Brandon Clyde started from the ground and worked his way up, building a local company that offered residential and commercial installations and monitoring, with a UL-listed central station.

Technology is ready for cable and telephone companies to offer more services to their customers now, because it is a panel that transmits signals that allows them to offer their intelligent home services — with security being one of the signals on that panel.

Inside and around homes, in homeowner vehicles and through diverse mobile devices, everything, if not everyone, is starting to talk among themselves.