One of the many lessons learned from the Smart Cities movement is that you can achieve significant improvement in community safety and resilience when you use network technologies to facilitate communications and data sharing.
- By Kevin Taylor
- Sep 04, 2020
It is no surprise that tragedies on college campuses generate national headlines. Fortunately, active shooter incidents on campus are extraordinarily rare events, and campuses remain far safer than the community at large. However, shootings are not the only concern.
- By Frank Spano, JD
- Jun 18, 2020
SIA, ESA and TMA have penned a letter to public safety officials calling for governments to exempt alarm response centers and companies that serve them from shelter-in-place orders.
- By Haley Samsel
- Mar 25, 2020
Partnership will enable law, police and EMS to quickly connect with the nearest public camera and respond smartly based on the specific situation, potentially preventing more than 2,000
homicides.
The bill’s passage, which would give grants to elderly and low-income residents, came after the House of Representatives approved a bill that requires carbon monoxide detectors in public housing.
- By Haley Samsel
- Sep 20, 2019
With unexpected severe weather and natural disasters looming, one power outage can leave your customers’ businesses at risk.
- By Joe Padilla
- Oct 04, 2018
Fear and uncertainty are two human emotions that prevent people from reacting or acting upon a specific event or incident.
- By Tim Easton
- Jul 31, 2018
Qualified security guars at North Shore University Hospitals will now be armed amid shooting incidents in New York.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Jul 16, 2018
Using a robust, web-based ID software to create credentials with high-security features for a community’s public employees
- By Julie Kuepers
- May 11, 2018
A master key that allows first responders easy and quick access to apartment complexes and commercial buildings was recently found in the possession of a burglary suspect.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Jan 11, 2018
The rise in active shooter incidents and the escalating impact of hostile events has prompted the National Fire Protection Association to process NFPA 3000, Standard for Preparedness and Response to Active Shooter and/or Hostile Events, as a provisional standard, which means it would be available for use as early as April 2018.
- By Jessica Davis
- Jan 10, 2018
The Cannes Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday to increased security measures amid heightened security threat overseas.
Dallas PD and first responders received a call about a suicide; the shooting spree that unfolded leaves many questions to be answered.
A Republican Party office was tagged with graffiti and burned forcing a security alert for all offices in North Carolina.
Cleveland Police show planning and dedication can lead to security during a massive event.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Jul 21, 2016
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Under the latest 2016 edition requirements for Fire System Monitoring has changed drastically. The three options to keep current for fire system monitoring are two telephone lines requiring special, site specific AHJ approval; a single phone line plus another independent form of communications, or a Sole Path Fire Communicator or Equivalent.
There are seven basic code categories for electrified hardware used to control access or egress, and each has seen recent code changes.
- By Lori Greene
- Apr 01, 2016
A riot broke out in Topo Chico prison in northern Mexico the morning of February 11 resulting in the death of at least 52 inmates.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Feb 11, 2016
Honeywell has entered into an agreement to acquire Xtralis, a global provider of smoke detection and perimeter security technologies.
Johnson Controls strikes $20 billion Tyco Acquisition, company to be based in Ireland.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Jan 25, 2016