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The Monitoring Association Appoints New Government Relations Committee Co-Chair
The Monitoring Association (TMA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tommy Whisnant to the co‐chairmanship of its Government Relations Committee.
Read MoreTMA Names Committee Co-Chairs for its Monitoring Center Notification of Active Threat Standard: TMA-ATN-01
The Monitoring Association (TMA) is pleased to announce that Anita Ostrowski, Vice President of Central Station Services, Vector Security, and David Holl, Director of Public Safety, Lower Allen Township (PA), will serve as co-chairs of the ANSI-proposed TMA Monitoring Center Notification of Active Threat Standard (TMA-ATN-01) Committee.
Read MorePPVAR Announces TMA’s AVS-01 Received ANSI Accreditation
January 2023. The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation that its TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard has received official ANSI accreditation. Initiated in 2020 in a joint effort between PPVAR and TMA, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems.
Read MorePPVAR Announces TMA’s AVS-01 Received ANSI Accreditation
January 2023. The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation that its TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard has received official ANSI accreditation. Initiated in 2020 in a joint effort between PPVAR and TMA, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems.
Read MoreTMA Announces their AVS-01 2023 Alarm Validation Scoring Standard
TMA-AVS-01 provides a standardized method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems that will assist law enforcement with resource allocation and Call for Service prioritization.
Read MoreCalifornia DOJ Approves Pilot of TMA’s Automated Secure Alarm Protocol
The Monitoring Association (TMA) welcomed its 119th Emergency Communications Center (ECC) in the United States and its first agency in the state of California to implement the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP). The state of California became the 22nd state in the United States to participate in the ASAP program. Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, TMA’s ASAP service is designed to increase the accuracy and efficiency of calls for service from alarm companies to Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs).
Read MoreTMA Welcomes 50th FirstNet® Certified Company
The Monitoring Association (TMA) announced that systems integrator Convergint Technologies, LLC., Renton, WA, became the 50th FirstNet certified company.
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