Tag: Bill Rose
ASG COO moves to SecureNet
December 2, 2015Spencer Ives
LAKE MARY, Fla.—Bill Rose, formerly ASG's chief operating officer, is now the COO for SecureNet Technologies, a software company based here that provides a platform for various security devices in the home.Rose will be looking into new products and technologies, and overseeing the new integrations into SecureNet's platform, he told Security Systems News.“One of the big things that I bring to SecureNet is having 30-plus years working … in the security field, specifically in selling similar...
NewsPoll: SSN readers debate the utility of CES home automation gadgets
February 18, 2015Spencer Ives
YARMOUTH, Maine—Home automation gadgets coming out of the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show are interesting, but discretion might be needed before some go too far, according to Security Systems News readers responding to our latest NewsPoll.
CES was a popular event—28 percent of SSN poll respondents attended the show in Las Vegas. Though 69 percent of respondents couldn't make it, they stayed current on news reports. Three percent said that CES is not on their radar.
“This...
2GIG's co-founder has new gig and hot new first product
June 4, 2014Tess Nacelewicz
GRAPEVINE, Texas—Sales of a new device that can affordably turn existing home smoke detectors into monitored smart smoke detectors have surpassed 200,000 units in just a few months and more orders are pouring in, according to the manufacturer, Encore Controls, a startup co-founded by Lance Dean. “It has taken off a lot,” Dean, co-founder of 2GIG and now new home security/home automation player Encore, told Security Systems News about The Firefighter. That new smoke detector takeover...