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Since splitting from Honeywell, Resideo has released a new Security Source blog dedicated to the professional security dealer.

I was born when cars had fins, gasoline was 20 cents a gallon and the milkman filled your suburban front porch box with dairy products on a regular basis.

The University of Toronto is located in the downtown area of the city, so the campus has foot traffic from approximately 100,000 students and patrons every day. Ensuring the safety of its students is a tall order, and the responsibility falls on the university’s public safety unit — the campus police.

Is your website optimized for spoken queries? Speech recognition technology allows people to search the internet by saying terms aloud rather than typing them into a search field.

Time and time again my business partner is asked to fly around the country to speak with dealers and integrators about marketing topics.

This issue presents the annual SDM 100 Report (beginning on page 38), a ranking based on revenue of the largest security installation and monitoring providers.

Business customers’ security systems, particularly video systems, increasingly rely on networked connectivity. One sometimes overlooked benefit of networked systems is that the network can be used to essentially monitor itself and to report problems to the security dealer/integrator.

Athena Security and Al-Ameri International Trading announced today the Keep Mosques Safe initiative (KMS). As part of the partnership, Al-Ameri International Trading, along with recognized Islamic charities and foundations, will finance the installation of Athena’s AI-powered active shooter detection platform in mosques all over the world. 

Livingstone Partners, an investment banking firm, announced it has advised Hillard Heintze, a provider of strategic security risk management and investigation services, on its sale to Jensen Hughes, a portfolio company of Gryphon Investors. Livingstone acted as exclusive financial advisor to Hillard Heintze.

Mission 500, a 501c3 charitable organization born from the professional security industry to serve children and families in need across the U.S., raised over $145,000 at its tenth annual Security 5K/2K Run/Walk at this year’s ISC West show, April 9-12 in Las Vegas, Nev.