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.

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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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Monitoring: Weathering A Perfect Storm

30 August 2011 | Email this article

Things look messy for the Australian monitoring industry. Not only does the market face the ultimate phase out of PSTN lines leaving a million alarm systems mute, 2GSM and associated GPRS services don’t look to have a clear future either.

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Untapped Potential In Wireless Monitoring

18 August 2011 | Email this article

There’s plenty of untapped potential in the residential market segment for alarm monitoring that leverages the flexibility, mobility high security and increasingly affordable wireless technologies.

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