Tag: Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP)
Fourth Maryland ECC goes live with TMA’s Automated Secure Alarm Protocol
August 3, 2023SSN Staff
MCLEAN, Va.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) has announced that the Queen Anne’s County, Md., Emergency Services is the 131st Emergency Communications Center (ECC) in the United States to implement TMA’s Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP).
Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, TMA’s ASAP service is designed to increase the accuracy and efficiency of calls for service from alarm monitoring centers to Emergency Communication Centers. ...
Three ECCs go live with TMA’s Automated Secure Alarm Protocol
July 11, 2023SSN Staff
MCLEAN, Va.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) has welcomed three new Emergency Communications Centers (ECCs) into its Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP).
The Seattle Community Safety & Communications Center (CSCC) in Washington, the Bell County Communications Center in Texas, and the Crawford County Department of Public Safety in Pennsylvania are the 128th, 129th and 130th ECCs in the United States to implement the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol.
Launched...
Seven new ECCs go live with TMA’s Automated Secure Alarm Protocol
May 9, 2023SSN Staff
MCLEAN, Va.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) announced it has welcomed seven new Emergency Communications Centers (ECCs) to the list of its Automation Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP-to-PSAP) users in 2023. The latest additions bring the total nationwide total to 127.
Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, TMA’s ASAP service is designed to increase the accuracy and efficiency of calls for service from alarm companies to ECCs.
The seven new ECCs (in order by live...
New Hanover County ECC goes live with TMA’s Automated Secure Alarm Protocol
July 29, 2022SSN Staff
MCLEAN, Va.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) welcomed its 111th Emergency Communication Center (ECC) in the United States on Monday, July 25, 2022. The New Hanover County ECC in North Carolina became the 12th ECC in the state of North Carolina to implement the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP).
The New Hanover County ECC went live with Rapid Response Monitoring, Vector Security, Tyco (Johnson Controls), Stanley Security, Guardian Protection, Securitas, ADS, United Central...
Montgomery, Ala. goes live with ASAP with Vector Security's help
January 23, 2019SSN Staff
PITTSBURGH—Users of monitored home and business security alarms in Montgomery, Ala. will benefit from faster, more accurate emergency response as the city becomes the latest municipality to implement Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP), a technology designed to automate communication between alarm monitoring central stations and public safety dispatch/911 centers.
Vector Security, a full service security provider based here, assisted the city by helping to perform extensive testing prior...
MONI introduces ASAPer
February 8, 2017Spencer Ives
DALLAS—ASAPer, MONI Smart Security's latest monitoring offering, will allow alarm users and their emergency contacts to quickly communicate and determine the validity of an alarm.
“We really wanted to have a central communication hub whether the customer—the subscriber—could easily communicate with our monitoring facility, as well as communicate with their emergency contacts,” Grant Graham, MONI's director of monitoring operations, told Security Systems News....
Vivint latest big player to go ASAP
October 7, 2015Spencer Ives
PROVO, Utah—Vivint in late September started planning its ASAP to PSAP adoption.
“Vivint was told from this point it is typically four to six weeks before going live with the first PSAP,” Amy Becht, Vivint director of central stations, told Security Systems News. The ASAP program increases the speed and accuracy of transmitting alarm information by sending it digitally from the central station to the PSAP.
In the short term, the program does not affect much of Vivint's...
Guardian implements ASAP to PSAP in Richmond
August 27, 2014Leif Kothe
WARRENDALE, Pa.—When Jason Bradley was named director of central station operations for Guardian Protection Services in April, he said implementing the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol program would be high on the agenda. Just a few months into his tenure, that objective has been realized, with the company going live with the program in Richmond, Va., where the company has a strong account base.
It's a critical first step toward broader implementation in other PSAP-ready jurisdictions,...
NICE Systems launches PSAP tool
August 16, 2013SSN Staff
RA'ANANA, Israel—NICE Systems recently announced the launch of NICE Inform Version 6, which enables Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) to evaluate the quality of service delivered across an entire emergency incident, according to a company statement.
The solution offers value to public safety organizations by supporting the evaluation of single calls as well as complete incidents, including the processing of multimedia input, such as GIS, video and CAD screen.
This helps PSAPs...
More mobility for UCC with new central station automation
June 26, 2013Rich Miller
SAN ANTONIO—United Central Control is switching to SGS' Stages for its central station automation, giving UCC dealers expanded access to mobile applications and improving efficiencies to reduce alarm-processing errors, company officials told Security Systems News.
UCC President Teresa Gonzalez said the wholesale monitoring provider, based here, took two years to determine which automation software would be best for its 500 dealers.
“We needed to look at where we are headed with...