Tag: Five Diamond

OGDEN, Utah—AvantGuard strives to exceed all monitoring and customer service standards, and to satisfy the requirements for the TMA Five Diamond designation is true sign of AvantGuard’s commitment to excellence.  To receive and maintain the Five Diamond designation a monitoring center must meet the “five points of excellence,” which are a commitment to:  Ongoing, job-related education and testing by having 100 percent of its monitoring center operators certified using...

VIENNA, Va. - The Monitoring Association, an internationally recognized non-profit trade association whose mission is to advance the professional monitoring industry through education, advocacy, standards, and public safety relationships, recently announced the introduction of its Five Diamond Dealer Program.An extension of its prestigious Five Diamond Designation, which is the standard of excellence for the monitoring industry, the new program provides the means for TMA Five Diamond-designated alarm...

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...

ATLANTA—AT&T has launched its mobile PERS units, called the EverThere, a small wearable device manufactured by Numera, a Seattle-based provider of mobile health solutions.Powered by AT&T mobile broadband network, monitored by a CSAA Five Diamond central station, with geo-redundant infrastructure, Penrose added. the device automatically detects falls, has two-way emergency calling, and will deliver both enterprise and direct-to-consumer solutions.Chris Penrose, SVP, AT&T, emerging devices, shed...

NEW YORK—After launching its IntelligentHome security/home automation product in upstate New York, Southern California and North Carolina in 2011, Time Warner Cable recently announced it plans to roll out IntelligentHome in its footprint nationwide in 2013.Maine, Kansas City, Mo., South Carolina and all of North Carolina—its original launch was limited to just Charlotte, N.C.—are some locations in which Time Warner has recently said IntelligentHome will now be offered.Andrew Russell,...