Security integrators describe the 2018 market for integrated security systems as “strong,” “hot” and “accelerated” — all apt terms, given that the nation’s largest integrators grew their systems integration revenue by at least 14 percent last year.

Here are the latest industry innovations in this month's "Digital Shuffle".

The one constant is change. Verification, though an old term, continues to evolve in its meaning.

Miotta, formerly Mivatek, has unveiled its newest “Smarter Premises as a Service,” allowing global service providers to offer turnkey, RMR-based, smart home, enterprise, and care protection services.

Infusion Direct Marketing, a public relations firm specializing in the security industry, has launched a new corporate website...

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.

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.