Sonitrol launched a redesigned end-user site. In addition to the revamped look, the verified security company highlights record number of apprehensions — more than 178,800 and counting since 1977 — and a Gives Back program that highlights the company’s charitable police and school efforts throughout the country.

Midwest Alarm Services’ new website has responsive design that allows visitors to easily navigate the site and learn about Midwest Alarm Services’ integrated life safety solutions, including fire alarm design and engineering, inspections, fire extinguishers, alarm monitoring, wireless clocks, security systems, nurse call systems, area-of-refuge and mass notifications.

About five months ago I was taking out the trash to the alley cans behind the bunker in Bucktown when I spied a telephone company truck with a big roll of cable mounted on the back. I walked over and took a quick glance at the cable, which indicated that the cable was 144-count singlemode fiber optics.

With 1.6 million international visitors annually and a trove of precious NASA intellectual property, the Astronauts Memorial Foundation is highly sensitive to the need for top-level security.

Some folks may not know it but I started my own integration business, The Automation Link Inc. (TALI), in 1989 and put on the side of my van, “The Leader in Home Automation.” I was 20 years ahead of my time.

Three weeks ago, I was speaking to a large group of salespeople in a variety of different industries. I was asked about what salespeople should never do.

If we were to poll 100 security dealers about whether their business accepts referrals, all 100 would raise their hand with a big yes.

If you don’t think cyber security is an issue today you are dead wrong.

Recently, some research and anecdotal evidence have suggested a decline in the use of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ)  cameras compared with fixed megapixel cameras, which seems on its face to make sense.

Ainstein, a provider of radar sensing solutions, announced two new products in its Ultra Long Range UAV radar series, the Ultra Long Range Airborne (ULAB-D1) and Ultra Long Range Ground-Based (ULGB-D1) radars, capable of precise detection more than 1,000 meters away, according to the company.