TycoIS acquired Carter Brothers’ Fire and Life Safety business. Carter Brothers will transfer the commercial security portion of its business to an affiliate of Carter Brothers.
As many systems integrators may have noticed, the number of large-scale government and enterprise implementations isn’t what it used to be, which can make it difficult to compete in a market that’s growing more competitive all the time.
Systems integration and project management company G4S Technology (formerly Adesta), Omaha, Neb., has won a contract to provide security system upgrades for the Washington State Department of Transportation Ferries Division.
The first step was a name change to distinguish ADT’s residential and commercial business sides, but the biggest change came yesterday when Tyco Integrated Security (TIS) shed its ADT roots altogether as part of parent company Tyco International’s split into three separate, publicly traded companies.
Now integrators can fork-lift IP device upgrades without pulling new cable, thanks to new technologies that use coax cables for IP and PoE transmission.
Arecent groundswell in the development of coax-based Ethernet and Power over Ethernet (PoE) transceivers is providing a revolutionary opportunity for security integrators. These devices provide a simple way to upgrade and update video surveillance, access control, intercom and other system types by connecting the latest in IP-enabled devices to coax cables that were previously installed within the past 20 years.
At next week’s ASIS International 58th Annual Seminar and Exhibits, attendees will once again have a wide variety of educational, networking and information-gathering opportunities, including the Integrator Series, as well as a reason to celebrate.
Brivo Systems LLC, a provider of cloud applications for security management, announced that it entered into a new partnership agreement with Integrator Support. Integrator Support is a provider of wholesale security services to the premier systems integration community.
Honeywell announced that global security integrator Stanley Security, was named the 2011 recipient of the Honeywell Integrated Security President’s Award.
