Tag: alarm monitoring
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety acquires CRIMPCO
February 23, 2024SSN Staff
ATLANTA – Pye-Barker Fire & Safety has acquired CRIMPCO, a security alarm and monitoring company based in Baltimore, Md.
Pye-Barker stated in a release that this addition increases its capability to provide full-service fire and life safety to Maryland and the broader Mid-Atlantic region, complementing its fire protection offerings in the area and widening its customer base.
CRIMPCO was founded in 1968 by a recent college graduate, Bob Jolson, selling businesses panic button systems....
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety acquires California-based Maximum Security
September 21, 2023SSN Staff
ATLANTA – Pye-Barker Fire & Safety has acquired Maximum Security, a security, alarms and fire detection company based in Palm Springs, Calif.
In addition to its recent acquisition in Palm Desert, Pye-Barker said that this has opened the larger Coachella Valley region to them. The company said that it already has significant market share in California, and these acquisitions are important milestones for the company as it continues its mission to be the full-service provider of choice for...
COPS Monitoring welcomes first K-9 assistant
February 28, 2023SSN Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, N.J. – Alarm monitoring service COPS Monitoring has welcomed its first K9 assistant, Kovu, into the workforce.
While there are roughly half a million service dogs at work in the United States alone, not every work environment is safe or hospitable for their “paw”-ticipation. However, at COPS Monitoring Kovu has found an ideal home.
“I can’t tell you just how pleased I am that COPS Monitoring is the perfect atmosphere for employees and their service...
Dynamark rolls out interactive chat platform
August 14, 2020SSN Staff
HAGERSTOWN, Md.—Dynamark Monitoring, Inc. launched Instant Connect platform, their newest solution in a growing lineup of features and an intuitive, user-friendly way for customers to interact with their alarm. Customers can group chat with their entire contact list, cancel or verify alarms, and even request service, all without the need to download an app.
“Our goal was to create a very intuitive interface that really improved and modernized the customer experience,” Trey...
SentryNet shares the credit
October 1, 2014Leif Kothe
When I spoke last month to SentryNet's Kurt Erdman and Alain Jamet, national sales manager and vice president of operations, respectively, both characterized their central station as an “activity hub” that would perform the dual task of promoting new technologies and keeping security professionals attuned to broader trends affecting the industry.
Given that approach, it's not surprising that the information the company blasts out often reads like a hybrid between a news release and, well,...
How Habitec reduces false alarms
September 24, 2014Leif Kothe
TOLEDO, Ohio—Habitec Security, a monitoring company headquartered here, continues to upgrade its robust false dispatch reduction strategy, and internal company metrics show those efforts are working.“We're now closing in on a 57-percent reduction in false dispatches,” John Smythe, president of Habitec Security, told Security Systems News.In 2012, when Habitec first put enhanced call verification in place, it realized a 20-percent reduction in false alarm dispatches. As part of its...
ASAP extended to non-charter members
September 3, 2014Leif Kothe
More companies will soon be able to reap the benefits of the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol, as the CSAA moves into its next stage of deployment by extending the program to non-charter members.
So far, the 100 CSAA members that have helped fund the program have been able to contract and connect to the system, which is designed to increase the efficiency and reliability of emergency electronic signals form central stations to Public Safety Answering Points, commonly known as PSAPs. In total, 42...
Security Electronics completes backyard account purchase
August 13, 2014Leif Kothe
Security Electronics, a home and business security company based in Muskego, Wis., near Milwaukee, recently purchased the accounts of Milwaukee Dynamic Security, a company headquartered on the north end of the Milwaukee metro area.
In a news release from the Davis Mergers and Acquisitions Group, which assisted Milwaukee Dynamic Security in the transaction, Don Larson, founder of Security Electronics, suggested the backyard account purchase will unite a pair of like-minded companies with similar regional...
AvantGuard dispatcher helps foil burglar
August 13, 2014SSN Staff
OGDEN, Utah—A dispatcher at AvantGuard helped stop a burglar from entering the home of a subscriber.
One night in July, a single mother and her two children were asleep when their burglar alarm sounded. The woman instinctively grabbed her children, deciding to hide with them in the bathroom.
Within seconds of receiving the alarm signal, Caitlin, an AvantGuard team member, called the woman and heard a frantic plea to dispatch police. After calling police and relaying the important critical...
Ascent Capital reaps rewards of acquisition
August 13, 2014SSN Staff
DALLAS—Boosted by the 2013 Security Networks acquisition, Ascent Capital, the holding company for Monitronics, a provider of home security alarm monitoring services based here, posted net revenue increases of 31.7 percent and 32.2 percent for the three and six months, respectively, ending June 30, according to a press release.
“The growth in subscriber accounts reflects the effects of the acquisition of Security Networks, as well as strong performance in the core account generation engine,”...