National Monitoring Center (NMC) hired Kathleen Schraufnagel to join its executive team as central station manager for NMC’s Texas facility, describing the hire as “another key move to solidify its position as industry leader in the alarm monitoring industry.”
Digital Watchdog (DW) announced the release of a new app for Apple TV devices. The DW Site Viewer lets users view a Digital Watchdog surveillance system using an Apple TV. The new DW Site Viewer will be demonstrated at ISC West in Booth 17089.
RS2 Technologies LLC, a provider of access control systems, responding to continuing double-digit growth in sales of the company’s products, announced the formation of two new sales territories.
Per Mar Security Services, ranked 29 on the SDM 100 and 76 on the SDM Top Systems Integrators Repot, and based in Davenport, Iowa, has merged with Northern Wisconsin Security & Sound Inc. of Arbor Vitae, Wis.
Eagle Eye Networks Inc. announced that an independent 1,500 respondent survey on School Security Camera Systems found that 72 percent of U.S. adults favor using security cameras in schools, up 7 percentage points from the 65 percent of adults who supported using them in 2015. The detailed survey findings covered grade levels from preschool/daycare, elementary school, middle school, high school, through college.
Eagle Eye Networks Inc. has funded the Drako Cloud Security Grant for Schools for up to $1 million. Individual schools that are awarded the grant will receive a fully functional security camera system — including cloud management and recording, mobile phone remote access applications, cameras, networking equipment to connect IP cameras, and secure gateways to the cloud — at no cost for one year. Eligible schools include accreditedprivate and public schools in the United States: elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and colleges.
Hikvision USA, a North American provider of CCTV and IP video surveillance products, announced their support of Citizen Schools, a national nonprofit organization that partners with middle schools to expand the learning day for children in low-income communities.
PowerHouse Alliance distributor members will execute their respective training schedules for April with a widespread emphasis on home automation and control.