Alarm.com Announces Platinum Partnership with CMS
For Immediate Release
McLean, VA, April 28, 2004 — Alarm.com® Incorporated, a leading provider of advanced security and monitoring technology for homes and businesses, today announced that it has established a Platinum Partnership with CMS Monitoring of Longwood, Florida.
As an Alarm.com Platinum Partner, CMS has been licensed to resell Alarm.com services through its existing security dealers and will optimize its central station technology for homes and businesses that receive Alarm.com’s award-winning services. Alarm.com has committed to provide CMS with a level of exclusivity as its preferred Independent central station in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Under the terms of the partnership, CMS will install and support technology that enables its central station to receive alarm system signals and events from Alarm.com via an Osborne-Hoffman Internet-enabled alarm signal receiver. This technology will result in alarm signals reaching the central station more quickly, via a high-speed network vs. traditional receiver technology, and allows users to interact with their alarm systems through e-mail, a cellular phone or the internet and to monitor locations where a landline is not available. CMS and Alarm.com also plan to integrate their user account management systems so that customers using Alarm.com and CMS services can maintain their access code and emergency contact information through one website.
Alison Slavin, a Senior Product Manager at Alarm.com commented: "Alarm.com is very excited about this business partnership and the technology advances that it will generate. I believe that Alarm.com and CMS dealer customers will now be able to get significantly more value, in the form of information, control and peace of mind, from their security systems."
Tony Wilson, President of CMS, said, "This partnership and the cutting-edge technology available through Alarm.com provides the CMS dealer network and our company an incredible opportunity to grow in our areas of expertise and in the unique services we can provide alarm companies."
About CMS. With 20 years of experience in providing burglar, fire, open and close and environmental monitoring services for residential, commercial, medical and industrial customers, CMS Monitoring of Longwood, Florida, is one of the largest UL-listed independent central stations in the United States. Its station features the latest in phone technology, alarm receiving and automation equipment, an in-bound calling center, and designated areas for specialty monitoring, such as medical monitoring. The Company also provides dealer integration, support and development services and is licensed to provide central station monitoring services nationally.
About Alarm.com. Alarm.com, Incorporated of McLean, Virginia provides web-enabled, 100% wireless security and activity monitoring technology to residential and commercial customers throughout the United States and Canada. Alarm.com systems are used to monitor and protect houses, apartments, offices, stores, retail chains, trailers, boats, RVs, model homes and more. Alarm.com is uniquely suited to monitor activity at locations where there is no landline telephone connection.
Patents protect Alarm.com services and products. One or more of the following patents may apply to Alarm.com services and products: US Patent Nos. 6,661,340 and 6,400,265. Other patent applications are pending.
For more information on Alarm.com, visit www.alarm.com or contact Alarm.com via email at info@alarm.com.
For more information about CMS Monitoring, visit www.cmsn.com or contact CMS at cms@cmsn.com.