Monitoring: Surviving the Queensland Floods

WHEN thousands of properties across Brisbane were submerged during recent floods, monitoring stations were forced to fall back onto redundant power and communication systems in order to maintain round the clock protection of clients.

Monitoring: NBN Co Gets Hands On

NBN Co is set to allow security service providers and manufacturers access to its Melbourne test labs in order to ensure their solutions are capable of functioning on the National Broadband Network. It’s a change of direction for NBN Co, which initially appeared unaware of the importance of the copper PSTN system to alarm systems across the nation, simply referring technical enquiries to the ACA.

Video monitoring

If one thing is clear, it’s that the monitoring industry, far from being undermined by the advent of IP-based wireless and wired comms, is now able to provide superior services to an increasingly discerning customer base. And as the NBN rolls out, things could get more exciting still.

Video Control Room

VideoControlRoom is employing video surveillance systems to monitor alarm events at its client’s premises from a remote control room in Melbourne.

Year of the Cat

In a series of articles covering the closure of Securitel, SE&N talks to monitoring solution providers to get a feel for the technologies they feel will now proliferate in the alarm monitoring industry. The common refrain is IP.

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Personal Emergency Response: Opportunity Knocks

22 April 2013 | Email this article

AS Australia’s population ages there’s a growing market for monitoring of personal emergency response systems (PERS). However, most personal monitoring solutions, while locally capable, are relatively old technology and they don’t take advantage of modern 3G cell or GPS technology.

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Alarm Systems Finally Integrating Intelligence

05 March 2013 | Email this article

Just lately as I’ve sat down to write SE&N’s monitoring segment I find myself repeatedly struck by the changes and opportunities climbing over the horizon. To my mind they all revolve around integrating intelligence into alarm systems.

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Monitoring: Changes Keep Coming

09 October 2012 | Email this article

In our last few monitoring segments we’ve highlighted some of the changes the ongoing digital revolution is pressing onto the monitoring industry. They’ve been slow in coming but they’re coming in all directions.

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Monitoring Market Ripe For Digital Revolution

10 September 2012 | Email this article

What does the future hold for domestic alarm monitoring – no I don’t mean just transmission technologies. Can the alarm industry really escape being fundamentally changed by our new digital landscape?

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Considerations Of Video Monitoring

22 August 2012 | Email this article

What we consider to be the biggest technical breakthrough in alarm monitoring is still failing to take off in the manner we’d expect. It’s video monitoring, including video verification of intrusion events, a technology that reduces false alarm call outs and allows operators to ring police directly in the event of a verified burglary.

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Alarm Monitoring Goes Sideways

19 July 2012 | Email this article

Monitoring is in for a lateral future. The idea monitoring solutions must be nothing more than one-way alarm reporting is coming to an end. In the future monitoring will be far more powerful, far more interactive and far more profitable.