Tag: EMERgency24
Emergency24 appoints Tom McNeil as VP of sales and marketing
December 13, 2022SSN Staff
DES PLAINES, Ill.—Alarm monitoring equipment provider Emergency24, announced it has hired Tom McNeil as its new vice president of sales and marketing.
McNeil brings more than 20 years of experience and knowledge of the monitoring sector to Emergency24. With his depth and breadth of experience in various sales leadership roles with multiple central stations, McNeil’s proven track record in sales and marketing and personal approach to helping alarm companies is anticipated to elevate...
EMERgency24 hires new VP of operations and administration
December 5, 2018Spencer Ives
EMERgency24, a network of wholesale monitoring centers headquartered in Des Plaines, Ill., recently named Steve Mayer its vice president of operations and administration. Mayer will replace long-time executive, Patrick Devereaux, who has retired but will remain with the company in an advisory role.
Prior to joining EMERgency24, Mayer served as the VP of operations for Cook's Direct, an Illinois-based distribution company. He has also worked in finance, operations, corporate real estate and...
EMERgency24 celebrates 50 years in business
September 17, 2018Spencer Ives
DES PLAINES, Ill.—EMERgency24, a wholesale monitoring company headquartered here, is now marking its 50th anniversary. Over those years the company has added on several locations, seen sweeping technological changes and grown steadily.Dante Monteverde Sr. started Alarmtronics Inc. in 1967, a company that installed alarm systems and monitored for itself and other companies, in Chicago. In April 1971, it changed its name to Emergency Data Computer Center Inc., coinciding with a new exclusive...
EMERgency24 offers 'filtered monitoring'
January 6, 2016Spencer Ives
DES PLAINES, Ill.—Offering “filtered monitoring” has helped third party central EMERgency24 expand its video options for dealers, according to Kevin Lehan, company PR manager.“Filtered monitoring places part of the responsibility of the decision to dispatch on the end user,” Lehan told Security Systems News. End users review video surveillance activity through their smartphone before sending it to central station operators,. This allows the building owner to weed out...
Monitoring stations with an edge: Earning dealer loyalty
August 26, 2015Kenneth Z. Chutchian
YARMOUTH, Maine—It's supposed to be a win-win when wholesale central monitoring stations want to manage, service or purchase accounts from alarm dealers. The dealer can acquire some capital. The central station builds its portfolio. This business relationship can be sweet, as when central stations offer perks to purchase accounts. Or it can go sour when the central station and the dealer, after an account transfer, wind up competing with each other for customers.
The only chance that...
Monitoring companies called to action at NFPA meeting
June 15, 2015Spencer Ives
CHICAGO—Alarm monitoring organizations, including CSAA and IESA, are rallying the industry to vote on two motions at the NFPA's annual meeting, scheduled to take place June 25.
“What's happening in Chicago is that some of these communities are operating their own monitoring centers. � This [motion would change the NFPA code and] enable that community to have an effective monopoly on alarm monitoring,” Kevin Lehan, executive director for the Illinois Electronic Security...
Monitoring companies called to action on NFPA vote
June 3, 2015Spencer Ives
The alarm monitoring industry is taking notice of the NFPA. There are two motions proposed for vote at NFPA's meeting this year that could have a serious impact on the industry. This pair of motions directly refers to the NFPA 72 Nation Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, which, in the current draft of the 2016 edition states that listed central stations can be used for fire alarm monitoring. A group based in northern Illinois opposes this language, and seeks to alter it, giving local municipalities...
EMERgency24 partners with first 'RERS' provider
May 13, 2015Spencer Ives
DES PLAINES, Ill.—EMERgency24, a monitoring center based here, partnered with BluePoint Alert Solutions, to offer a rapid emergency response systems (RERS): a new system capable of two-way communication between first responders and people inside a building under threat.EMERgency24 announced and showcased the products at ISC West. “[People] saw the value in it … how it is needed now, and how it could be applied immediately,” Pat Devereaux, EMERgency24 SVP, told Security Systems...
ISC West 2015—The daily monitoring report
April 13, 2015Spencer Ives
Friday, Day 3
The last day, like the first, started off with a great meeting at the media stage. This time I met George De Marco, ESX chair, and talked about how the different ways booths look to bring in visitors, everything from booth design to attractions.�
Then I headed into the show floor for a meeting with Cliff Dice, company president and CEO, and Carol Enman, Dice SVP for strategic business. We talked a lot about the reception of Dice's cloud-hosted central monitoring software...
Of integrators and ice buckets
August 27, 2014Martha Entwistle
Since we're coming up on the long weekend, and saying good bye to summer this week, I thought I'd go easy on mergers and acquisitions and prep for ASIS stuff, and instead use this space this week for a couple of videos you may be interested in.
Yup, it's more ALS ice bucket challenge videos. This time, starring folks from integration firms and central monitoring stations.
You may be getting tired of seeing everyone and her sister pouring buckets of ice over their heads, or you may...