Jay Hauhn, the executive director of CSAA, lays out the current state of the monitoring industry.
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Why Wireless Will Do Wonders for Our Workforces
One day about seven years ago, three events led to an epiphany that changed my daily thinking forever. That day, I set up a printer with built-in WiFi and took delivery of my first iPhone. Prior to the iPhone’s delivery, I anxiously tracked its whereabouts using...
SIA Seeks to Strengthen Security Via Standards
Open any technology magazine or read any technology-centric blog and you can’t help but have empathy for businesses that must try to keep pace with the demands rapidly advancing technologies place on them.The recent release of the Apple iPhone 5 is a good...
Broader Spectrum Ahead for Security and First Responders
On Feb. 22, President Obama signed the “Middle Class Tax Relief” legislation. While the tax implication of that bill was the big story, also included in the bill was legislation that finally provided nationwide spectrum for use by first responders. The...
SIA Sets Sights on Standards and Outreach
I became chairman of the Security Industry Association (SIA) in November 2011. I inherited from my predecessor, Gordon Hope, a strong association despite an economic downturn that impacted all our members and the industry in general. SIA was coming out of a year of...
Forecast Calls for Cloud-Based Revenues
A lot of people have their head in the cloud these days. Accusing someone of that three years ago might have started a fight. Today, if you have your head in the clouds it’s not that you are an “airhead.” Quite the contrary, it is more likely you are...
In the Know: Making Clients’ Data Compute a Golden Opportunity
Cash will always be king, but data can be golden. Most companies have considerable proprietary data at their disposal, spread across their enterprise. To make that data golden, an ever-increasing number of firms are deploying business intelligence (BI) systems.What is...
In the Know: Champing at the Bits
During its first 100 years, our industry grew despite the inability of most of our products to transmit more than one binary bit of information from point A to point B. That single bit simply indicated everything was normal or, depending on the service provided,...
