As director for commercial product strategy for ADT, Nick Samanich is involved in developing service offerings. Increasingly those offerings incorporate various levels of integration. Samanich spoke with SDM recently about
Right now is one of the best times to sell an alarm company that the industry has seen in recent years. After a period of declining values in the early
As security systems have become more complete, and with systems that integrate video surveillance, access control and intrusion protection on the rise, the need for skilled technicians and project managers
SecurityNet, created in 1993, is an organization of independent systems integrators, primarily North America-based, but also with several international members. The organization’s 16 members collaborate in serving large businesses and
Security integrators who work – or would like to work – with the federal government should familiarize themselves with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201, if they haven’t already.
Bill Jackson takes the helm of DMP.Digital Monitoring Products’ newly appointed president and chief operating officer, William E. (“Billâ€) Jackson, points to nuisance and false alarm dispatch concerns as some
Designing and installing whole-house audio systems can be a good fit for an alarm company because the skill sets required for both types of installations are quite similar. But in
As security integrators put together increasingly complex systems for their customers, they often are called upon to develop custom applications. For example, a large business customer might want to have
Doug ValenskiBusinesses with multiple locations now have a new choice for their video surveillance and intrusion protection needs. In May, residential alarm giant Brink’s Home Security of Irving, Texas, launched
Every commercial customer of Smart Interactive Systems, such as this automobile dealership, is monitored using an IP transmitter and broadband connection in order to support the video portion of the