The Security Industry Association (SIA) confirmed three new members to the SIA board of directors. The new board members were elected unanimously during SIA’s annual membership meeting that was held December 2012 at SIA’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Md.
B Safe Inc., Wilmington, Del., a 30-year-old regional provider of security and fire alarms to Del., N.J., and Pa. continued its rapid growth program with the acquisition of five local companies in 2012.
AT&T announced plans to commercially launch AT&T Digital Life in eight markets this March. The company began testing out its all-digital, wireless-based home security and automation service in Atlanta and Dallas during the summer of 2012 and is now getting ready to roll it out nationwide.
SIA will soon announce a committee of experts that will share its technical expertise with the administration and Congress as they work to adopt new school security initiatives.
Bosch Security Systems Inc. trained nearly 8,500 customers in North America in 2012 through its Security and Communications Training Academy — achieving more than 30 percent growth in the number of course participants over the previous year.
Bob Haskins, former president of Interlogix, will join Guardian in the newly created position of vice president of Strategic Planning and Business Development.
Digital Monitoring Products (DMP) released the XR150/350/550 Series panels. Their 32-bit processors operate at 20 times the speed of the DMP XR500 panel and 10/100 Ethernet auto-sensing ensures a fast network connection.