Tag: Todd Smith
Honeywell to acquire US Digital Designs, Inc.
December 14, 2021SSN Staff
ATLANTA—Honeywell, a global manufacturer of security and automation solutions for residential and commercial applications, announced it has agreed to acquire privately held US Digital Designs, Inc., a Tempe, Ariz.-based company, for a purchase multiple of ~14X EBITDA in an all-cash transaction.
US Digital Designs delivers alerting and dispatch communications solutions, which enhance first responders’ efficacy and enable faster emergency response times. The company’s...
Cox expanding its home security/home automation reach
October 24, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
ATLANTA—After a successful trial of its home security/home automation offering in Arizona, Cox Communications is now expanding Cox Home Security to six other states.“The service will be available in the California, New England-Cleveland (Rhode Island, Connecticut and Ohio) and Oklahoma regions by mid-November,” Todd Smith, director of media relations for the cable company, told Security Systems News in an email interview. “And we plan to launch in Virginia by the end of the...
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Cox to expand home security
August 22, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
First, Cox Communications began trialing its new home security/home automation in Tucson, Ariz. last summer. Then, it expanded the service to customers in Phoenix this April. Now, the Atlanta-based cable company announced yesterday, the pilot project has been such a success that the company plans to launch Cox Home Security—which is professionally installed and monitored by a third-party provider the company has declined to name—to other markets later this year.
Where? That's still anybody's...
Cox launches home security in Phoenix
May 30, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
ATLANTA—Cox Communications has expanded the trial of its home security/home automation offering to Greater Phoenix. The expansion follows the success of a trial of Cox Home Security in Tucson, Ariz., which began last June, the company said.“We launched the initial trial in Tucson last summer and expanded that to include the Phoenix area in April. We've received good early feedback and results thus far,” Todd Smith, manager of public relations for Cox, based here, told Security Systems...
Cox at home with security in Arizona
December 21, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
MESA, Ariz.—Cox Communications, one of the largest cable entertainment and broadband service providers in the country, has been offering a home security/home automation product in Tucson, Ariz., since last summer, and expects to launch it in additional markets in the new year, a company spokesman said.“We're still going through the single-market launch and evaluating the product and the customer response and interest and sales … [and] we expect to continue in additional markets sometime...