The study examined four communities that had adopted the Model Alarm Ordinance, developed by the Security Industry Alarm Coalition in association with industry and leaders in law enforcement.

The city, located about 35 miles east of San Francisco, will also require residents and businesses to register their alarm systems. 

Residents and business owners can now be assessed increasing fines based on how many false alarms they incur.

Parks Associates finds 62 percent of security owners report their system triggered at least one false alarm in the past 12 months. 

Calipsa, a provider of deep-learning powered video analytics for false alarm reduction, has announced the integration of its false alarm filtering platform with Tether Technology. 

Calipsa and Immix are bringing their AI Video Alarm Verification solution to central alarm monitoring stations in the Americas. 

The Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR) held its mid-year meeting virtually today, June 10, at 11 a.m. ET.

CHeKT announced that its Visual Monitoring platform and the Optex Bridge powered by CHeKT are wholly compliant with the Sandy Springs, Ga., False Alarm Reduction Program. The Sandy Springs, Ga., ordinance has been designed to reduce the number of false alarm dispatches. Unlike other municipal ordinances, the Sandy Springs ordinance fines are imposed on the alarm companies themselves.

The Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) awarded the 2014 Police Dispatch Quality Award to Habitec Security at the Public Safety and Networking luncheon at ESX in Baltimore on June 24.

 Don’t let the three wise monkeys fool you. Hearing, seeing and announcing danger is proving very useful to the industry. SDM looks at products that are helping detect and verify alarms using audio/visual technologies.