B2B electronic security product provider, IPX360 Solutions Inc., based in Montreal, signed an agreement with U.K.-based CheckMySystems Ltd., a video surveillance health and operation monitoring software specialist, to act as its agent for CheckMyCCTV in North America.
Furniture and console systems have evolved to accommodate new technologies. Simpler, streamlined consoles are now possible because there are fewer appliances and more components are now hidden away (using racks) in an equipment room.
The new Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response (PPVAR) is pleased to announce that Anthony Canale, vice president of Verisk Crime Analytics, has joined its board of directors. Verisk Crime Analytics, a unit of Verisk Analytics, supports law enforcement with crime-related analytical tools that bridge the gap between the public and private sectors to provide value for the industries they serve.
Dynamark Security Centers partnered with Check Video to offer its dealer base new opportunities for product installations and ways to increase RMR. Check Video’s video surveillance and alarm verification solutions will now be available through First Action Security Team, the product division of Dynamark Security Centers.
Dealers and integrators, when asked in SDM’s Forecast Study how they would rate the potential for sales in 2013, ranked monitoring as their second-biggest growth area, only after video surveillance. Whether you operate your own central station or use the services of a third-party monitoring company, this annual special supplement of SDM — Monitoring TODAY — contains information that is relevant to your business: the monitoring of subscriber accounts.
Think outside the panel: Getting into interactive monitoring and related services can more easily lead to other revenue
January 30, 2013
Now that the elections and their TV ads are over with, you might notice that replacing those politicians are ads for interactive home services and monitoring. Homeowners can lock or unlock a front door of their home from a thousand miles away. They can receive and respond to alarms on a smartphone or look in through a camera to make sure Mikey came home from school or Rover is not tearing up the house. They can monitor and manage home appliances ranging from a complex HVAC system to a simple coffee pot.