Security dealers and home-tech integrators should try Nextdoor.com to generate hyperlocal business, referrals and repeat customers in a very efficient manner.
Home Tech Pros Should Get Hyperlocal With Nextdoor.com, Other Neighborhood Networks
Top 50 Cities for Amazon Package Theft
San Francisco and Seattle are most frequent cities for Amazon package theft by ‘porch pirates’ and offer strongest potential to install front doorbell camera systems, according to study.
Former ADT CEO: $10/Month, No-Term Alarm Contracts Sold Online Are Future
Former ADT CEO Tim Whall says the future of smart home security is $10 per month, no-term monitoring contracts sold online to clients. Residential dealers need to transition to higher upfront equipment fees.
Canary Facing Class-Action Lawsuit Over Monthly Monitoring Fee
Smart home camera company Canary is being slapped with a class-action lawsuit after it stopped giving its users free features and instead started charging a monthly fee.
Are Amazon and Ring Working Together to Create a ‘Suspicious Persons’ Database?
Ring says its patent does not reflect current developments to products and services, but speculation continues to swirl after Amazon’s ‘Rekognition’ facial recognition experiment got the company in hot water earlier this year.
PowerHouse Alliance Adds Security Distributor KOA CCTV
The West Coast-based KOA CCTV specializes in video surveillance cameras, DVRs, and home automation, and now joins a group of 12 regional wholesale distributors serving Southern California and Las Vegas.
Is It Illegal to Install a ‘Hidden’ Smart Speaker?
Certain state laws prohibit audio recording in covert applications, so can you disguise an Amazon Echo or Google Home?
Internet-Based Alarm Monitoring Can Be Safer than Cellular. Say What?
Cellular might seem more reliable than Internet for communications between alarm systems and central stations, but what happens when CDMA sunset kills millions of pro-monitored security systems?
CES 2019: Smartest New Smoke, Fire and CO Detectors
TodaySmoke Detective turns any smart phone or camera-enabled device into a smoke detector … and other innovations in smoke, CO and fire safety at CES 2019.’s
$9M Smart-Home Integrator Sells Biz to Employee and Top Client: Big Growth Planned
Greg Simmons and partner have sold their Las Vegas security and home-automation firm Eagle Sentry to long-time sales manager Cory Reif and top client Mark Lindsey, who already built “the greatest showroom on earth.”











