Articles Tagged with ''alarm monitoring''

Reducing False Alarms with Audio as a Secondary Verification Source

Richard Brent

February 5, 2019

We must progressively act towards capturing sound, viewing audio as an equally essential component as video.

B465 Universal Dual Path Communicator

Eliminates Dedicated Phone Lines for Lower TCO

March 1, 2018

Helps enterprise security leaders keep pace with changing alarm communication technology while reducing the total cost of ownership for fire or intrusion alarm systems.

Evaluating Remote Guarding Options for Liability Reduction and Risk Mitigation

Jordan Lippel

April 25, 2017

For many security directors across the country, going to sleep with complete peace of mind is becoming harder to achieve.

How Remote Monitoring Adds Value from Afar

Remote monitoring services in intelligent buildings will continue to grow in usage during the next few years.

Ed Finkel

April 1, 2014

An engaged leadership team already understands the greater domain awareness provided by converged surveillance systems, but how about the next step toward robust risk management: cybersecurity and cyberspecific insurance?

Understanding the Consequences of Skipping Fire Suppression

Having smoke and fire detectors without fire suppression technology is like having video surveillance without alarm response.

November 5, 2013

A fire in 2013 that began in the attic of a Colorado sorority house burned for hours before anyone detected it, resulting in a million-dollar loss. Why? The three-story, wood-frame house had no fire detection system, and a sprinkler system covered the living spaces but not the attic.

9 Ongoing Trends for Surveillance Analytics

Bill Zalud

February 1, 2013

The video analytics drums are beating louder these days. But now may finally be the time when technology advances, security-and-beyond enterprise-centric applications, IT’s big data notion and smarter systems integration are trending to real, cost-effective benefits.

Thinking Beyond the Template

Joel Jensen

March 5, 2012

When’s the last time you reviewed the services that your security integrator is offering? If it’s been more than a year, or perhaps even a few months, I’m certain that you’ll find that there are more choices and greater flexibility in the deployment of those choices.

ON DEMAND: Business-impacting events such as severe weather, man-made disasters, and supply chain disruption are increasing in frequency and making impacts around the globe.

Employees don’t feel prepared to navigate an increasingly dangerous world, and they expect their employers to not only care about their personal safety, but to actively keep them safe.