Smart Phones

New video surveillance products and solutions are often touted as having a game-changing influence on the market, leaving security integrators and end users to sort out fact from fiction. SSI queried industry experts to highlight several technologies whose time really has come.

Growing consumer demand to access and control as much as possible through their mobile devices is creating new recurring revenue for security installation and monitoring companies. Increasingly, manufacturers are offering devices and software to make these services more widespread.

We are fortunate to work in an industry that thrives on technology. Manufacturers and network providers continue to push the technologies toward extracting additional value from each product and service. The industry has witnessed thiswith the digital keypad, digital communicator formats and currently with the variety of alternate means of alarm communications.

The technology world is ever changing as consumers clamor for the slimmest flat-screen TV, flash their new iPhone™ and show off their eco-friendly car in the center of their driveway for all to see. For those of them who own homes, that mentality carries over. These homeowners — particularly the affluent — want it all, and they want ...

Whenever I attend giant trade shows like the recent ISC West in Las Vegas, people invariably ask me, “What have you seen on the floor that is hot?” This is an especially common question for those folks chained to an exhibition booth or stuck in ...

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