The Monitoring Association (TMA) announced that Blue Ridge Monitoring – Anderson, SC has obtained the prestigious “TMA Five Diamond Monitoring Center” designation. This designation is granted annually to monitoring centers that satisfy all of the requirements of TMA’s five points of excellence.
Chester County, Penn., is the latest municipality to implement Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP), a technology designed to automate communication between alarm monitoring central stations and public safety dispatch/911 centers.
Per Mar Security Services received the Five Diamond Certification from The Monitoring Association again this year. Five Diamond Certification is granted to monitoring centers that meet the five points of excellence.
Video is the darling of the dealer-run or third party central station, and while it’s not new technology by any stretch of the imagination it’s a growing category offering innovative ways to bring sight, sound and detailed visual information and data to security monitoring.
This afternoon, at the annual NFPA Conference & Expo held in Las Vegas, members voted 304 to 128 to accept the updated language proposed for the 2019 Edition of NFPA 72.
The Newark Police Department has opened to the public feeds from dozens of closed-circuit cameras around the city. Police have asked viewers to assist the force by watching the video feeds and reporting anything suspicious, according to The New York Times and other news outlets.
In a case recently decided by the Supreme Court of New York, the issue was raised as to whether the plaintiff’s action was barred by the statute of limitations.
In September 2015, Montgomery became the first county in Texas to adopt Rave Mobile Safety’s Rave 911 Suite, which provides additional data and communications tools to 911.
Until now, U.S. law enforcement has used facial recognition primarily for comparing still photos with mugshots from a database — that is until the ACLU discovered that the Orlando Police Department is testing Amazon’s facial recognition system “Rekognition.”