Tag: AvantGuard Monitoring

OGDEN, Utah—Ogden-based AvantGuard (AG) announced the grand opening of their third monitoring center, strategically placed in Cedar City, Utah. "We chose Cedar City because of its highly educated and talented workforce. It's a beautiful community and they have truly rolled out the red carpet for us."  AG President Justin Bailey said. "We are currently serving over a million subscribers from Alaska to Puerto Rico, including residents, businesses, schools, hospitals.” The...

For Leif Boren, it’s all about finding joy in helping others. Boren, 31, is senior manager of dealer services for AvantGuard, a monitoring services provider based in Ogden, Utah. Originally from Vancouver, Washington, Boren is married to his best friend, Nichole, and they are parents to an “energetic” 3-year-old daughter, Edith. Boren has been with AvantGuard since 2014, starting as an operator and serving in other roles as a team supervisor, a trainer, operations manager,...

OGDEN, Utah—AvantGuard, a wholesale alarm monitoring provider based here, has started the process of opening a third central station location in Cedar City, Utah. Within the next two years, it will become a complete part of AvantGuard's redundancy infrastructure, further cementing the company's level of reliability while allowing it to scale with the rapid growth of its subscriber base.AvantGuard will follow the same plan of attack it used when opening its Rexburg, Idaho location. Using a temporary...

OGDEN, Utah—Last week, on Oct. 3, there was a test of the Presidential Alert system, which went out to televisions and radio as well as mobile phones. AvantGuard Monitoring, based here, noticed that there was a spike of false alarms—including glass break sensors and PERS button presses—linked to the test. “Oftentimes, [when] we see a spike in a certain kind of alarms, they're related to a storm or a localized natural disaster, and it generally affects a certain type of alarm...

YARMOUTH, Maine—In August and September large weather events—Hurricanes Harvey and Irma—made landfall in the United States; Security Systems News asked its readers how they prepare ahead of natural disasters, and what can be done for those affected.AvantGuard, a wholesale monitoring center headquartered in Utah, sends messaging out to its dealers ahead of a weather event, describing how the center will handle the upcoming storm, AvantGuard's marketing director Sonja Jorgensen wrote...

OGDEN, Utah—AvantGuard Monitoring is now offering dealers several new monitoring options, including redundant monitoring capabilities, providing the back end to local operators, and part-time monitoring for an account base.“Hybrid monitoring, in many ways, allows you to outsource the pieces of your monitoring that you may or may not want to do, whether it be the technology side or complete redundancy, and lean on a third party monitoring platform such as AvantGuard,” Justin Bailey,...

PARK CITY, Utah—Former NFL player and Hall-of-Famer Steve Young will be the keynote speaker for the 2015 PERS Summit, taking place here Sept. 29-Oct. 1, AvantGuard Monitoring announced June 2. Young will share the inspiration behind his success and meet with conference guests. Apart from his NFL career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the San Francisco '49ers, Young is a licensed attorney and managing director of Huntsman Global Capital. He also founded the Forever Young Foundation to provide...

Last week, AvantGuard's CEO, Josh Garner, told me a story. He had recently heard of a woman recovering from a fall, one who was set up with a traditional PERS unit. After hearing that it wouldn't work outside of the home, she hadn't left the house for 15 months, he said. After a dealer heard of this, he set her up with one of Securus' mPERS devices. “Eventually, she took a walk to the garden, then she walked down the street,” Garner told me. “She would test her device in all of...

Troy Iverson, 37Vice president sales and marketing, AvantGuard Monitoring, Ogden, UtahWhat inspired you to get into the security industry?I was great friends for many years with Josh Garner, CEO and president of AvantGuard Monitoring. When he purchased the company in 2007, he needed help growing the business. I was in sales in a separate industry, but he called me, said he needed some help and made an offer I couldn't refuse. That's how I got involved in security, and the last seven years have been...

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 details,...