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PPVAR Board Discusses Progress at Virtual Mid-Year Meeting

June 10, 2020

The Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR) held its mid-year meeting virtually today, June 10, at 11 a.m. ET.

CHeKT Compliant With New Alarm Ordinances of Sandy Springs, Ga.

March 30, 2020

CHeKT announced that its Visual Monitoring platform and the Optex Bridge powered by CHeKT are wholly compliant with the Sandy Springs, Ga., False Alarm Reduction Program. The Sandy Springs, Ga., ordinance has been designed to reduce the number of false alarm dispatches. Unlike other municipal ordinances, the Sandy Springs ordinance fines are imposed on the alarm companies themselves.

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.

Video, Voice & Audio Alarm Verification: The 3 Wise 'Alarm' Monkeys of Security

Austin VanKirk

November 14, 2014

Don’t let the three wise monkeys fool you. Hearing, seeing and announcing danger is proving very useful to the industry. SDM looks at products that are helping detect and verify alarms using audio/visual technologies.

Monitronics Earns PDQ Award for False Alarm Reduction Strategies

June 26, 2014

Monitronics was awarded the 2013 Annual Police Dispatch Quality (PDQ) Award from the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) and the False Alarm Reduction Association (FARA) at the Electronic Security Expo’s 2014 Icebreaker Luncheon held on June 24, 2014 at The Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Defining Video Verification’s Future

Security, law enforcement, and insurance stakeholders discuss why video verification is critical to the industry’s future — and how it can bring all the different groups together.

November 14, 2013

Any form of verification of an alarm is good. When it is possible to determine accurately if an alarm is a real intrusion or event, as opposed to a false alarm, the effectiveness of a security system skyrockets, arrests occur, property is protected and the alarm industry’s relationships with law enforcement and insurance are strengthened.

FCU-5002-SFP+, its first 10G unmanaged media converter

TRIO OF PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS FALSE ALARMS

March 1, 2013

Aaxeon Technologies announced the FCU-5002-SFP+, its first 10G unmanaged media converter.

Phoenix Alarm Management Program Reduces False Alarm-Generating Accounts

September 1, 2012

According to the Security Industry Alarm Coalition, the latest statistics from Phoenix, show the city has one of the nation’s best and most effective alarm management programs. In 2011, 84.92 percent of Phoenix alarm users did not have any false alarms and the program recovered more than $2.8 million in costs to city, SIAC stated.

New Video System Delivers ROI to Automotive Dealership

October 17, 2011

The Lindsay Automotive Group has served the Washington, D.C. metro area since 1949. Three generations of Lindsays have been involved in the daily operations of the dealership family that now includes Lindsay Cadillac and Lindsay Lexus of Alexandria, Va.; Lindsay Ford of Wheaton, Md.; Lindsay Chevrolet, Saturn Service Center, and Isuzu Commercial Trucks of Woodbridge, Va.; Lindsay Volkswagen of Dulles in Sterling, Va.; and Lindsay Collision Center in Springfield, Va.

Security personnel monitoring via computer

Anthropomorphizing Alarms

Verification technologies, such as audio and video, lend sound and sight to traditional alarm systems and offer a way for security dealers to develop positive relationships with law enforcement and customers.

September 12, 2011

It is no secret that 75 to 80 percent of all alarms are caused by user error, according to the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) and, therefore, alarm verification procedures and technologies can greatly reduce the number of false dispatches. Many national and regional companies already have implemented Enhanced Call Verification (ECV) or two-call verification as a necessity due to verified response or non-response ordinances in the cities or areas they serve, and a growing number are implementing verification technologies such as video and audio to add a deeper level of verification.