Security News Round-Up 9/02/22

Locations that do not require an activated alarm to be verified include gun shops, financial institutions, government owned property and pharmaceutical companies.

A new law cuts the number of nuisance alarms from 15 to five before alarm owners are placed on a false alarm registry list.

Alarms are among the most common calls for service to Bend Police, but over the past five years the vast majority of alarm activations have been false or did not result in a crime report.

The challenge that Allstate faced in entering this competitive space was how to effectively manage video signal traffic, known to cause much more frequent false and nuisance alarms, without disrupting the quality of service the company has always prided itself in providing to traditional monitoring customers.  

This is the first Latin American customer to take advantage of Calipsa's 93 percent false alarm reduction rate, according to the company. 

The Vaidio platform is an ideal solution for organizations that need to reduce false alerts from their security systems, reduce overhead associated with safety screening and security monitoring and accelerate real-time and forensic video search. 

Interface Security Systems, a managed service provider delivering business security, managed network, UCaaS and business intelligence solutions to distributed enterprises, announced that El Pollo Loco, one of the nation’s fastest growing restaurant chains that specializes in fire grilled chicken, is relying on Interface's managed video verified alarms and intrusion alarm monitoring to reliably detect intrusions and minimize false alarms.

False alarms have long troubled video monitoring stations. With stations in Lafayette and Baton Rouge, La. and Chicago, Ill., Acadian Monitoring Services did better than most in the industry, estimating only two of three alarms received were false.

This standard takes alarm verification and confirmation to the next level by defining multiple-attempt confirmation, biometric, audio and video confirmation.