False alarms may not seem like a big deal. After all, a false alarm is better than an actual break in, right? Well yes and no. This article from SecuritySales.com explains just how disruptive false alarms can be. Of course… Read More
Archive for May, 2011
Curbing False Alarms
- May 27th, 2011
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- Tags: ARK Systems, central monitoring station, CMS, Convergence, Convergence in fire alarm technology, Cost of POTS, Curbing False Alarms, dispatching police officers to the scene, Emergency, emergency response, enhanced verification, equipment malfunctions, False Alarms, False Alram, falsely announced break-ins, Fire Alarm, Fire Alarm technology, Greater coordination required, Internet Protocol, IP, IP communicators, IP fire alarm communicators, IT infrastructure, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Fire Protection Association's National Fire Alarm Code, NFPA 72, plain old telephone system, Potential savings, POTS, Power backup for IT components, primary means of communicating, primary means of communication, receiving station, Reduce operating costs, Remote diagnostics, Save money, Savings, secondary means of communication, secure facilities, security, security personnel, security systems, Service Calls, Technology, Understand IT standards and practices
Convergence in fire alarm technology
- May 18th, 2011
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- Tags: ARK Systems, Convergence, Convergence in fire alarm technology, Cost of POTS, Emergency, emergency response, Fire Alarm, Fire Alarm technology, Greater coordination required, Internet Protocol, IP, IP communicators, IP fire alarm communicators, IT infrastructure, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Fire Protection Association's National Fire Alarm Code, NFPA 72, plain old telephone system, Potential savings, POTS, Power backup for IT components, primary means of communicating, primary means of communication, receiving station, Reduce operating costs, Remote diagnostics, Save money, Savings, secondary means of communication, secure facilities, security, security personnel, security systems, Service Calls, Technology, Understand IT standards and practices
As the security industry quickly adopted the use of IT infrastructure and systems into its physical security, the fire alarm industry was much slower to grab on to the new concept of “convergence.” Code changes to the 2007 National Fire… Read More
FBI Launches Its Next Generation Identification (NGI) System
- May 13th, 2011
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- Tags: ARK Systems, Color Code System, Color Coded System, Core processing, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fingerprint identification, fingerprint scans, Lockheed Martin, Maryland, MBSS, Morpho Biometric Search Services, MorphoTrak, Next Generation Identification, NGI, Replaces Color Coded System, security, Security advancements, security field, Security Maryland, Secutiry Measures, Technology, Terrorism, Terrorism security measures, Terrorist, Video security, Video surveillance, What's new in Security
The future is now according to this article from the Homeland Security Newswire. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently launched its innovative Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, which will gradually phase out the old Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System… Read More
New Terror Alert System
- May 5th, 2011
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- Tags: alert directly to law enforcement, Alerts, ARK Systems, credible, credible terrorism threat against the United States, Department of Homeland Security, elevated threat, Homeland Security, imminent threat, impending terrorist threat, intelligence community, major change, Maryland, National Security, National Terrorism Advisory System, National Terrorism Alert System, New Terror Alert System, NTAS, potential terrorist threats, specific, Terror alert, Terror Color, terror warnings, utilize social media sites
Recently, on April 26, a new terrorist alert system – the National Terrorism Alert System (NTAS) – went into effect. The NTAS replaced the old color-coded alert system that had been in place since 2002. The NTAS will include “imminent… Read More