Tag: Kevin Helmig
On Location: Central Station with Centra-Larm
April 8, 2015Spencer Ives
MANCHESTER, N.H.—Centra-Larm Monitoring, a wholesale monitoring company based here, is actively seeking a fourth central station to bolster its national presence, Kevin Helmig, company president and CTO, told Security Systems News."We are in acquisition mode and are actively looking to purchase additional third party central stations,” Helmig said. “We'd prefer something located around the central part of the United States, but we're not limiting ourselves to any specific geographic...
Centralarm opens new West Coast facility
April 30, 2014Leif Kothe
MANCHESTER, N.H.—Centralarm Monitoring, based here, has added a third facility in Monterey, Calif., a move that reflects a concerted effort by the company to continue expanding its national footprint.Eleven years ago, when the company began to transition from what was predominantly a New England-based central station to more of a national one, it initially did so without the aid of a major advertising effort, Kevin Helmig, president of Centralarm, told Security Systems News.With the addition...
Going mobile
July 25, 2012Rich Miller
America's elderly population is increasing and is becoming increasingly mobile, with health care technology advancing in lock step. That fact hasn't been lost on the monitoring world, which is gearing up for new revenue opportunities that will accompany the growth of personal emergency response systems (PERS) and mobile PERS devices.According to a recent report by the Central Station Alarm Association, 65 percent of monitoring companies are involved with PERS and senior monitoring at some level,...
Centralarm opens new disaster recovery center
May 9, 2011Daniel Gelinas
BEDFORD, N.H.—Third party central monitoring center Centralarm is getting ready for the ribbon cutting at a brand new disaster recovery center based here. According to Centralarm president Kevin Helmig, the new 22-seat call center is the first step on a footprint-expansion path.
“We're adjacent to the Bedford Police/Fire Safety Complex. We stayed local for our second site so as to be able to quickly and easily allocate the required staff at both sites as needed,” Helmig said. "Future...