Tag: Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR)
PPVAR announces addition of Tammy Cozby as board member
August 28, 2024SSN Staff
FRESNO, Calif.—The Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR), an organization established to promote the value of verification and validation of alarm events during the emergency response process, recently announced a new vice president.
The new PPVAR vice president for alarm industry role will be filled by Tammy Cozby, VP of commercial monitoring at Everon. With over three decades of experience, Tammy has dedicated herself to central station management within the security...
Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response announces 2023 board members
August 14, 2023SSN Staff
FRESNO, Calif. – The Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR), an organization promoting the value of verification and validation of alarm events during the emergency response process, just announced its new board president and secretary for the 2023-2024 term.
According to the PPVAR the president for the 2023-2024 term will be Mark McCall, the director of global Operations for IMMIX. The secretary role is set to be filled by Kristy Johnson, director of integrations at ADT.
McCall...
PPVAR, SIAC talk verified alarm standards
June 11, 2014Leif Kothe
LAS VEGAS—It's little wonder that the topic of verified alarms tends to spark dialogue between those in law enforcement and the alarm space. Intended to reduce false dispatches while increasing apprehensions, verified alarms—and the policies that guide them—are of critical importance to both groups, and continue to shape the relationship between them.
And, given the ongoing conversation about standards for verified alarms, there's still much to be said on the topic.
That's...
Verified alarm? Definitions vary
March 5, 2014Leif Kothe
HENDERSON, Nev. and VIENNA, Va.—It's likely that a new comprehensive verification standard will surface sometime in 2014. The Central Station Alarm Association is in the process of developing such a standard for all manner of verified alarms, and the Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response, since its inception, has been gathering best practices toward that end.
What's less clear at this point is what the finished standard will look like.
While those involved in producing...
Digital Life, Imperial Capital join PPVAR
January 15, 2014Leif Kothe
Several organizations recently joined PPVAR's growing membership roster, but two of the new additions are particularly striking. Digital Life, a home management platform from AT&T, is now on board, according to Keith Jentoft, an industry liaison for PPVAR. This comes about seven months after Digital Life earned CSAA Five Diamond certification.
Investment bank Imperial Capital also joined the organization. This is doubtless an interesting development as well, with Imperial being the organization's...
Video verification a priority for new CSAA president Hauhn
October 30, 2013Leif Kothe
VIENNA, Va.—Establishing the Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response as a standing committee within the Central Station Alarm Association will be a top priority for recently elected CSAA President Jay Hauhn.�
“It is my intention to work with the PPVAR leadership and hopefully bring PPVAR into the CSAA,” Hauhn, CTO and VP of industry relations at TycoIS, said. “That is the No. 1 thing that I will be focusing on for the first several months of my tenure.”
Hauhn,...