Tag: Rapid Response
Advances in monitoring technology changing the standards landscape
July 18, 2018Paul Ragusa
YARMOUTH, Maine—As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace within security, monitoring companies and third party standards organizations such as UL are doing their best to understand what this means for central stations today, especially in regard to creating requirements that reflect the current state of innovation within the industry.In March, UL published a proposal to extend the effective dates for two sets of requirements that are new to the eighth edition of UL 827, The Standard...
TechSec 2017 Panel: Monitoring the next tech
March 15, 2017Spencer Ives
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.—The hot topics in the industry—drones and robotics, cybersecurity, the Internet of Things, big data and data mining—all impact monitoring centers, as well as integrators and end users.
At the TechSec Solutions 2017 panel, “Monitoring the next tech,” Morgan Hertel, VP of technology and innovation for Rapid Response Monitoring, and Jim McMullen, president, COO and founder of COPS Monitoring, explored how industry trends will impact their side of the...
My Alarm Center's new business model driving success
August 17, 2016Paul Ragusa
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.—My Alarm Center, a super-regional security company with a rapidly evolving national presence, is coming off an impressive year of organic growth, complemented by the success of its new DIY division, LivSecure.“Both 2015 and 2016 have been really great years for us and signify a big shift in our business model to be more flexible and capital efficient in terms of having options for growth,” Amy Kothari, My Alarm Center's president and CEO, told Security Systems...
Rapid Response plans new building
March 16, 2016Spencer Ives
Local news source Syracuse.com recently reported that Rapid Response Monitoring is looking to expand its presence further in Syracuse with plans submitted for a new three-story building. The company is currently working on a 35,000 square-foot expansion of its headquarters, to be unveiled this spring.
Security Systems News has reported on Rapid's rapid growth previously. Here's a story about the expansion of the headquarters.
The report said, “The state has agreed to provide a $1 million grant...
RFI goes with Rapid Response
March 9, 2016Martha Entwistle
SAN JOSE, Calif.—To provide more customized services to its clients, RFI Communications and Security Systems plans to close its internal monitoring station and outsource its monitoring to Rapid Response.“Rapid Response can immediately provide more services to our existing base and bolt-on more services to our high-end commercial and enterprise customers,” RFI president Brad Wilson told Security Systems News.Wilson said RFI was looking for “a partner that has agility and technical...
Rapid hires
January 6, 2016Spencer Ives
Rapid Response Monitoring is holding a hiring event at the Destiny USA mall in Syracuse, N.Y. Rapid Response held a similar event about 12 months ago.
Christopher Denniston told Security Systems News that last year's event was “a very big success, so we're doing the same thing again this year.”
“We're working on expanding the Rapid team on both coasts,” Denniston said. The company is looking to have a similar event close to its Corona, Calif., facility, he said, but hasn't...
Central station transformation
July 15, 2015Martha Entwistle
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.—The Internet of Things culture, where everything is connected, is changing the way people interact and the way business is transacted. It's also changing the central station landscape, pushing centrals into a new world where they are being asked to monitor more devices and to provide a variety of information to customers, instantly and around the clock.
To keep up with this demand, central monitoring stations need to become more sophisticated. This requires significant...
New positions at ADS, Rapid Response
January 14, 2015Spencer Ives
Updated Feb. 13, 2015
Alarm Detection Systems, based in Aurora, Ill., sought to strengthen its executive team by promoting six people to new roles. And today, as I write this, Rapid Response is looking to fill 70 or more positions for its headquarters in Syracuse N.Y.
As I'm looking over the current events of the industry, growth has been quite the theme, and these are companies that are growing by notable proportions.
At ADS, Amy Becker will become VP and Controller; Nick Bonifas, Corporate Counsel;...
Rapid Response to hire 70
January 13, 2015Spencer Ives
SYRACUSE, N.Y.—Rapid Response Monitoring, based here, hosted a career fair at the Destiny USA mall, also here, on Jan. 14, to hire candidates for more than 70 openings. The company planned to hold first-round interviews with applicants at the event.“If [applicants] are able to start immediately, we would put them in a training class in the next two weeks, and if they need a little more time to give notice we would work that out with them.” Christopher Denniston, marketing and communications...
Rapid Response hires new people has 'record year'
December 10, 2014Spencer Ives
While searching for what's new out there, I noticed that a Syracuse publication posted online that Rapid Response Monitoring hired 11 new people.
Upon following up with Christopher Denniston, marketing and communications manager for Rapid Response Monitoring, he stated that 2014 was a year of record growth for Rapid Response—the best year in its history.
“More dealers have chosen to transition to Rapid than ever before and our dealers have also experienced positive organic growth,”...