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34 MONITORING www.securitysystemsnews.com JULY 2011 SECURITY SYSTEMS NEWS Security Partners grows mesh footprint By Daniel Gelinas LANCASTER, Pa.—Security Partners—the UL- listed/FM approved/CSAA 5-Diamond cer- tified central monitoring station collocated with Select Security—announced recently it had added more radios and more Internet connections, called IP-links, to its AES Intel- linet wireless mesh network, which it has branded Centras. Security Partners began deploying an AES mesh network a year ago and switched to the Centras branding in Janu- ary of 2011. According to company president Patrick Egan, the growing network is a sign of the times. “This is a no-brainer. Anyone who’s not doing this is a little behind the 8-ball,” Egan told Security Systems News. “It’s a game chang- er … Dealers are asking for this.” Egan says AES’ dedicated reliabil- ity makes expanding the network much more affordable and sensible than trying to expand via traditional communications pathways. “We started out strictly in Lancaster County and we started building out west towards central Pennsylvania and north into Reading and Berks County,” Egan said. “But we also have other networks linked through IP links. We’re monitoring AES radio networks from Delaware, Florida, New Jersey and we’ve recently received licenses for western Pennsylvania, so we’re going to be expanding this to support my company Select Security, in addition to other dealers, expanding it throughout Maryland and the rest of Pennsylvania … I would expect that in the next three- to five years we’ll have the whole mid-Atlantic Security Partners president Patrick Egan checks on his AES-Intellinet equipment. area covered.” Egan said Security Partners was moni- toring more than 2,000 accounts already and was ready for more through IP-linking, which links geographically disparate mesh networks together across the Internet. “Dealers and central stations own this. They’re not beholden to the phone compa- nies, who do what’s good for them, not the industry,” AES-IntelliNet president Mike Sherman said. “An Intellinet system’s a lit- tle like a funnel with a marble. No matter where you throw the marble into the fun- nel, it will eventually come out the bottom. So what do you do in a situation where you’ve got a central station in the East with a strong customer in Dallas? What we’ve come up with is MultiNet. It uses IP-links as radio points of presence in a locality” that tie the remote radio network via the Internet to its central station. SSN IVERIFY Continued from page 1 prevention program, it was a natural fit to go with [Iverify].” According to May, Iverify will provide its “I Guard” and “I Control” products, delivering projected savings of $62.5–$70 million. The suite of services will reduce guard costs, lower losses from theft, and improve employee safety, according to May. “We think we have developed an effec- tive forward-leaning service that drives value and safety to the point of protection,” May said. Mellor said each Iverify deployment was individually tailored to the specific location and that there would be ongoing oppor- tunities to do more Iverify deployments throughout the chain’s nearly 7,000 loca- tions nationwide. SSN SSN has the news YOU need! Don’t delay...get your FREE subscription today! www.ssnsubscribe.com BUSH Continued from page 33 video of [his son] George W. Bush. [This year the senior Bush introduced his son via video] so it was nice to see George Bush return the favor for his son’s appearance,” Comeaux told Security Systems News. “One of the most rewarding results of the event was having our dealers and suppliers come up to me and tell me they never realized the tradition, size and scope of our parent company, the Acadian Companies.” SSN