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.
The general outlook across the industry is highly optimistic as dealers and manufacturers ride the wave of integrated technologies and consumer interest to more and more growth.
Here’s the good news: Not a single person interviewed for this article said business was flat or declined in 2016, or expected it to decline in 2017. In fact, many reported double-digit growth and a continued strong business outlook, both residentially and commercially.
It may look like magic, but transforming bare walls and empty space into an ergonomic, high-functioning control room takes serious logistics and design work.
This year the Central Station Alarm Association, a 67-year-old organization representing the interests of companies that operate monitoring centers, will change its name.
MONI Smart Security, a subsidiary of Ascent Capital Group Inc., announced a new Customer Bill of Rights to provide transparency into its communications commitment to customers, including consumer feedback mechanisms, contract policies and response times.
This March, CSAA plans to officially change its name to The Monitoring Association. SDM recently spoke with CSAA’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Elizabeth Lasko, about what the change means and how the association arrived at this juncture.
CSAA just completed the second event in our three-year “reimagining” of our annual meeting, and it was another win for the members who attended and for the association itself.
This year, Rapid Response Monitoring earned the top honor of Central Station of the Year from CSAA. The award was presented at ESX in Fort Worth, Texas, by Jeff Atkins and Morgan Hertel.