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SECURITY SYSTEMS NEWS MAY 2011 www.securitysystemsnews.com It’s the great ISC West 2011 round up Continued from page 10 and will be monitoring accounts in June,” Maden said, hinting there was no plan to stop at four actively load-sharing monitoring centers. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we announced number five sometime before the end of the year. We’re very much committed to a regional model.” An education session titled New Technology in Alarm Monitoring was moderated by Axis Communications business development man- ager and industry liaison Steve Surfaro. Panelists included Bold Technologies president Rod Coles, DICE Corporation president and CEO Cliff Dice and SGS VP Hank Goldberg, who discussed the role of new technology at the evolving central station. “It’s all about control. If you want to have full control, then you build your own proprietary central sta- tion,” Bold’s Coles said, when asked what drove the decision between proprietary and service provider monitoring. The SIA Membership Meeting, held at the Security Industry Association’s centrally located booth, updated attendees on the state of the association. SIA’s Richard Chase also announced the annual New Product Showcase winners, of which next- generation biometrics-based access control provider FST21 was the top winner with its intelligent-building solution SafeRise. At the FST21 booth, SSN was given a brief demonstration of how the facial and voice recognition aspects of the biometrics function. FST21 founder Major General (Res.) Aharon Zeevi Farkash, a world-lead- ing security expert who served as head of Israeli Military Intelligence, company president Avi Lupo and CTO Shahar Belkin were on-hand to answer questions. “We need a new way of thinking and of using technology to keep people feeling safe and secure,” Farkash told SSN. “Because of tech- nology, you can have both security and convenience.” AES Intellinet marketing com- munications manager Dee Frazier and COO Mark Brandstein sat down in their booth with SSN to explain the educational campaign they were waging about the possible govern- ment sale of the 450-470 MHz range of the RF spectrum, a move that could have big implications for the security industry. American Two-Way president Christopher Baskin sat down for a session of ssnTVnews and talked about a new mobile PERS solution being touted by spokesperson Betty White. Mace CS’ Morgan Hertel also sat down with ssnTVnews to discuss changing technology and the role of the central station. Among the many cocktail recep- The revenue-generating XTL is available only to dealers in the DMP authorized network. Contact us about reducing costs and building RMR with the XTL. www.dmp.com tions were the Women’s Security Council kick-off at the V-Bar at the Venetian, Alarm.com’s recep- tion/exhibit space, and Security Networks’ reception and Verint’s Tao bash. All parties attended were packed. Cocktail receptions by two Texas-based monitoring cen- ters, National Monitoring Centers and United Central Control were well attended and provided a good opportunity for current dealers and prospective dealers to meet and mingle. NMC president Michael Schubert, EVP Woodie Andrawos, Cali-based operations manager Grant Graham, and Texas-based regional sales manager David Steinbrunner were all present facilitating attendee interaction for NMC. UCC president Teresa Gonzalez, SVP Mark Matlock and GM Tracey Ritchie spoke with SSN about the company’s continuing focus on its dealers. One final word, the second annual Security 5K, organized by ISC West, Security Systems News and Security Director News, and sponsored by Axis, Honeywell, LRG, Pelco, STI, Altronix, Bolide, Alarm.com, Deister NEWS 11 Electronics, DMP and Ditek took place at 7:30 a.m. on April 7. With 400 runners and $92,000 raised through Mission 500, 240 of the world’s neediest children will receive housing, food and clothing for a year. SSN Tracey Ritchie NO.4 SIMPLIFIED TECH TRAINING There’s no time today for steep learning curves. The fast-to-install, easy-to-program systems, available only to DMP authorized dealers, get techs up to speed faster. Built-in features in the XTL™ Wireless Security System enable fast, one-tech installs. They spend less time in the classroom and more time on the job generating revenue. DMP systems are designed to save time...time you can spend making bank deposits. dmp sImPLy PuT, Time is $ 2011. . /