Tag: ETL
Automatic Systems' gates receive highest level of user safety
January 27, 2020SSN Staff
QUEBEC CITY—Automatic Systems, a manufacturer of pedestrian and vehicle entrance control access systems, announced that two of its automatic gates—the BLG 76 and BLG 77—have earned ETL listing to UL 325 standards. These newly redesigned, full height, automatic vertical life gates offer reliability and low cost of ownership while providing long-term access control to facilities perimeters.
“Automatic Systems is committed to meeting the growing industry gate safety standards...
CSAA may change name to 'The Monitoring Association'
May 18, 2016Spencer Ives
FORT WORTH, Texas—The Central Station Alarm Association may be renamed “The Monitoring Association,” if CSAA members approve the name change in a June 7 vote.
"The world is changing. Historically, central stations monitored electronic systems that detect burglar and life safety events. We now have a technology-based environment where just about anything can be connected, and thus monitored. ...�The proposed new name accommodates the expanding monitoring community," Jay Hauhn,...
UL, Intertek announce support for ASAP
November 22, 2011Rich Miller
CAMAS, Wash. and FAIRFIELD, N.J.—The monitoring industry's Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) got a big boost recently when Underwriters Laboratories and Intertek both announced that the new program meets the requirements of the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code (NFPA 72).
ASAP, developed by the Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) and the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, has been deployed in Houston, Richmond, Va., and York County, Va., with plans...
Video monitoring firm Westec goes the extra mile with UL
September 9, 2010SSN Staff
DALLAS—Westec Intelligent Surveillance, which earlier this year became one of the first interactive video surveillance companies to get behind new-to-security nationally recognized testing lab Intertek ETL, has taken the extra step of getting additional listings from UL, the company announced Sept. 1.
Why go through the time and expense to do both?
“This was not really part of a master plan. We certainly had the option to stop once we achieved the ETL listing, but we realized we were...