McLEAN, Va. — Remote video guarding company Elite Interactive Solutions is the 2024 winner of the Monitoring Technology Marvel Award.
The Monitoring Technology Marvel Award, which is co-sponsored by SSI and the The Monitoring Association (TMA), recognizes “professional monitoring centers and solutions providers for the innovation and/or implementation of cutting-edge technology,” according to the joint announcement.
It was created in 2018 by TMA’s Technology Committee. The mission of the Marvel program is to recognize monitoring centers that create and/or use cutting-edge technology, and to raise awareness of these new technologies.
“To be competitive today, professional monitoring centers are enhancing processes and expanding services in new, unique ways,” according to the TMA announcement. “The Marvel Award is one way to gain recognition for your company, your brand and for your amazing, talented team.”
By winning the 2024 Monitoring Technology Marvel Award, Elite Interactive Solutions joins join two-time winner National Monitoring Center, as well as one-time honorees ADT, Affiliated Monitoring, CPI Security and USA Central Station.
“Achieving true crime prevention has been my ambition for decades, but it has only truly become possible the past few years as the technology finally caught up to fully enable my vision,” says Elite CEO & founder Aria Kozak, who on April 10 was inducted into the SSI Industry Hall of Fame earlier this month.
“By strategically implementing and custom calibrating the latest in AI and analytics, the remote video guarding results Elite and its monitoring command center — in terms of direct daily crime preventions and police assistance in arrests and detainments — have been extraordinary and previously unattainable,” he says.
Inside the Technology Marvel Award Judging
Marvel Award winners use technology in innovative ways to introduce new levels of efficiency or effectiveness within the business; additional, innovative video verification, artificial intelligence, home automation and cloud-based services to customers; and a heightened level of protection or privacy (physical and cybersecurity).
Judges reviewing applications based on innovation and originality, effectiveness and efficiency, client impact and market response, evidence-based results, and scalability and adaptability.
“This recognition lines up with our core directives for efficiency and effectiveness, so it hits right at our pride point,” says Elite CTO Jonathan Kozak in the company announcement. “We are passionate about achieving real solutions in crime and catastrophe prevention. The technologies are tools in the hands of users, and the real efficiency and effectiveness matures when those users have the right methods and the right mission.”
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