Fast programming allows the technician to quickly enter information without navigating all of the programming menus.

Mace Central Station, Cleveland, Ohio, announced a new partnership program with Videofied. Mace CS is offering Videofied Indoor monitoring for the basic monitoring rate on new indoor accounts.

Most residential and commercial models from Honeywell’s VISTA series of alarm panels now support lighting, shade and temperature control technology from Lutron Electronics, giving security and home-automation professionals a greater range of options when designing connected-home systems for their customers.

DSC, part of Tyco Security Products, introduced the PowerSeries 2-way wireless transceiver module TR5164-433, which transforms the hybrid PowerSeries alarm control panel into a wireless system and only requires hardwiring of the panel and receiver.

Next Level Security Systems has integrated its unified security management platform with intrusion solutions from Digital Monitoring Products (DMP).

Honeywell announced that its VISTA line of alarm panels are now equipped with 4G communication technology.

AES-IntelliNet (AES), a division of AES Corp., Peabody, Mass., announced a technology partnership with ipDatatel Inc. (IPD) of Sugar Land, Texas, to deliver integrated smartphone and Web-based interactive services integrated with its mesh radio communication subscribers.

As technology marches on, one of the “new normal” rules of the game is that while a product/device/software set might be cool today, pretty soon it is either obsolete or has died.