Tag: Mark Hillenburg
ESA launches Leadership Identification and Nominating Committee (LINC)
January 25, 2022SSN Staff
DALLAS—How do you attract, collect, and mentor new board members? That was the question that led the Electronic Security Association (ESA) to launch the Leadership Identification and Nominating Committee (LINC).
Leadership identification is pivotal for the growth and sustainability of ESA and the electronic security industry in the near and long-term future. The voice of young, diverse and driven leaders in the electronic security and life safety industry is vital to the long-term viability...
DMP donates more than $112 million to non-profit organizations
January 10, 2022SSN Staff
SPRINGFIELD, Mo— Digital Monitoring Products (DMP), an independent manufacturer of innovative intrusion, fire, access control, network and cellular communication products, announced it has donated over $112 million and more than 10,000 hours of volunteer time to non-profit organizations since its Project100 initiative was launched in 2019.
Among the employees of DMP, generosity is important — so much so that it’s one of their company values. It has also been their motivating...
DMP releases Bluetooth and Proximity Reader for frictionless access control
May 3, 2021SSN Staff
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. —DMP (Digital Monitoring Products), an independent manufacturer of innovative intrusion, fire, access control, network and cellular communication products, announced the release of its SR3 Bluetooth & Proximity Reader.
The new Bluetooth solution was designed for use with existing 125 kHz cards or via a mobile credential that is easily and uniquely deployed within the DMP Virtual Keypad app.
“With this new Bluetooth solution, you’ve got frictionless...
DMP integrates with Digital Watchdog Spectrum IPVMS
April 14, 2020SSN Staff
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—DMP's partnership with Digital Watchdog (DW) is expanding with the integration between DW's Spectrum video management software and DMP's Virtual Keypad.
“Digital Watchdog is a respected leader in the industry, and we're pleased to expand our partnership,” Mark Hillenburg, vice president of DMP Marketing said in the announcement. “With the DW Spectrum integration, we're able to give our mutual customers a greater level of convenience than they've had before.”
DW...
Mark Hillenburg named to TMA Board of Directors
December 9, 2019SSN Staff
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) named Mark Hillenburg, executive director of marketing, DMP and long-time member of TMA Chairman of the Associate Members' Liaison Committee, formerly known as the Central Station Alarm Association.“It's an honor to chair this committee and serve as the voice of manufacturers and service providers who are members of the association,” Hillenburg said in the announcement. “It's important to recognize the needs and concerns of...
DMP dealers can now offer day-to-day monitoring
April 15, 2016Spencer Ives
LAS VEGAS—DMP introduced its new OnDemand Monitoring feature at its April 5 owners' forum.“What we've created is the ability for the consumer to enable communication to the central station, and disable communication to the central station, on demand,” Mark Hillenburg, executive director of marketing for DMP, told Security Systems News.The OnDemand Monitoring feature enables end users to define certain windows of time that they would like professional monitoring. Consumers use a...
FDNY approves network and cell communications for primary fire signaling
August 22, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
NEW YORK—For the first time, the City of New York Fire Department has approved the use of cellular and network communicators for primary fire alarm signaling to central stations—and Digital Monitoring Products is said to be the first manufacturer to win the approval for its network and cellular products.“As far as we know, we're the first to gain the approval,” Terry Shelton, director of product quality assurance for the Springfield, Mo.-based independent manufacturer, told...
Uplink, DMP offering 4G alarm communicators
April 20, 2012Rich Miller
LAS VEGAS—While asserting that 2G technology is still far from its predicted “sunset,” Uplink and DMP are both rolling out 4G cellular communicators to give alarm dealers the option of upgrading to accommodate new features and to extend the time between equipment swaps.Atlanta-based Uplink, a provider of wireless alarm communication products, and Springfield, Mo.-based DMP, a security and fire alarm product manufacturer, introduced their 4G communicators in March at ISC West, though...
DMP committed to reducing false dispatch
July 21, 2011Daniel Gelinas
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—Digital Monitoring Products on July 19 announced a new feature to its alarm panels that, according to VP of marketing Mark Hillenburg, displays the company's continuing dedication to reducing false dispatch, which ties up central station operators, can lead to end user fines, and wastes police resources and tax payer's money.
“DMP long ago recognized the need to provide end users with a simple way to reduce or eliminate false alarms,” DMP executive director of marketing,...
Does AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile threaten the industry?
March 24, 2011Daniel Gelinas
YARMOUTH, Maine—Ever since rumblings of a POTS sunset began last year, the security industry has been concerned with where a dependable communications pathway would come from. Most eyes have turned to broadband and GSM as two alternatives. With the March 20 announcement of AT&T's agreement to buy competitor T-Mobile for $39 billion, a new wrinkle to the communications pathway has been introduced with which the security industry must contend, assuming the acquisition passes muster with the SEC.
Wireless...