Tag: Lou Fiore
TMA opens application period for Louis T. Fiore Scholarship
July 31, 2023SSN Staff
MCLEAN, Va.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) has announced that the application period for the inaugural Louis T. Fiore Electronic Communications Scholarship is now open.
The scholarship is open to anyone studying an electronics curriculum, specifically electronic communications, or software development related to electronic communications, regardless of financial need. Students seeking such a degree in electrical engineering or an associate degree in electronics at any nationally...
TMA honors Lou Fiore’s lifetime contribution with scholarship in his name
January 24, 2023SSN Staff
MCLEAN, Va.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) President Morgan Hertel recently announced the establishment of the Louis T. Fiore Electronic Communications Scholarship.
Hertel’s announcement came during the TMA General Business Meeting at the 2022 Annual Meeting on Marco Island, Fla., in October.
The scholarship honors Fiore’s enduring contribution to the alarm industry and the Alarm Industry Communications Committee (AICC) and is intended to promote careers in electronic...
AICC announces new leadership
July 7, 2022SSN Staff
MCLEAN, Va.—The Alarm Industry Communications Committee (AICC) recently announced that it has appointed Tiffany Galarza, Director of Telecommunications, ADT, and Sascha Kylau, Vice President, OneTel Security, as co-chairs of the Committee.
Galarza and Kylau assumed leadership of the Committee earlier in June following the resignation of its longtime Chair Lou Fiore.
The AICC is a committee of The Monitoring Association (TMA) comprised of representatives of TMA, the Electronic Security...
AICC opens annual survey
July 5, 2017Spencer Ives
The Alarm Industry Communications Committee recently opened its sixth annual communications survey, which asks about monitored accounts using POTS, VoIP digital dialers, as well as other technologies used for transmitting alarm data.
AICC started conducting the survey in 2012 because there was a lack of data on communication paths, according to AICC chair Lou Fiore. “The idea is to figure out what communications is in use, from the premises to a central station,” Fiore told Security...
Net neutrality ruling looks good so far, AICC says
March 11, 2015Amy Canfield
WASHINGTON—The recent FCC ruling on net neutrality appears to give security professionals a “level playing field,” but it remains to be seen if it will fully satisfy the industry, according to Lou Fiore, chairman of AICC.
“For the services we use on the open Internet, it's good news that our traffic will be unblocked and unthrottled; it won't be slowed down. It's mainly for video that we need the higher speeds,” Fiore told Security Systems News.
“The...
AICC takes on net neutrality, dropped signals
February 18, 2015Spencer Ives
CSAA recently posted on its site about the matter of net neutrality, as well as sending out a message from Alarm Industry Communications Committee chair Lou Fiore concerning the topic. Capitol Hill has�various items up for consideration on net neutrality, according to Fiore.
“Our goal at this point is simply to let Congress know we are here again and what our needs are as primarily small businesses. At some point legislation will move forward, probably as a rewrite of the Telecommunications...
SIA working group updates 'keystone' alarm standard
September 17, 2014Leif Kothe
To survive, adapt. Those words have become an industry maxim of late. A similar sentiment holds true for those in the standards writing arena who strive to stay current with the technological arc of the industry.
The CP-01 Working Group, a special group of the SIA Intrusion Subcommittee, this week unveiled a false alarm reduction standard that includes definitions for remote devices and updated language, stemming from requests for interpretation from the last update of the standard, completed in...
'Net neutrality' necessary for alarm signals
September 10, 2014Leif Kothe
WASHINGTON—Concerned about fair, reliable and accurate transmission of alarm data, the ESA and the Alarm Industry Communications Committee are urging the FCC to support net neutrality.
“To ensure the continued effectiveness of the alarm systems protecting millions of Americans, alarm data must be transmitted accurately and promptly from the end user premise to the central station along the entire communications path,” Lou Fiore, AICC chairman, wrote in a letter to the FCC.
Net...
Verified alarm? Definitions vary
March 5, 2014Leif Kothe
HENDERSON, Nev. and VIENNA, Va.—It's likely that a new comprehensive verification standard will surface sometime in 2014. The Central Station Alarm Association is in the process of developing such a standard for all manner of verified alarms, and the Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response, since its inception, has been gathering best practices toward that end.
What's less clear at this point is what the finished standard will look like.
While those involved in producing...
Is the 2G sunset causing outages?
September 27, 2013Leif Kothe
AT&T's 2012 announcement that it would phase out 2G service left most in the alarm industry, well, unfazed. With wireless technology, such changes come with the territory. Moreover, it's not the alarm industry but the mobile phone industry that dictates network “sunsets.” As Lou Fiore, Chairman of the Alarm Industry Communications Commission, put it in a recent conversation: “As long as you go cellular, there is no endgame here.”
A few months after the initial announcement,...