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Items Tagged with 'life safety'

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NMC Unveils New Website to Amplify the User Experience

March 1, 2021
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National Monitoring Center (NMC) recently unveiled its new website, designed to support its strategic goal to provide an exceptional experience to dealers and integrators.


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5-Minute Tech Quiz

Fire Alarm Control Panels

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Roy Pollack
February 5, 2021
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Columnist Roy Pollack challenges professionals to test their knowledge in the latest 5 Minute Tech quiz.


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Viking Phone Provides Hands-Free Communication

January 21, 2021
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The E-1600-RDA ADA Compliant emergency phone is designed to provide quick and reliable hands-free communication for any standard analog telephone line or analog phone system station port.


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FALSE ALARMS

Acadian Monitoring Reduces False Alarms by 99% With AI

False alarms were taking a toll on Acadian Monitoring’s central station employees, until they found the perfect solution.
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Courtney Wolfe
January 20, 2021
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False alarms have long troubled video monitoring stations. With stations in Lafayette and Baton Rouge, La. and Chicago, Ill., Acadian Monitoring Services did better than most in the industry, estimating only two of three alarms received were false.


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2020 Central Station Manager of the Year Jacqueline Brogan Leads With Honesty & Integrity

Jacqueline Brogan, 2020 Central Station Manager of the Year of Alarm Detection Systems, discusses how to communicate with your team to ensure a positive work environment.
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Amanda Reed
January 13, 2021
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Jacqueline Brogan, central station manager at Alarm Detection Systems in Aurora, Ill., is The Monitoring Association’s 2020 Central Station Manager of the Year for her work in leading a team of more than 20 operators. She first joined the team in 2012 as an operator, then became a customer service representative in 2015. She returned to the central station in 2019 to take on her current position.


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REDUNDANCY

Central Station Monitoring Redundancy

Peter P. Giacalone
January 6, 2021
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Central station redundancy and its significance is essential to understand. A select group have maintained redundancy over the years, although UL hasn’t mandated redundancy until recently.


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The Smart Home & Security

Thomas Nakatani
January 6, 2021
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Traditional security and the smart home are the same. There — I’ve said it. Our industry likes to see them as different, but for someone growing up now, without any preconceptions of alarm systems, they all just look like a lot of gadgets for the home.  So what does this mean for the smart home and traditional alarm monitoring?


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Navigating Generations of Changes in Alarm Communications

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Lou Fiore
January 6, 2021
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When I first entered the security industry in 1973, alarm communications were performed by Direct Wire, McCulloh and some high security applications using voice-grade telephone lines configured in “open window” and later “closed window” bridges.


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UL Helps Alarm Companies Maintain Compliance While Navigating the ‘New Normal’

Steve Schmit
January 6, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic presents numerous unprecedented challenges to the monitoring industry and those with a stake in the protection services it provides. Not the least of these is operating in a regulated environment, under standards that did not fully anticipate the impact of public health mitigations.


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Editor’s Angle

Editor's Note: Out of Crisis Comes Opportunity

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Courtney Wolfe
January 6, 2021
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At last, 2021 is here — I can’t be the only one happy to leave 2020 in the dust! The year brought so many changes to the business of monitoring, our heads haven’t stopped spinning. With the COVID-19 pandemic, and the unemployment numbers that unfortunately came along with it, providing peace of mind has never been more important.


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