Verizon’s new home security/home automation offering is new competition in the market but “probably not game changer,” experts say.

Wholesale monitoring study confirms industry growth By Martha Entwistle YARMOUTH, Maine—The security alarm industry has a vaunted history of recording revenue growth, year after year, through good times and bad. And then came 2009 and 2010. During the past two years, for the first time in recorded alarm industry history, revenues were down. However, according [...]

Exclusive Barnes Associates/SSN study finds growth leveling off By Martha Entwistle More than 15 percent of all alarm accounts sold in the United States in 2009 were generated by door-knocking, according to a study completed in August by Barnes Associates in collaboration with Security Systems News. Barnes Associates, an investment banking firm which specializes in [...]