It’s known as many things. The “home of the future,” “connected home,” “smart home,” “automated home,” and the like, all defined with unique aspects by companies, but all with one cohesive trait...to stay connected.
- By Judy Jones-Shand
- Nov 01, 2014
When asked about the biggest challenge facing security system dealers/integrators, an overwhelming response often cited is the struggle to keep up with training.
- By Susan Brady
- Nov 01, 2014
Approximately 18 months have passed since Holly Tsourides took the reins as the CEO of Matrix Systems. But in that short time frame, she’s executed a robust growth strategy and business plan that has changed the face and the path of the company.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- Nov 01, 2014
How much does your wire/cable puller know about what he/she is doing? In most cases, the answer is “not much”. Their job is to literally pull wires through ceilings or conduit under a supervisor’s immediate control.
- By Charlie Howell
- Nov 01, 2014
Paul Accardo, the manager of marketing communications at LiftMaster, discusses the company’s
newest app technologies, as well as the future of home connectivity and app integration.
- By Jamie Friedlander
- Nov 01, 2014
The connected home is emerging as an exploding market sector for security dealers and integrators. In simple terms, a connected home connects smart devices, lights, thermostats and appliances, links them together, and controls them with centralized interfaces.
- By Pat Comunale
- Nov 01, 2014
Since the aftermath of 9/11, the United States has intensified transportation security efforts across the board. For most of us, stronger security measures have been focused at the nation’s airports, where travelers are subject to more stringent screening protocols.
- By Mark H. Johnson, Greg Russell
- Oct 01, 2014
To accomplish such a comprehensive and multi-stage migration and expansion—
and avoid issuing brand new credentials to nearly 20,000 employees —the
team devised a strategy to run C•CURE 9000 on the front end using proximity
technology with the legacy access control system running in the background
to support the existing magnetic stripe cards.
- By Jim Stankevich
- Oct 01, 2014
The staff at Security Products magazine are honored to recognize NPOY winners for their noteworthy products in their ability to improve security.
The entire computing world at one time was strictly proprietary. In other words, the election to use one piece of software or hardware dictated the requirement to get additional expansion and support from the single provider for the lifetime of that purchase.
- By Steve Fisher
- Sep 01, 2014
Most of us have been at the end of a project when the owner/ client asks the popular question: “When does the one-year warranty begin?” The answer becomes one of the most debated topics, only second to the end-of-project, door-locking hardware debacle.
- By Charlie Howell
- Sep 01, 2014
Rob Lydic spends a lot of time traveling around the upper Midwest and Northwest, heralding the needs of security, proper equipment and how dealers can make more money in their own businesses.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- Sep 01, 2014
Idesco Corp. started in the security business in the early 1940s. They began with ID badging for the Department of the Army. Well, times have changed, a lot, in the past seven or eight decades but one constant is that Idesco is still involved in security.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- Sep 01, 2014
Newer technology features the latest optimizations in both hardware and software, and is customized for ICE Cable Systems’ products, making this premium wire and cable brand’s Big Mouth Payout bulk wire dispenser even better.
Water...ice...a bucket?! This company found out exactly what these three things have in common.
Effort dedicated to providing protection and basic resources to children from Central American who are traveling unaccompanied to the United States.
Dealing with an obsolete, legacy fire alarm system and a separate, standalone ECS, the building owner’s property management company, Childress Klein Properties, Inc., turned to local Gamewell-FCI distributor Critical Systems LLC, to help them find a new, comprehensive solution.
- By Brian Carlson
- Aug 01, 2014
Choice, cost savings, speed of deployment and convenience. This is what the use of existing legacy cable can afford the end-user as they migrate existing, analog-based surveillance, access control or intercom systems to IP.
IT professionals are becoming increasingly involved in video surveillance initiatives across all industries. It’s time to build strong relationships with the IT side of the house and include them in discussions about any new system that will piggyback on their backbone.
- By John Bartolac
- Aug 01, 2014
As the only 24/7 neighborhood in Chicago, River North and Friedman Properties have a shared vision for the area to ensure that success will continue to present itself: aligning the right tenants with the right buildings, demanding the best in security and investing purposefully.
- By Mary Wilbur
- Aug 01, 2014