Tag: Brian Ciasnocha
SMS: The path to reducing work for central stations
April 4, 2016Spencer Ives
YARMOUTH, Maine—Monitoring centers can reduce their workload through alerting users by SMS text messages; more central station automation platforms are expanding this offering.Security Systems News spoke to two central station automation providers, Dice and MKS, as well as full service alarm company Per Mar Security Services about the benefits of texting alarm users.MKS previewed its new SMS module for low-priority alarms at its users conference, held in Orlando, Fla., in March, MKS president...
How I Use My System: Brian Ciasnocha
April 1, 2016Spencer Ives
Brian Ciasnocha, Per Mar Security Service's director of sales-electronic security, has been in the industry for 16 years. He started with ADT in 1999 and joined Per Mar in October 2014. In early March, Ciasnocha talked with Security Systems News about the system he uses at home.And what kind of system do you have?It's a Honeywell, the Vista 20. I've got a Tuxedo keypad with door contacts, motion detectors, glass breaks. I do have smoke detectors on every floor as well as carbon monoxide detectors....