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Sonitrol Elects New National Dealers Association President & Officers

May 8, 2014

Sonitrol Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, a provider of verified electronic security for homes, schools and businesses, announced its dealers’ association’s newly elected officers at the Sonitrol National Dealers Association (SNDA) Annual Convention and Awards Banquet.

IESA to Be Featured on WGN TV

May 8, 2014

The Illinois Electronic Security Association (IESA) is scheduled to be featured on WGN TV’s mid-day newscast this Friday, May 9, “to discuss home security and to let viewers know that ours is a licensed industry,” said IESA Executive Director, Kevin Lehan.

State of the Market: Access Control 2014

Cloud-based services, integration with the hot video market, IT- and legacy-friendly options and more are expected to give integrators reason to celebrate in the 2014 access control market.

Heather Klotz-Young

April 24, 2014

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.

Convergence Makes Service Bundling Easier for New Players

Cable companies began bundling services for their customers at least a decade ago with TV, Internet and phone services to make their customers stickier

Carol Enman

April 24, 2014

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.

How Integrators Can Succeed at Commercial Energy Management

The access control card is the common thread to all of building integration, and the reason security systems integrators can be involved with energy management and gain expertise in these systems and applications.

Paul Strohm

April 24, 2014

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.

A Snapshot of Sustainability in the Security Industry: 2014

A snapshot of the security industry’s sustainability efforts reveals the many benefits of going green.

April 17, 2014

The time certainly is ripe for security industry businesses that are involved in sustainability. First movers are blazing a profitable path to the sustainable future and demonstrating the value of going green to companies that are preparing to dive into what will soon be the “new normal.”

ISC West 2014 a Record-Setter

April 10, 2014

If you thought the aisles and booths at last week’s ISC West were a little more crowded than usual, you were right. According to the Security Industry Association (SIA), which sponsored the show, ISC West 2014 saw record attendance of more than 26,000 security industry professionals during its April 2-4 run at the Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Golf Tournament Raises Funds, Awareness for AIREF

April 10, 2014

The 11th annual Alarm Industry Research and Educational Foundation (AIREF) Golf Classic, held just outside Las Vegas, may have taken place on April Fool’s Day, but with 111 industry professionals playing golf to raise money for an important cause, fools were in short supply.

The Emergence of 4K at ISC West

Derek Rice

April 8, 2014

It seemed that the biggest buzzword to come out of last week’s ISC West was 4K — just as it was the biggest buzzword to come out of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2012.