Tag: Tom Hruby
SEi adds new remote services division
March 2, 2016Martha Entwistle
Systems integrator SEi has moved to it new headquarters in Omaha, Neb. and launched a new Remote Services division, which will support SEi's growing managed services business.
SEi has "been doing managed access control for 30 years if not more," SEi EVP Tom Hruby said. But now it's doing more cloud hosting. With its managed access control business growing and its "hosted video seeing a huge uptick" there are more customer service questions too.
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Ten top integrators talk tech
January 29, 2016Martha Entwistle
YARMOUTH, Maine—For the second year in a row, Security Systems News has asked 10 top integrators which technology trends they believe integrators should be paying attention to and why. Again this year, cybersecurity and cloud were among those top trends, but several other technologies were identified including video and data analytics, big data.Executives from the following companies participated in this report: Extravision Video Technologies, Security Equipment Inc., Integrated Security Systems,...
SEI goes all IP
December 12, 2011Martha Entwistle
OMAHA, Neb.—Tom Hruby, EVP of Security Equipment Inc. here, says he hasn't sold an analog camera in about a year—SEI has gone all IP.“We believe the IP cameras are just higher quality, especially the megapixel cameras,” Hruby told Security Systems News. Plus, he doesn't want his customers “tied to a DVR or embedded box … in the long term IP cameras are a better investment than analog,” he said.“At some point the box [the DVR] is going to break down,”...