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 When digital dialer communicators became popular, NAPCO was one of the first manufacturers to integrate the digital dialer with a multi-zone control panel, and brought out the CCI6, which I believe was a four- or six-zone control with a built-in communicator. 

Your business plan rules how competitive you are, which adds to your value. It speaks to how rapidly you are growing and in what market sectors, and it points to who is most likely to be interested in your business when you’re ready to sell.

In this year’s market, growth is coming from newer technologies including emergency communications systems (ECS) and mass notification systems (MNS), carbon monoxide (CO) products and legislation, Internet protocol (IP) and wireless options.

SDM 100 dealers as well as throughout the industry, routine security installations as well as more complex projects like these are signs of success for the industry and progress towards a more secure America.

Someone once suggested that to get an invitation to a party you really wanted to attend you should offer to contribute something to the party. If the video market’s predicted strong year in 2014 is the kind of “party” access control is hoping to attend, then the market has tapped into that principle, contributing a strong argument for security systems that integrate both video and access control.

Technology is ready for cable and telephone companies to offer more services to their customers now, because it is a panel that transmits signals that allows them to offer their intelligent home services — with security being one of the signals on that panel.

Expanding your service offering to include commercial energy management is no small undertaking. While it may seem the two industries are very similar, with inputs, outputs, control points and data gathering, that is where the similarities end.