Initiated in 2020, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems.

Mark McCall, director of global operations for Immix and chair of TMA's AVS-01 Standards Committee, explains key aspects of the new standard. 

As monitoring companies take advantage of new video technology and grow their businesses to include video monitoring services, it is important to understand that there is a significant difference between installing a video system and a monitoring-ready video system.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has opened a preliminary technical review period for its TMA‐AVS‐01 Alarm Validation Standard.