Tag: Lewis Jacobson
Central gets into software business
January 7, 2015Spencer Ives
TORONTO—Operating seven central stations across the United States and Canada, a.p.i. Monitoring will offer more to its dealers, with proprietary accounting software to be released Q3 2015, and a new mPERS partnership agreement to monitor Numera devices.The software, designed by a.p.i. to make billing and accounting easier, will be offered to a.p.i.'s dealers at a monthly fee with no upfront cost and will be integrated with SIMS 3 central station software, which a.p.i. transitioned to in the...
a.p.i. Monitoring adds managed services division
January 29, 2014Leif Kothe
TORONTO—a.p.i Monitoring, a wholesale monitoring company with seven central stations in the U.S. and Canada, is seeing some encouraging early returns from its managed services division, which debuted as a separate unit in November 2013.“We saw a spike in demand for the services,” Lewis Jacobson, director of dealer sales, told Security Systems News. “So it was time to break it out from our regular operations.”The new division concentrates on hosted video and video verification,...
Ontario monitoring company now supports Bosch IP communications
January 24, 2014SSN Staff
VAUGHAN, Ontario—With installation of a CONETTIX D6100IPv6 Communications Receiver/Gateway, service provider a.p.i. Monitoring now supports IP communications from Bosch intrusion systems, the company announced Jan. 22.
The company has 300,000 customers in the U.S. and Canada, which it serves through seven central stations and a disaster recovery center. It already monitored Bosch systems with public switched telephone network communications, according to a news release.
“By adding the...