Two recently introduced bills — Senate bills 1291 and 1292 — would create a separate set of licensing requirements in Michigan for IP-enabled security systems, and also circumvent existing statutes that are currently followed by BFAAM members and other providers, stated two industry associations.

A just-released report from IMS Research, Wellingborough, U.K., predicts that the security systems market in the Americas will grow at an average rate of 7 percent per year to more than $30 billion by 2016.

As many systems integrators may have noticed, the number of large-scale government and enterprise implementations isn’t what it used to be, which can make it difficult to compete in a market that’s growing more competitive all the time.

Where most people see a beach, Tim Chandler, with the help of video surveillance equipment, analytics and the cloud, sees a wealth of information — including data that can help coastal towns, environmental and government agencies, and beach goers make more informed decisions.

This presentation, which counts down the top 10 technologies believed to transform both physical and cyber security in the near future, was first made by the author at the Axis Communications A&E Technology Summit, held in February. As a member of the ASIS Physical Security Council, the author polled many of his fellow council members as well as IT professionals and asked them what they think the top 10 technologies are. He then formulated their answers into a presentation, from which the following article is adapted.

After a federal court ruled in favor of ADT and other alarm companies against a fire protection district in Illinois attempting to create a fire alarm monitoring monopoly, that fire district was issued a deadline of Oct. 4 to exit the alarm monitoring business.

One week after Tyco made its split into three independently-run companies official, the “new Tyco’s” management team came together at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate and ring the closing bell that signals the end of the day’s trading session.

Tyco Global Accounts, a provider of integrated security technologies and services, announced that the Tyco Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) received ISO 9001:2008 certification, a global standard that recognizes effective and efficient quality management systems.

The trend toward IP-based video surveillance is, by now, firmly established, according to the second quarter 2012 edition of the Security Industry Quarterly Research Report, published by the Security industry Association (SIA). The question is no longer whether IP-based equipment sales will overtake analog equipment sales, but when.

Over the past 18 months, dealers and integrators have witnessed the residential security market undergo a dramatic transformation with the entry of such well-known names as AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner.