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Items Tagged with 'security alarm industry'

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Security Dealers' Biggest Installation Challenges

Dealers share a few challenges they’ve faced installing and servicing commercial alarms this year, and how they overcame them.
Tim A. Scally
December 18, 2017
From historic buildings to multi-tenant buildings to a neighborhood accounting firm, security dealers encounter unique challenges every day.
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Book Recommendations From the Security Industry

Check out these books, written by professionals in the security industry, and add them to your fall reading list.
Laura Stepanek
August 2, 2016

Lately I’ve been exposed to several books, which have been published over the past year or so, about some unique aspect of security — I wanted to share them with you.


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Reminiscing On 25 Years Of The SDM 100

Laura Stepanek
May 13, 2016

It’s used in many different ways by different people, but the primary objective of the SDM 100 remains the same after 25 years: to measure consumer dollars gained by alarm companies, in order to present an account of the size of the market captured by the 100 largest security providers.


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Ron Petrarca Elected as Newest Member of IQ Board

April 26, 2016

The IQ Certification Board recently elected Ron Petrarca, operations director of Huntington, N.Y.-based Electronix Systems Central Station Alarms Inc. as the newest member to join the board. He will serve a two-year term.


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Members Votes to Amend Proposed NFPA 72 Language

Tim A. Scally
July 2, 2015

On June 25, 2015, a vote about proposed language in the 2016 edition of NFPA 72 took place at the NFPA meeting in Chicago. A motion passed by a 142 to 80 margin to modify a proposed sentence.


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Habitec Security Wins 2014 Police Dispatch Quality Award

June 30, 2015

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.


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Alarm Industry’s History to Be Depicted on Smithsonian Channel This Sunday

June 24, 2015
This Sunday, June 28, on the Smithsonian Channel’s program, My Million Dollar Invention, the history of the alarm industry will be covered from Edwin Holmes onward.
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SAFE Collects on West Virginia Judgment

Maya Dollarhide
April 2, 2015
A dispute which began in February 2004 between Security Alarm Financing Enterprises Inc. (SAFE), San Ramon, Calif., and the former Secure US Inc., Morgantown, W.V., concluded, with all of the former assets of Secure US being sold to satisfy SAFE’s more than $1 million judgment.
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Are DIY & MIY Heralding ‘Alarmageddon’?

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Rob Baxter
January 4, 2015

In this era of do-it-yourself and monitor-it-yourself security, central stations must deliver more than deterrence to stay relevant to consumers.


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Edmonds Group Arranges $30 Million Subprime Account Purchase Program

The Edmonds Group announced the initial closing under a $30 million program to purchase subprime security alarm accounts from a large national alarm company.
May 20, 2014

The buyer, a large alternate asset investing firm, will buy accounts with low credit scores and accounts with no credit score available. The seller will enter into a long term agreement with the buyer to provide monitoring, billing and onsite service for the purchased customers. Neither party wished to be identified, according to The Edmonds Group.


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