Mace Central Station, Cleveland, Ohio, announced a new partnership program with Videofied. Mace CS is offering Videofied Indoor monitoring for the basic monitoring rate on new indoor accounts.

Atlanta-based Telguard, a provider of cellular alarm communications and interactive services, and 2GIG by Linear, the Carlsbad, Calif.-based developer of security and home automation systems, announced that Telguard’s HomeControl interactive solution for Go!Control panels is now available.

At a press briefing on the eve of ASIS 2013, Sony Electronics’ Security Systems Division and Next Level Security Systems revealed they are jointly launching an affordable, scalable cloud-based video surveillance solution: IPELA CLOUD Serviced by NextConnect Video.

The awards competition recognizes the security industry’s most innovative new products, services, and/or solutions. The 10 winners were recognized at the ASIS International 59th Annual Seminar and Exhibits (ASIS 2013), held in late September in Chicago.

In a move that surprised some, but delighted many industry professionals, Axis Communications, Chelmsford, Mass., announced it has entered the physical access control market with the introduction of its first network door controller: the open, IP-based AXIS A1001 Network Door Controller.

New Perimeter Surveillance Solution Uses Thermal Imaging With Analytics Portland, Ore.-based FLIR Systems used the setting of Chicago’s famous nightclub, Buddy Guy’s Legends, during ASIS 2013 to talk about the company’s new Site Protection Solution (SPS), which it said provides an extremely affordable video security solution for a wide range of applications.

AlarmSoft, Virginia Beach, Va., has launched its Central Works PRO. With the Central Works PRO, users can run a completely automated monitoring service requiring no 24-hour personnel, a fully manned central station using multiple PCs and operators, or anywhere in between. 

Systems integrators have been buzzing for months about the discontinuation of the old Casi-Rusco Picture Perfect access control system.

The newest company in the security space to get into the video surveillance as a service (VSaaS) business is Dallas-based Schneider Electric.