Personnel Tracking of the Week

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Tom Raftery, VP of Corp Services & Purchasing
Protection 1, the second-largest electronic security company in the United States, has appointed Tom Raftery as VP of Corporate Services and Purchasing. Reporting to Chief Financial Officer Dan Bresingham, Raftery will oversee purchasing and inventory management, vendor relations and pricing, as well as corporate services such as real estate, fleet management and travel.In addition, Raftery will play a key role in acquisition assimilation.  read more

Security Suppliers Draw up PSIA Access/Intrusion Product Plans

Standards for the physical security industry took an important step forward with  interoperable products from Honeywell Security, UTC Fire & Security, Tyco Fire and Security, Hikvision, Arecont Vision, IQinVision and ObjectVideo. It was clear that the objective of the PSIA developing a systems specification supporting video, storage, analytics, access control and intrusion has been achieved.  read more

PSIA Steps into Access Control and Intrusion for More Interoperability

The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) will host a reception to demonstrate the final pieces of its security suite of specifications. Arecont Vision, Hikvision, Honeywell, IQinVision, ObjectVideo, Tyco and UTC Fire & Security will demonstrate products relying on five PSIA specifications to support systems interoperability.  read more