Commercial and Systems Integrators

NAPERVILLE, Ill.—Stanley CSS is laying its cards on the table for all to see—customers and employees alike—with its new initiative, announced Sept. 29, called Performance Scorecard for Commercial Customers.
The scorecard measures Stanley’s performance on a number of metrics and is automatically issued monthly to each of Stanley’s commercial customers in North America and to the account executive responsible for the account.

CHICAGO—The increasing demand for integrators to be able to talk the talk with IT professionals prompted Schneider Electric to pursue Cisco Video Surveillance Authorized Technology Provider status for its integrators, the company announced on Sept. 29.

LANCASTER, Pa.— Select Security continued its shopping spree over the past few months, crisscrossing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania acquiring three companies, including two near Pittsburgh, marking the regional security company’s first foray into Western Pennsylvania.

The acquisitions add $1.5m in RMR and 3,100 new monitored accounts to Select Security’s rolls, “making it a grand total of 9,287 customers,” Patrick Egan, Select Security CEO told Security Systems News. 

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—When Kent Security was presented with a job providing access control for a police station located in a trendy Bell Harbor shopping center here, company CEO Gil Neuman thought it might be a good chance to try out some new technology from FST21, an Israeli biometrics/access control company that entered the US market late last year. Combining facial and other biometrics, the company provides access control points that are both quick with through-put and unobtrusive, while maintaining high security. Essentially, you walk through the space, maybe say a few words, and then you’re either allowed in or you’re not.