Arcules announced the addition of access control-as-a-service (ACaaS). Arcules now enables customers to centrally manage access control effectively across geographically dispersed business locations in a single, intuitive user interface.

It wasn’t hard to identify an overall “theme” to TEC 2019, held March 11-14 in Denver. Managed services was a dominant topic throughout the event, with multiple sessions covering different aspects — including how to approach it, finance it, train for it and profit from it. Of course there were also many education programs focusing on emerging technologies, critical issues in the industry, and tool development in a variety of disciplines including business management, sales and marketing, HR and recruiting, project management and operations, and installation and service.

The Security Industry Association (SIA) turned 50 this year, and it’s displaying 50 years of photos from its archives to celebrate.

Connected Technologies LLC released GeoView, a new feature that adds the power of Google Maps to its Connect ONE cloud-hosted security management platform. GeoView allows users to see status for all locations instantly in a wide-area satellite map and drill down into each location for real-time alarm, health and system monitoring and control. With GeoView, dealers can offer different levels of managed services while the end user easily interacts with the solution, making for a stickier offering with recurring monthly revenue.

Watch Brivo dealer, MDU Security Systems, speak about building a future with Brivo.

Using FBI crime data, Reviews.org has released its 2019 report on the 10 cities with the most and least amount of property crime per 1,000 people.

There’s no shortage of information coming into operations centers, and too often, it’s the quality of the data and the inability to correlate it quickly from independent sources that poses the greatest challenges.

On April 27, 1967, Dante Monteverde founded what is now EMERgency24 in Chicago.

For most monitoring centers, security operations centers (SOCs) and global security operations centers (GSOCs), the process of designing the space requires careful consideration of the organization’s needs, mission, space and culture.

Last year was a big one for security industry mergers and acquisitions. SDM counted at least seven major deals involving security dealers or integrators — as either buyers or sellers.