Tag: Acadian Monitoring Services
'20 under 40' Class of 2018—Brandon T. Niles
November 6, 2018Spencer Ives
Brandon T. Niles, 34
Director of operations, Acadian Monitoring Services
Lafayette, La.
Brandon Niles, now the director of operations for Acadian Monitoring Services, started at the company as legal counsel, joining the business directly out of law school.
“I was so intrigued by what we were doing on the monitoring side that I spent a lot of time in the central station, and I kept asking a lot of questions. So, over the first one to two years, I got promoted to where I was a manager...
ISC West 2015—The daily monitoring report
April 13, 2015Spencer Ives
Friday, Day 3
The last day, like the first, started off with a great meeting at the media stage. This time I met George De Marco, ESX chair, and talked about how the different ways booths look to bring in visitors, everything from booth design to attractions.�
Then I headed into the show floor for a meeting with Cliff Dice, company president and CEO, and Carol Enman, Dice SVP for strategic business. We talked a lot about the reception of Dice's cloud-hosted central monitoring software...
'20 under 40' 2014—Kristin Hebert
October 21, 2014Leif Kothe
Kristin Hebert, 34
Dealer and Vendor Relations, Acadian Monitoring Services, Lafayette, La.
What inspired you to get into the security industry?
I was always fascinated with the medical industry, but my heart was always in technology and gadgets. After high school I went to Louisiana Technical College in Lafayette and got an associate's degree in industrial electronics. Unlike my fellow classmates, who were all holding out for the big jobs, I went straight to work. The first job I got was...
SSN News Poll: Readers debate central station of future
September 3, 2014Leif Kothe
YARMOUTH, Maine—Though central stations will always hang their hat on the value of their core monitoring service, their transformation into hubs of more than just alarm signals is well underway.
There's no consensus yet on what the central station of the future will be, but most respondents (55 percent) to the latest SSN News Poll say central stations, given the Internet of Things movement, cannot be content with doing business as usual.
Thirty-six percent of respondents, however,...
Monitoring everything
August 4, 2014Martha Entwistle
“The Internet of Things,” the ever-increasing number of devices that are connected to the Internet, may represent a new frontier in monitoring. As the number of connected products rises, so do the revenue and service opportunities for security dealers to monitor those devices.
To fully take advantage of these opportunities, however, mindsets must change, according to executives from third-party central monitoring stations who spoke to Security Systems News for this story.
“I...
Making money on mobile monitoring
May 28, 2014Leif Kothe
YARMOUTH, Maine—Whether the talk is about mobile PERS devices with geo-fencing, speed alerts and lone-worker monitoring, or about smartphone apps that better connect subscribers with central stations, the takeaway is that the monitoring space is going mobile, and the transformation is happening fast, according to central station executives who are using these newer technologies.
“[mPERS] is absolutely the fastest growing thing we see right now on the PERS side, with the emergence of...
Acadian Monitoring offers services presentation
January 21, 2014SSN Staff
LAFAYETTE, La.—Acadian Monitoring Services has released a “Spotlight of Services” dealers can use to show the technologies and services they offer to potential customers, the company announced recently.
The iPad presentation shows alarm, video and access control monitoring technologies. Dealers can customize it for a small fee, according to the statement.
“More of our dealers are adopting the iPad as their go-to sales meeting tool,” said Jason Caldwell, national...
AT&T rolls out mPERS unit
December 11, 2013Leif Kothe
AT&T has officially launched its mobile PERS unit, called the EverThere, a small wearable unit manufactured by Numera Libris. The device automatically detects falls, has two-way emergency calling, and will deliver both enterprise and direct-to-consumer solutions.
Chris Penrose, SVP, AT&T, emerging devices, shed some light on AT&T's plans for channeling the product to market. “In terms of end-users, unlike traditional PERS, which target individuals in their 80s, this mobile solution would offer...
Acadian Monitoring goes mobile
December 4, 2013Leif Kothe
LAFAYETTE, La.—Powered by the launch of a mobile app that helps technicians, Acadian Monitoring Services, based here, saw its dealer base grow substantially in 2013, Kristin Hebert, dealer and vendor relations at the company, told Security Systems News.
Dealers regard the app as a boon, he said, because it allows technicians to operate more efficiently while doing installations. “It really helped dealers a lot,” Hebert said, “Now their technicians aren't waiting...
IP forwarding services seeing greater demand
August 27, 2013Leif Kothe
YARMOUTH, Maine—As the IP revolution continues to reshape the alarm industry, those in the monitoring space are finding some non-traditional ways to boost RMR and improve operations in an increasingly IP-centric world.One development amid these changes is the growing demand among central stations and their dealers for IP forwarding services. In simplest terms, these services allow centrals to own and resell individual IP addresses, rather than being bound to the IP address of their Internet...