Security Dealer & Integrator back issues from April 2008:
Spring, Baseball and Campus Security.(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Spring, Baseball and Campus Security By Greg McConnell I can appreciate at least one good aspect in all four of nature's seasons, but there is something about spring that really stands out for me. Perhaps it's the warmer temperatures, brightening skies and blossoming ...
The Future of RMR.(Feature)
Apr 01, 2008 ... The Future of RMR By Deborah L. O'Mara These days, no business is immune from economic worries. But the burglar and fire alarm industry has something going for it. It's called recurring monthly revenue or RMR and for alarm and central station companies it's quite ...
THEN AND NOW: MASS Notification Systems.(Feature)
Apr 01, 2008 ... THEN AND NOW: MASS Notification Systems By Karen Duane Johnson Extending the reach of safety Have you heard the one about the geese in a 1900 Brooklyn poultry market that foiled a theft when their outcries alerted the watchmen on duty? Perhaps that could ...
Copper Theft: New Solutions.(Publishers Letter)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Copper Theft: New Solutions By Peter Harlick Keith Jentoft, President, RSI Video Technologies, Minneapolis, recently sent me some video clips showing copper burglaries in progress. I was reminded of a summer job during college working demolition on the upper west ...
Best of Breed Advertising Campaigns: Marketing that Works.(Business Management)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Best of Breed Advertising Campaigns: Marketing that Works By Cathy Rempel What makes a successful advertising campaign? How do you know what will work best for your company? Since 1853 when Augustus R. Pope developed the electromagnetic alarm to the mid ...
We Have Class, but Very Little Style.(Fire Alarm Expert)
Apr 01, 2008 ... We Have Class, but Very Little Style By Greg Kessinger, SET, CFPS As I've pointed out in past issues, the 2007 editon of NFPA 72 actually adds very few new code requirements. Sure, a word or two has been changed or a paragraph re-worded to state something more ...
Software as a Service.(Network Expert)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Software as a Service By Tom Galvin Emerging services provide new monitoring possibilities A new class of network-hosted monitoring services is emerging to complement and enhance traditional alarm monitoring. Hosted services that provide video monitoring ...
IP-Based Intercom and Paging Solutions.(IP Expert)
Apr 01, 2008 ... IP-Based Intercom and Paging Solutions By Chris Coffin Last year, Gartner Inc.'s research vice president Carl Claunch announced the top ten technologies to watch in 2007. Among them was network convergence. The Yankee Group reported the VoIP market could reach $3.3 ...
Casino Security.(VIDEO Expert)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Casino Security By Glenn Heywood There are an estimated 1,000 casinos in the United States alone, from spectacular resorts in Las Vegas to an Indian gaming facility in Iowa and a riverboat on the Mississippi near New Orleans. Thousands of people may pass ...
Bidding on Campus Security Installs.(Access Control Expert)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Bidding on Campus Security Installs By Tim O'Leary Q: Is the college and campus market worth going after? A: Yes. To what degree depends on your region, your company's capabilities, and your willingness to go after the projects. My own company has projects ...
Preparing Effective Session Plans.(Training Center)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Preparing Effective Session Plans By Connie Moorhead Session plans are an essential tool for presenters in any field. They are a set of notes in logical order for the facilitator to follow, ensuring the presenter maintains a course towards the objectives of the ...
Balancing Security in a Changing Society.(Feature)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Balancing Security in a Changing Society By Deborah L. O'Mara Integrators come at it from every angle Sometimes it 'takes a village' for successful security deployment. Case in point: Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Lynn, Mass. For years the ...
Leading Integrators in Campus Security.(Roundtable feature story)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Leading Integrators in Campus Security By Karen Duane Johnson The topic of campus security has been a pressing one and never has it been more relevant than today, as shootings have tragically become part of the college experience. School administrators, parents and ...
How Safe Are Our College Campuses?(Feature)
Apr 01, 2008 ... How Safe Are Our College Campuses? By Ileene-Marie Mooney One year and another incident later ... When this article was first slated for these pages, the Virginia Tech incident was a fairly recent memory and this editorial was designed to chronicle the ...
Monitoring the Central Stations.(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Monitoring the Central Stations By Greg McConnell It's funny how people are when it comes to collecting information. Understandably, we are uncomfortable with the notion of "Big Brother" in its various forms, whether it be our government, our bank, or even our Web ...
Understanding VoIP Alarms.(Feature)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Understanding VoIP Alarms By Mark S. Fischer Every day our technical support department fields questions from dealers whose customers have switched their phone service from POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). The problem is that ...
Electric Locks & Access Control Considerations.(Feature)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Electric Locks & Access Control Considerations By Dale R. Eller, NBFAA Director of Education and Standards So here's a question. Would you walk in to a school, office building, factory or other public building and chain and padlock all of the exit doors? ...