From a business continuity perspective the reliability of the central station monitoring service for your security and life safety systems is extremely important. After your alarm system is installed – assuming it is installed expertly with quality parts, it should be trouble free for decades. There are only a few parts that need periodic replacement; e.g. batteries, carbon monoxide, and smoke detectors expire in time. Maintenance aside, over the long haul it is your central

The key to having an economical, long lasting, easy to service security or fire alarm system tailored to your needs is planning. It sounds simple, but it’s not. Serious planning takes time, and a proper team. In fact it goes way beyond the technology of your system. As a business, planning and system design specifications are a separate service you should pay for; leading to a “cheeses to cheeses” proper bid process. Most security and life safety systems installation companie

I love to help people. I have been doing it since the leaders of my Boy Scout troop taught me to live by three tenants; the scout oath, motto, and adage: “leave each place you visit better than you found it”. We would not leave a camp site before we “policed” it for trash (which we carried out with us). We also stacked a pile of kindling and fire wood next to the cleaned out fire pit – for the next travelers. I try to apply this philosophy to each place I visit in including “

At the heart of risk aversion and management are people – not technology. Make no mistake, technology creates great advantage, but it can never replace what people bring to the equation. When we consider engineering security and life safety systems for an organization the mistake I see often repeated is that the systems, which are based on technology, are envisioned outside of a business continuity plan. Business continuity (BC), what we are really talking about, has three ar