Tag: Stanley
Securitas celebrates second anniversary of STANLEY acquisition
August 6, 2024SSN Staff
UNIONTOWN, Ohio — Securitas Technology is celebrating the second anniversary of its acquisition of STANLEY Security and STANLEY Healthcare.
The STANLEY businesses joined together with Securitas Electronic Security to form Securitas Technology, a $3.2B business and the world's second largest commercial electronic security, health, and safety provider.
"Two years ago, we brought together the expertise and scale of two iconic security and safety organizations with rich histories...
Stanley enhances its monitoring
November 24, 2015Spencer Ives
It seems that Stanley Security has really been focusing on how it approaches monitoring lately.
Monday, the company announced its partnership with I-View Now, a cloud-based platform for central station video verification. Last week CSAA announced Stanley's participation in its ASAP to PSAP program. Additionally, all of this is coming just weeks after Stanley announced its acquisition of SentryNet, a wholesale monitoring center.
Steve Walker, VP of customer service for Stanley said this could lead...
The biggest booths at ASIS 2015
August 11, 2015Spencer Ives
ANAHEIM, Calif.—At ASIS International's 2015 Seminar and Exhibits, which will take place here Sept. 28-Oct. 1, Protection 1 is upping its presence and other top companies, such as ASSA ABLOY and Axis, are looking toward being greener, while TycoIS and STANLEY focus on interactivity.
Protection 1 is increasing the size of its booth at ASIS, from 800-square-feet in 2014 to 3,000-square-feet this year. “This year we're going back to a large booth,” Lisa Ciappetta, senior...
Online wireless locks moving forward, but not locked into the market
May 21, 2014Kenneth Z. Chutchian
Online wireless locks are making inroads in the security industry, particularly on the perimeters of large buildings with hundreds of doors inside."The trend is that one-and-a-half years to three years ago, 75 to 80 percent of electronic locks globally were offline,” said Blake Kozak, senior analyst of security and building technologies at IHS, a research and information company based on Colorado. “The market is shifting to online."Nevertheless, he notes, about 80 percent of the locks...
Q&A with Axis co-founder Martin Gren
February 18, 2014Martha Entwistle
Martha: I just returned from the Milestone conference where partners, including Axis, extolled the virtues of the VMS. Why does Axis really need to develop its own access control product?Martin: The virtues of software and system intelligence provide even more reason for why Axis developed our first network door controller.Moving into physical access control is a natural step in the evolution of Axis. We weren't always a network video company, but we've always been an intelligent device company....
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...
Vector national accounts takes aim at ADT
November 23, 2010Martha Entwistle
PITTSBURGH—Taking market share from ADT is at the top of the to-do list for industry veteran Gary Fraser who joined Vector Security two weeks ago as Director of North American Sales for Vector's National Accounts Division.
“It's my goal to take Vector and make it the predominant number three player in the EAS [Electronic Article Surveillance—a wireless tagging technology used in retail settings] industry,” Fraser told Security Systems News.
Currently, Vector is the fourth...
ISC Solutions opens
November 4, 2010Martha Entwistle
NEW YORK—The transformed ISC East, now called ISC Solutions, opened here with a new look and crowded aisles yesterday.
Was it a function of more people being at the show this year as opposed to last? Or was it the skinny aisles that gave the illusion that there were more people? The official audited numbers won't be available for more than a month, according to Ed Nichols of event organizer Reed Exhibitions, but attendees who spoke to Security Systems News said it didn't matter....
Stanley enhances its On Fire initiative
October 27, 2010Tess Nacelewicz
NAPERVILLE, Ill.—Stanley Convergent Security Solutions this year took its innovative employee fire-training initiative and made it more employee-friendly and cost-effective, company executives told Security Systems News in October.
Stanley's On Fire initiative to provide in-house training for its employees in fire alarms and code safety made the news when it began in 2008. This year, enhancements made the program even better, according to Felix Gonzales, VP of strategic initiatives & business...
GTCR to buy Pro One: Covert and Whall back in business
April 26, 2010Martha Entwistle
LAWRENCE, Kan., and CHICAGO—Jim Covert and Tim Whall will be back in the security business following the close of a $828 million deal, announced today, where private equity group GTCR acquires Protection One.
“Jim will be a board member and serve as an advisor, and Tim will be the CEO,” said David Donnini, GTCR principal, who noted that GTCR has worked with Covert and Whall, notably with the Cambridge Protection and HSM deals, over the past 15 years.
“We teamed up with Tim...