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Security Market Index – March 2018 Edition (ISC West Edition)
Ninety-five percent of security industry professionals polled in the latest SIA Security Market Index (SMI) survey say that current business conditions are positive, with 42 percent saying they are “excellent.”
Keep Reading »Dialing Up Security
Smartphones can be an essential component of a mass notification system Smartphones permeate our lives. In fact, 91 percent of adults keep their smartphones within arm’s reach, according to Morgan Stanley, and Daily Infographic reported that the average person looks at his or her phone approximately 110 times a day. Consumers are clearly hooked on…
Keep Reading »Security Monitoring Trends to Watch in 2017
As a company that integrates with a wide variety of security monitoring solutions—traditional physical security devices to business risk systems—SureView Systems obtains a unique perspective of the trends in the security monitoring arena. Looking ahead in 2017, here are five security monitoring trends we foresee. VMS Move to the Cloud Each of the major video…
Keep Reading »SIA Member Profile: David Pakech, Vice President of Sales, Fire-Lite Alarms by Honeywell
How did you get into the Security Industry? My 20 years experience prior to Honeywell with Siemens and Westinghouse was in sales and marketing of electrical distribution and controls to the commercial construction industry so expanding my knowledge and experience to include commercial fire alarm with the industry’s largest manufacturer was a natural fit. To…
Keep Reading »Insights from SIA’s Chairman: D-Block Spectrum for First Responder Communications
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 brought to challenges first responders face with electronic communications to the forefront. The lack of reliable interoperable communications led to fire fighters not being aware that police officers had received orders to evacuate the second World Trade tower after the first collapsed. Fire fighters lost their lives because…
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