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Adam Bannister is a contributor to IFSEC Global, having been in the role of Editor from 2014 through to November 2019. Adam also had stints as a journalist at cybersecurity publication, The Daily Swig, and as Managing Editor at Dynamis Online Media Group.
Infrastructure supporting alarm signalling – the process by which police are notified of potential intruders in residential, public or commercial buildings – is being upgraded for the 21st century.
Called ECHO (Electronic Call Handling Operation), the initiative could improve the process in myriad ways.
Watch the video below to find out what these improvements are. Filmed at IFSEC 2018 it features an interview with Richard Jenkins, CEO of the National Security Inspectorate (NSI), and Dave Wilkinson, director of technical services at the British Security Industry Authority (BSIA).
Jenkins cites a reduction in false alarms already achieved in recent years as an indicator of what improvements the project might yield.
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WATCH: What the ECHO upgrade means for alarm signalling and police responseFilmed at IFSEC 2018 this video features an interview with Richard Jenkins, CEO of the National Security Inspectorate (NSI), and Dave Wilkinson, director of technical services at the British Security Industry Authority.
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