Tag: Larry Folsom
TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard receives ANSI accreditation
January 31, 2023SSN Staff
MCLEAN, Va.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation that its TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard has received official ANSI accreditation.
Initiated in 2020, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems. The alarm scoring will assist law enforcement with resource allocation and Call-for-Service prioritization.
The standard is available...
TMA‐AVS‐01 Alarm Validation technical review period is now open
May 17, 2022SSN Staff
McLEAN, Va.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has opened a Preliminary Technical Review Period for its TMA‐AVS‐01 Alarm Validation Standard. Initiated in 2020, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems that will assist law enforcement with resource allocation and Call‐for‐Service prioritization.
The purpose of this optional review process is to allow interested...
Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response announces 2022 board members
December 6, 2021SSN Staff
FRESNO, Calif.—The Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR), an organization established to promote the value of verification and validation of alarm events during the emergency response process, recently announced the appointment of its new 2022 board members.
The 2022 term will be led by President David Holl, Director of Public Safety for Lower Allen Township, PA. Two Vice President positions have been added - one from the alarm industry, Mark McCall of Stanley Security,...
I-View Now improves MASterMind integration
October 17, 2018Spencer Ives
HENDERSON, Nev.—I-View Now, provider of a cloud-based video monitoring platforms for central stations, recently announced an updated and improved integration with monitoring center automation software platform partner MASterMind.
This updated integration improves signaling by utilizing a dedicated MASrecv I-View Now Receiver. Built in conjunction with MAS, these processes employ dedicated and proprietary signal types and signal formats which provide richer contextual information and video,...
Larry Folsom recognized with SIA award
October 17, 2018Spencer Ives
SILVER SPRING, Md.—SIA recently named Larry Folsom as this year's recipient of the Jay Hauhn Excellence in Partnerships Award, which recognizes security professionals who foster collaboration in the industry. The award will be presented at the SIA Honors Night on Nov. 14 in New York City.Folsom was deserving of this award for several reasons, Scott Schafer, SIA's chairman of the board, told Security Systems News. “He's passionate about the industry—that's one of the most important...
I-View Now announces new service
May 16, 2018Spencer Ives
I-View Now recently announced the launch of a new service: Police Alarm Portal. The process is powered by I-View Now's Software as a Service Video Verification platform, and will send video directly to authorized emergency responders through the ASAP to PSAP program. Additionally, I-View Now will provide the service to law enforcement free of charge.
In the announcement, I-View Now said that Police Alarm Portal helps the entire electronic security industry by improving the path of communications...
How does the cloud impact video surveillance?
February 7, 2018Spencer Ives
AUSTIN, Texas—Several professionals in video surveillance—bringing expertise in verification, data storage, consumer video and professional video—gathered here at Security Systems News' third annual Cloud+ to discuss how the cloud will impact camera technologies.
Larry Folsom, president of cloud-based verification platform provider I-View Now, led the session as its moderator. Brandon Reich, surveillance business leader for Pivot3, Leon Tan, head of Works with Nest partnerships...
I-View Now integrates with Nest cameras
November 1, 2017Spencer Ives
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Smart home company Nest, based here, recently announced a new partnership with I-View Now, bringing video verification into its cameras.“It's really about enabling professional security installers and dealers to start to be able to utilize the Nest brand in their business. There's a huge brand awareness when it comes to the Nest brand and the smart and connect home,” Gene LaNois, general manager for the professional channel at Nest, told Security Systems News."It...
SSN talks with I-View Now about recent Eagle Eye integration
July 19, 2017Spencer Ives
HENDERSON, Nev.—Recently, I-View Now announced a new integration with Eagle Eye Networks. I got the chance to catch up with I-View Now president Larry Folsom to hear a bit about this partnership and how it works.
“The I-View Now integration with Eagle Eye Networks is a cloud to cloud integration,” Folsom said in an email interview. “We appreciate the architecture in that it is a smart appliance that can be used with inexpensive or expensive cameras depending on the opportunity...
I-View Now partners with COPS Monitoring
April 12, 2017Spencer Ives
HENDERSON, Nev.—I-View Now, a cloud-based video platform company based here, recently announced new capabilities with COPS Monitoring, Bosch, Hikvision and OpenEye.“We're very excited. COPS Monitoring is a very large wholesaler, and by releasing [OmniView], they're now going into video verification and really what we describe as central station monitoring video services,” Larry Folsom, president of I-View Now, told Security Systems News.OmniView, a service branded by COPS, is powered...