Tag: alarm

In the course of putting together the educational program for our new Cloud+ conference, I've been talking cloud almost every day and last week I met a new cloud provider called BluB0X. The company is new, but the folks behind BluB0X have been doing cloud for a long time--the executives and some of the team are the people who founded TouchCom. Remember Touchcom? It was acquired by G4S in 2008. Here's a story about that deal. I had a great conversation with BluB0X CEO Patrick Barry and COO Patrick...

HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C.—NationWide Digital Monitoring Co., a Freeport, N.Y.-based central station monitoring service, just extended its reach in the Southeast with the opening of a regional sales office here.The new branch will supplement the expansion of NationWide's dealer program, Security Doctors, which was launched in 2011 and continues to grow in the Southeast, making North Carolina a logical location choice. The sales office will serve as a locus for dealers in several states in the region,...

DETROIT—Intruders broke into the New Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church, and things seemed to be going according to plan until one of them answered a ringing phone. Unfortunately for them, the call was from the alarm company, according to an article from mlive.com, a Michigan digital news outlet. The alarm company called to ask why the alarm was triggered at 2:30 a.m. When the intruder provided an unsatisfactory answer and did not know the alarm code, the alarm company told him that the...

HOMEWOOD, Pa.—Authorities here said a home security system helped police catch a burglary suspect early Wednesday morning, according to an article from WXPI, a news station based in Pittsburgh. Officers were dispatched to a house just after 3 a.m. March 6 when the home's alarm system went off, according to the police report. The keypad informed the victim that the alarm's activation point was his garage. When he went to the garage, baseball bat and machete in hand, he saw the suspect with tools...

PATASKALA, Ohio—Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a central Ohio man who was killed after going to a rental property to check on a possible break-in, according to multiple news reports. Upon being alerted by his alarm company of a break-in at 7 a.m., property-owner Tom Miller rushed over to the storage barn. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Miller's wife, Orfelina Miller, heard three gunshots almost immediately afterward and later learned from police that her husband was dead....