Tag: Alarm Validation Scoring (AVS-01)
Guardian Protection’s monitoring centers attain ANSI/TMA AVS-01 certification
November 14, 2025SSN Staff
WARRENDALE, Pa.—Guardian Protection has announced that its 24-hour monitoring centers have attained ANSI/TMA AVS-01 certification, a standard introduced in 2023 and currently held by fewer than 10 security monitoring centers in the U.S.
AVS-01 is a standardized scoring metric used to report unauthorized human activity - such as a burglary detected by an alarm system - to an emergency response agency. The scoring provides greater situational awareness to first responders and can be impactful...
The future of fire and life safety is in standardization, technology
May 9, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine — Fire and life safety, a $10 billion market in the U.S., is a critical component of the monitoring industry and standardization is a necessary step to improving emergency response, according to industry experts.
What’s at stake
The total indirect costs from fire exceed $30 billion dollars annually in the U.S. Residential building fires, alone, accounted for 344,600 incidents in 2023, according to the U.S. Fire Administration, resulting in 2,890 deaths,...
Brinks Home reaches ‘standardized framework’
March 31, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
DALLAS – Brinks Home announced that its monitoring centers have earned UL certification for Alarm Validation Scoring (AVS-01), giving them the ability to provide Emergency Communications Centers with clearer information.
Designed by The Monitoring Association, the AVS-01 is a framework for alarm validation scoring that provides ECCs with the information needed to accurately assess the severity of an alarm and pass that information to the appropriate authorities before they arrive on-site.
“The...