Tag: Jay Stuck
Five Questions: Jay Stuck
February 21, 2017Spencer Ives
Jay Stuck recently became the business development manager for Kastle Systems, a full service security company based in Falls Church, Va., with a presence around the country, including the New York City area. Security Systems News asked Stuck five questions in December.Are you married? Do you have kids?I have been married for 25 years. I have three daughters of my own, and a stepdaughter and a stepson. With five kids, the holidays are always a busy time for us. It's great to be an empty nester, but...
Helping building owners keep watch
November 25, 2014Spencer Ives
NEW YORK—SecureWatch 24 used ISC East 2014 to showcase SecureWatchman, a new offering of customizable video analytic alerts for building owners.
Special cameras with built-in analytics will be able to enact protocols devised by building owners, leading back to SW24's central station in Moonachie, N.J. Jay Stuck, company executive VP, identified multi-family housing as a key market for this product.
“Now we're able to help the building owners and supervisors detect loitering,...
SW24 tests national strategy in Manhattan's Diamond District
May 21, 2014Leif Kothe
NEW YORK—It has ambitions to become a national enterprise-level security provider, but SecureWatch 24, a full-service security company based here, also has identified a strong market in its own backyard—the roughly 3,000 high-end jewelry stores in Manhattan's famous Diamond District.Those 3,000 retail stores are located within a two-block area south of Rockefeller Center. That's not far from SW24's Fusion Centre, a 25,000-square-foot monitoring facility that, together with its guard services,...
SW24 honors vets and first responders at Brooklyn Nets games
March 4, 2014Leif Kothe
NEW YORK—SecureWatch 24 is teaming up with its partner in the National Basketball Association, the Brooklyn Nets, to honor first responders and serving or retired armed forces veterans at the team's home games, according to a news release from the company.As part of the SW24 Security Heroes program, SW24 Security and the Nets make an in-game announcement about each honoree. A brief biography is read to the crowd at the Barclays Center, where the Nets play home games. In addition, the honoree...
Monitor America earns UL listing
July 30, 2013SSN Staff
MOONACHIE, N.J.—Monitor America, a provider of security monitoring services technology, based here, has earned UL certification for meeting all required criteria, according to a company statement.
“Becoming UL-listed is a milestone for Monitor America and its goal of being the most advanced central station for alarm services in the nation,” Jay Stuck, spokesman for Monitor America, said in the statement. “Security directors, together with dealers and integrators who are looking...
Monitor America's dealer carrot: A year of free monitoring
March 27, 2013Rich Miller
MOONACHIE, N.J.—Monitor America, a new wholesale monitoring company specializing in advanced video services, is opening its facility here in April with an offer of one year of free monitoring for the first 100 dealers who sign up.Steve Ipson, director of business development for Monitor America, said dealers taking advantage of the offer would have to sign a five-year contract, but there would be no limit on the number of accounts they bring aboard. The promotion will be formally launched April...
SW24 adds DIY to tap apartment market
February 20, 2013Rich Miller
NEW YORK—Targeting what it sees as an underserved market—apartments, with more than 2 million in metropolitan New York alone—SecureWatch 24 is getting into do-it-yourself security and is opening a store near Rockefeller Center to sell the systems.SW24, which specializes in property surveillance and facilities management, entered the residential intrusion market last fall by giving consumers the option of month-to-month monitoring contracts. DIY for apartment dwellers is a natural...
SW24 getting positive response to 'no long-term contracts'
January 23, 2013Rich Miller
NEW YORK—SecureWatch 24's promotion of residential monitoring with no long-term contracts has raised eyebrows in the alarm industry, but consumer response has exceeded the company's expectations since an ad launch on Jan. 2, according to Executive Vice President Jay Stuck.
A 1-minute television ad has been airing on ABC, CBS, NBC and about 40 cable channels in the metro New York area, said Stuck, who is also chief marketing officer for SW24. He said the positive response backs research...
Video 'big hook' for Monitor America
December 5, 2012Rich Miller
MOONACHIE, N.J.—Monitor America has moved into SecureWatch 24's new Fusion Centre here, aiming to put itself ahead of the curve for what it believes is the future of the monitoring industry: video and managed services.Jay Stuck, chief marketing officer for Monitor America, said the new company's 25,000-square-foot central station is equipped to handle all cloud-based B2B, enterprise and residential services, including access control, virtual security tours, PERS, real-time event reporting and...
Monitor America debuts at ISC East
November 28, 2012Rich Miller
SecureWatch 24's new Fusion Centre in Moonachie, N.J., has a new tenant: Monitor America.
That's the name of the company that will be operating the 25,000-square-foot central station at the facility, which served as an emergency command post for police and municipal officials after Hurricane Sandy.
Jay Stuck, chief marketing officer for Monitor America, said the company “brings together virtually all existing alarm and hosted video services available today, including video analytics, in one...