Subscribe to Security Systems News - Top Stories

Top Stories

Universal Protection acquires guard-tracking technology

by: 
Martha Entwistle
  - 
05/16/2012
  | 
Commercial and Systems Integrators

SANTA ANA, Calif.— Universal Protection, a $500 million guard company that also does security installation, on April 2 acquired Heritage Security Services of San Diego. It also acquired a guard-tracking technology that its CEO says is "game-changing."

Going video: New partnership links alarm industry, police, insurers

Group promotes more arrests, fewer claims through priority video response
 by: 
Rich Miller
  - 
05/16/2012
  | 
Monitoring

ST. PAUL, Minn.—What may have seemed like a pipe dream to many in the security industry a few years ago—getting alarm companies and law enforcement to work together, then adding the insurance industry to the alliance—is now reality with the Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response.

AT&T ‘bullish’ on security

The company says it’s poised to not only compete in the home security/home automation market, but grow it too
 by: 
Tess Nacelewicz
  - 
05/16/2012
  | 
Residential

DALLAS—AT&T isn’t just entering the security space with trials here and in Atlanta this summer of its home security/home automation service. The telecom also believes it will be able to transform that space through such innovations as letting customers try out its new Digital Life product in its more than 2,000 retail stores around the country, an AT&T executive told Security Systems News.

Netwatch open for business in U.S.

Global monitoring company aims to tap pool of college grads in Boston
 by: 
Rich Miller
  - 
05/16/2012
  | 
Monitoring

MEDFORD, Mass.—Netwatch, an international monitoring company that uses remote video detection and personalized audio warnings to thwart would-be burglars, has expanded to North America by opening an office here.

Determining intelligibility of emergency messages—not so simple anymore

by: 
Tess Nacelewicz
  - 
05/16/2012
  | 
Fire Systems Installation

BURLINGTON, Mass.—The traditional way of deciding whether an emergency message is intelligible is pretty simple, but now technology and other factors are making determining intelligibility more complex, according to a fire protection engineer at a recent emergency management seminar here.

Monitoring

Residential Systems

Suppliers

Commercial & Systems Integrators

Fire Systems Installation

General News

Poll

SSN Newspoll June 2012

Security Systems News recently wrote about new changes in the 2013 edition of NFPA 72, the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, that are designed to make life easier for dealers, installers and others. The changes will be voted on at the NFPA Conference & Expo, to be held in Las Vegas June 11-14. Please tell us your thoughts about the code:

Latest Premium Headlines

Subscribe for premium content!