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[Lior] wanted to cancel the monitoring system for his home’s alarm, but he didn’t want to stop using the alarm all together. The trick is to rig up some way to monitor it himself. It would have been ...

When you purchase a home security system, one of the biggest decisions you’ll face is whether to spring for live professional monitoring. This service can add significantly to the total cost of the ...

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It is a scenario nearly as old as the security industry itself: An alarm is tripped, it is routed to a central station, which eventually routes it to law enforcement, and then police, fire or EMS ...

Roku offers home security basics with tie-ins to its TV platform. Roku’s security-focused smart home system almost has nothing special to offer. Instead of building its own products from scratch, Roku ...

As a journeyman electrician, Richard Fix never planned on building a major security and fire suppression system company from the bottom up, but that’s exactly what he did. Today, with more than 1,000 ...

As part of an effort to provide faster emergency response and also reduce false alarms, Alarm.com on Sunday unveiled Smart Signal, a new emergency signaling feature within the company’s app that ...