Tyco SimplexGrinnell received the Internet of Things (IoT) Innovator of the Year Award for 2014 from Axeda Corporation. The award recognizes the company for excellence in leveraging advanced Internet-connected technology to deliver smart eService fire alarm solutions that improve service delivery and provide significant value to customers. 

HID Global® and Chapman University announced a collaboration that gives Chapman University MBA students access to HID Trusted Tag Services™.  The program is aimed at challenging the students to identify key market opportunities and develop an action plan to expand the influence of its HID Trusted Tag Services™, beyond the company’s proven Electronic Visitor Verification (EVV) and Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) use cases, within the Internet of Things (IoT) space.

Bulldog Security Services, Inc. of Dacula, GA, has announced the sale of its accounts to Alarm Capital Alliance  (ACA) of Newtown Square, PA.  

 ADI announced the availability of IP-based access control solutions from ProdataKey. These products operate on a long range Wireless Mesh Access Control (WiMac^TM) platform to create a powerful network that saves time and money by eliminating the need for long cable runs and trenching. Dealers across North America now have access to the ProdataKey IP-based access control solutions. 

Vanderbilt Industries, an innovator of access control solutions, announced that three proven veterans of the security industry have recently joined the company—Brian Mathieu, Jennifer Martin, and Christopher Burton.

 G4S Technology, SDM Magazine’s 2013 Integrator of the Year and a developer in the design and construction of high performance broadband networks and reliable electronic security systems, has entered into a master services agreement with Cox Enterprises. The agreement includes nationwide systems integration, new product installation, and systems maintenance services. The agreement encompasses all Cox Enterprise subsidiary business units in the 39 states where the company operates. G4S Technology will also embed technical staffing in key locations. 

 Bermuda is a beautiful setting, but not just for vacationing. In October, the members of CSAA International, the voice for central station monitoring companies, will converge on the British overseas territory for five days of learning and planning that will drive the direction of the association and address the challenges to the security monitoring industry. 

 Security Partners, a national monitoring company with three central stations across the United States, has partnered with PSA Security Network as part of its Business Solutions Program, which offers a suite of exclusive value-added resources for its owner members. 

 Honeywell welcomed The Mercury Group as a Honeywell Authorized Dealer for Commercial Security Systems (CSS). For more than 36 years, the company’s three divisions — security, electrical and voice and data — have provided clean power, structured cabling for voice and data systems, electrical efficiency lighting, security and access control services to customers in Connecticut. 

 Guardian Protection Services of Warrendale, Pa. recently achieved the successful implementation of ASAP-to-PSAP processing protocol for the communication of alarm information to the City of Richmond, Virginia.  The protocol went live after successful data transmissions between Guardian’s U.L. certified CSAA Five Diamond monitoring center and the City of Richmond’s 9-1-1 center.