Dear business partners and allies, in less than 50 days, we will be gathered once again in Miami for the Latin American Meeting of Security Leaders.
This event represents an important step in the consolidation of our great event.
For our sponsors it is undoubtedly a great opportunity to reach a specialized, managerial level audience that makes the most important decisions in the acquisition and purchase of security solutions.
The product exhibition and networking spaces, with sessions designed exclusively for business contact, will allow attendees to meet with colleagues and create networks of contacts, an added value that the Summit has and that during the four previous editions has highlighted the event as the most important in its segment.
For our attendees it is the best scenario for learning, healthy debate and academic updating.
Expert presentations will allow Summit attendees to expand their knowledge and skills on marketing, leadership and coaching.
They will also discover the conditions they must have to take their brands to participate in major events worldwide, they will know how to generate impact in the main cities of Latin America with their projects and products, and they will be able to take ideas to make their companies stand out even in adverse situations.
The panels will allow attendees to learn about regulations and standards of Electronic Security regulations in Latin America.
In addition, the presentation of the new UL 2802, the first standard in the industry of an independent laboratory to measure the performance of the video image of the cameras, will be made. Three UL people will be present to answer questions and will have documentation in Spanish.
For many of those for whom they have never attended a Summit or perhaps are not convinced why to do so, here are these reasons:
5 reasons to attend the ALAS Management Summit
It is the only event of its kind in Latin America and the Caribbean (Congress and technology show in one).
It is the event that brings together the main directors and security managers in the region.
Find in one place the main manufacturers and distributors of security systems.
It is the main meeting to make business contacts with VIP members of the industry.
Miami is the business hub of Latin America and the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport Convention Center host hotel is conveniently located 3 minutes from the airport.
We look forward to your participation. See you next month in Miami.
Lyda Durango
Director of Marketing and Communications
Communications in alarm systems
By Luis González
Instructor ALAS
Input: It is essential to be clear about the structure of an alarm signal receiving station to understand how communications work from the alarm panels to the stations.
Much has been said about the means of communication that we currently have to send signals from those alarm panels that report to monitoring stations.
First, I would like to expose the essence of the structure of an alarm signal receiving station (CRA), this principle must be clear and rarely mentioned.
An alarm signal receiving station (CRA) consists of a structure made up of hardware and software that aims to serve as a receiver of all or those signals that are programmed to be delivered to the latter by other systems (alarm panels).
Who generates those signals? Each of the alarm panels (subscribers, accounts and customers) which the monitoring station must monitor or monitor.
And depending on its business nature (give reaction, manage the call to the security entities responsible for the received signal or announce to a specific recipient of the anomaly presented).
Traditionally, the land telephone line (PSTN) has been used for this activity (communication to the CRA). But like everything in our era, it has evolved to reach faster, encrypted and wireless media to achieve this communication.
Several manufacturers already have within their product line a series of communicators that even have internal redundancy contained within the same unit.
We can deliver signals wirelessly to a CRA using channels such as GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), Radio (Telemetry).
And by another type of channel we can get communicators who deliver signals via TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol), Intranet (computer network that uses Internet Protocol technology to share information.
We also find communication devices of the generic type, which is nothing more than the adaptation of telephone line simulators to the inputs of the Ring and Tip of the alarm panels and generally using a Contac Id communication format, that data can be encrypted in order to add security to make it to IP alarm receivers.
What is achieved with these new means of transmission?
Higher delivery speed in signals compared to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) system.
Supervision of each of these communicators, if they are programmed under this modality.
Bi-directionality of data according to the case and the model to be used. With them we manage to access the alarm panel remotely, for configuration and status activities.
Economy in terms of the cost of the service or communication channel, since with TCP / IP protocols access to the information channel is much lower than using a PSTN channel in relation to costs vs time in the air of the communication or the packet to be sent. Especially when we have subscribers who are in remote areas where PSTN access resorts at a high cost, for example outside the Republic.
These communicators have, depending on the model and manufacturer, their own redundancy and embedded inside, being able to achieve communication via GSM, GPRS and TCP / IP in a single unit.
These models are very consistent to achieve reliability and security when it comes to an attempt to sabotage a specific channel. In fact, the use of root PSTN is not ruled out, on the contrary there is the supervision of this channel being Back-up of this the other modalities described above (GSM, GPRS, TCP / IP).
Each time the electricity, electronics and communications sectors are being merged within the same sector: security. Being modules that depend on a location within a WAN network (Wide Area Network, for the acronym of (Wide Area Network) or LAN (Local Area Network), we will find the need to know a minimum of systems to be able to understand and locate our communicators in the network where the CRA works.
Just like when using the GPRS channels of the units to transmit signals. In this case we must adhere to some addresses already pre-established by the contracted communications carrier.
Currently we find ourselves with wide diversity when choosing the means of communication to use, this will depend on the needs of our client, the feasibility in place of implementing one or another technology and / or the costs for the implementation of that communication channel.
Technology is migrating to the wireless field and towards the use of computer networks. And that depending on the degree of security and redundancy in the security system, there are several means to get the signals to a CRA.
Nowadays large customers, those who in their organization have headquarters and branches either national or outside national territory, use their computer networks or virtualize their existing networks in order to use them as transport for these signals, which this time are alarm.
There are certain criteria for this use of the IP channel, but that is already the subject of another column.
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