. Not only must equipment be weatherproof; it also should have the ability to distinguish a human intruder from
Acquiring another alarm company can be a way for security dealers to quickly expand their customer base — assuming that customers stay with the new company after the deal is
Trans-Alarm, a subsidiary of Trans-American Security Services LLC is a 40-year-old company, based in Burnsville, Minn., initially focused on alarm systems. Twenty-five years ago, the company branched out into integrating
When alarm signals come in to a central monitoring station, it’s critical that central station operators handle those signals speedily and accurately. Central station automation software is the single greatest
Although they are sometimes viewed as a commodity, keypads often are the end user’s primary — or only — interface with their access control system. Recognizing this, security dealers should
ASG Security’s management team from left: Glenn Seaburg, vice president, IT and corporate services; Ralph Masino, CFO; Joe Nuccio, president and CEO; Bill Rose, vice president of operations; Bob Ryan,
Systems integrator Deterrent Technologies does a large volume of business out of two offices in Ocean, N.J. and New York, N.Y. About 70 percent of the company’s work involves integrating
Shawn Benson, CEO of Gilbert, Ariz.-based systems integrator Benson Systems attributes his company’s success to the broad range of products that it handles. He talked to SDM about the benefits
With their ability to communicate in data format over the Internet, alarm transmitters that use the Internet protocol (IP) represent the beginning of a future in security signaling, many people
Dan Moceri runs Convergint Technologies, a Schaumburg, Ill., based systems integrator that has completed several Homeland Security projects across the country. Moceri says that over the past 12 months, more