Securitas Electronic Security Inc. (SES) unveiled its new headquarters during a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house on the afternoon of Thursday, April 21, 2017.
HARDCAR Security, in cooperation with Sharp Robotics Business Development, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, will host an exclusive Lunch & Learn event to showcase the Sharp INTELLOS Automated Unmanned Ground Vehicle (A-UGV). The private event will be held Tuesday, April 25, from noon to 2:00 p.m. at the Miracle Springs Spa in Desert Hot Springs, Calif.
SentryNet, a provider of wholesale central station monitoring services, began its 30‐year journey in 1987 when the first alarm signal was received in its Greenville, Mississippi, monitoring center.
Vector Security Inc., an integrator of physical security solutions and ranked No. 8 on SDM’s Top Systems Integrators Report and SDM’s 2015 Dealer of the Year, announced the integration of two of its business divisions — the National Accounts Division (NAD) and their wholly owned subsidiary, Industry Retail Group (IRG) — to now operate under a single brand, Vector Security Networks.
As of March 16, 2017, The Monitoring Association (TMA) is the new name of the 67-year-old Central Station Alarm Association. The name change reflects an adjustment in mission and focus necessitated by growth and changes in the alarm monitoring industry (find out more about this decision in a Q-and-A with SDM and Elizabeth Lasko, TMA vice president of communications).
Police Protection, based in Charlotte, N.C., announced that security platform company Global Guardian, out of McLean, Va., is using its Cooperative Alarm Sharing Transmission (CAST) product and that a dozen large monitoring companies have agreed to pilot it.
Guardian Alarm announced it has closed on the sale of the company to U.S.-based investment firms Certares LP and Vanwall Holdings LLC, together with company management.