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

The 2022 program will offer multiple scholarships worth $10,000 each that SIA members and students can use toward professional development and education.

Motorola Solutions has acquired Videotech S.p.A., a global provider of ruggedized video security solutions based in Italy.

ADT Commercial, provider of commercial security, fire, life safety, and risk consulting services in the U.S., continues its strategic M&A strategy to expand its nationwide geographic footprint with today’s announcement that it has purchased Key-Rite Security, based out of Denver, Colo.

Full-service technologies provider LVC Companies has been recognized for service and sales with the Notifier Million Dollar Award.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) welcomed its 104th U.S.-based PSAP/Emergency Communication Center (ECC) to its ASAP-to-PSAP service on April 12, 2022. The Denver 9-1-1 Communications Center is the second agency in Colorado to implement ASAP-to-PSAP. Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, TMA’s ASAP service is designed to increase the accuracy and efficiency of calls for service from alarm companies to emergency communication centers (ECCs).

Founded in 2018, Actuate is an North American AI company building computer vision software that turns any security camera into an intruder- and threat-detecting smart camera, providing facilities with safer, cost-effective, end-to-end security automation.