Tag: RFI Communications
Inovonics announces inaugural mobile duress channel partners
November 30, 2021SSN Staff
WESTMINSTER, Colo.—Inovonics, an industry leader in highly reliable wireless solutions for life-safety applications, has announced its inaugural channel partners for its mobile duress solution, listed below:
Beacon Communications
BluePoint Alert Solutions
CTCI Technology
Midwest Security Services
Piper Fire Protection
RFI Communications
SecureTech Systems
Triangle Security
“We are proud of our long-term relationship with these innovative companies and...
Monitoring: The argument for wholesale
November 16, 2016Spencer Ives
YARMOUTH, Maine—Throughout the year one topic has been cropping up: the benefits of switching to a wholesale central station.
Several companies this year have opted to pick a third party monitoring center over continuing to operate their own central; RFI Communications switched to Rapid Response in March, Red Hawk Fire & Security partnered with Affiliated in October and recently, Comtronics switched its monitored accounts to NMC.
Some of these companies said that the move allowed them...
Conference attendance depends on companies more than show
October 28, 2015Spencer Ives
YARMOUTH, Maine—Before attending a conference, security executives pay more attention to their budget, timing and their current projects than what the show offers, according to responses in Security Systems News' latest poll. But, when it comes to the show, respondents were almost evenly split between location, attendees/keynotes/speakers and “something different.”
Attending a conference depends on money, time and current company projects, according to 69 percent.
Thirty...
NFC access control: cool and coming, but not close
September 25, 2013Kenneth Z. Chutchian
If the operative word for near field communications access control is “cool,” then the obvious question is: “Are we there yet?”The answer is no.Despite limited rollouts that produced enthusiastic feedback from college students and other potential end users, the road toward widespread adoption of NFC-enabled smartphones being used for access control is full of detours and traffic lights. Some of the impediments are technological, some are about security and some are about when...
RFI Communications expands operation
March 13, 2012Martha Entwistle
SAN JOSE, Calif.—With a healthy book of business already in the Los Angeles area, RFI Communications & Security Systems, a Security-Net partner based here, has decided to open a fourth branch office.RFI has hired a branch manager, Scott Covey, to lead the new office, which the company expects to open at the beginning of April. The office will be located “in the North Valley area, likely in Burbank,” Dan Kilgore, RFI's managing director for enterprise sales, told Security Systems...
Consultants, manufacturers and integrators mix at AMAG SES
March 7, 2012Martha Entwistle
I spent the past two days at AMAG Technology's Security Engineering Symposium here in St. Petersburg, Fla.
It was the 11th annual AMAG SES event, with about 90 consultants in attendance. “We handpick the best consultants in the industry and invite them here,” AMAG director of business development Jody Ross told me. More consultants than ever before attended, she said, and about “45 to 50 percent of them were new faces.”
According to informal surveys at the event, business...