While Nexkey might be new to the security scene, the company has already made a name for itself, earning a coveted New Product Showcase Award from the Security Industry Association in the wireless access control device and peripheral category at ISC West last year.

This year’s CONNECT conference, held Oct. 24-26 in Phoenix, Ariz., marked a new beginning for Resideo, as it was the first the company has hosted independently since spinning off from Honeywell last year. The three-day-long event didn’t hesitate to send a strong message as to what Resideo’s focus will now be: playing to the strengths of its security dealers and other professionals in the HVAC, plumbing and electrical trades to bring seamlessly connected and easy-to-use smart home technologies to consumers. 

In April 2018, SDM published an article exploring to what extent unmanned systems would be used in the security industry. Oh how things have changed in just 19 months.

There appears to be a major issue of non-compliance with both the NFPA and UL codes by possibly every alarm panel manufacturer in the industry — despite being UL certified.

Interlogix, a provider of commercial and residential security, announced it will close its businesses in the U.S. and Canada after a “thorough portfolio review” of its security business. 

While REMO Security Doors has only been around for two and a half years, it’s already making headlines — just last week, the company was covered by FOX News, The New York Post and more for installing metal bullet-resistant security doors in a Jewish all-girls school in Brooklyn in the wake of so many mass shootings. And that’s just the first of more than 50 Jewish schools and synagogues in Brooklyn where REMO has door installation jobs lined up. 

The Electronic Security Association’s (ESA) executive committee of the board voted to restructure the association’s state chapter program at a board meeting Monday, June 3. 

Forget the Guardian Protection Services you think you know, because starting today, the brand has been made new, and is going simply by Guardian Protection — drop the Services. 

On Thursday, May 16, Guardian held the first ever company-wide town hall in its 69-year history to announce a brand refresh and reveal a new logo to its employees and their families and friends.

When the CrucialTrak team won the grand prize for Best New Product at the Security Industry Association’s New Product Showcase in 2017, they knew they had created something special: the world’s first 4-in-1 touchless multi-biometric reader.