The new TMA ANSI standard is approaching publication and implementation.

Q&A with TMA Central Station Manager of the Year Runners-Up

SIAC’s efforts in building relationships with law enforcement agencies nationwide has included conducting more than 1,000 seminars. 

Wholesale monitoring executives discuss trends, technologies and services that dominant today’s monitoring ecosystem and where independent security dealers can find success. 

 Presence detection is the ability to identify or locate the existence of people in a specific area or physical space.

Private radio operations can be valuable for maintaining communications during cell network outages or in times when overburdened with too much traffic.

The service reduces processing time from minutes to seconds, leading to faster responses to emergencies and positive outcomes. 

Also known as Video Monitoring-as-a-Service (VMaaS) or remote guarding, the idea is to deter criminals via voice-down. Maybe video can even replace a traditional alarm system.

AVS-01 standardizes a classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems, helping law enforcement allocate resources and response prioritization. 

As monitoring companies take advantage of new video technology and grow their businesses to include video monitoring services, it is important to understand that there is a significant difference between installing a video system and a monitoring-ready video system.