Alarm Industry
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From False Alarms to Verified Threats: Why AI Verification Is the Missing Layer in Modern Intrusion Systems
The security industry is at an inflection point. For decades, intrusion systems have relied on the same basic architecture: sensors trigger an alarm, the panel reports the event, and a monitoring center attempts to determine whether the signal represents a real threat. Unfortunately, the industry knows the reality—most alarms are false. In many jurisdictions, this…
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Stop Installing Burglar Alarms Like It’s 1998. Intrusion Over Ethernet: Rebuilding the Alarm System on a Real Network
The security industry has been building intrusion systems the same way for decades — RS-485 buses, proprietary loops, motion detectors based on 20-year-old PIR and microwave logic, and segmented infrastructure for cameras, access control, and burglary. It’s time to modernize the architecture. Power-over-Ethernet Intrusion using IntrusionIQ changes the foundation. With a PoE-based intrusion network: •…
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Intrusion Over Ethernet™: Replacing 30-Year-Old Wiring with AI-Driven, Network-Based Security
The intrusion industry has been wiring systems the same way for decades. Whether it’s traditional zone wiring, polling loops like V-Plex, Combus, or Zonex expanders, the architecture is fundamentally the same: distributed field devices, proprietary bus protocols, and copper everywhere. It works — but it was designed in a pre-Ethernet world. Today, networks power entire…
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IntrusionIQ™ Introduces a Disruptive, AI-to-Alarm Bridge for the Global Security Market
IntrusionIQ™ Introduces a Disruptive, AI-to-Alarm Bridge for the Global Security Market By: Custom Systems LLC WEST WARWICK, R.I. – Feb. 24, 2026 – PRLog — IntrusionIQ™, an innovation from Custom Systems, LLC, today announced the global launch of its first-to-market AI camera-to-alarm bridge technology, designed to transform how analytic camera detections integrate with traditional alarm systems. IntrusionIQ™ converts analytic camera events…
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Stop Installing Two Systems. Make Your Cameras the Security System.
Security integrators have been installing two parallel systems for years: • AI camera systems for video• Intrusion panels for real security response That separation is no longer necessary. You can now turn your AI camera installation into the complete security system — controlled directly by your existing intrusion panel. Whether you deploy Honeywell, DSC, Radionics,…
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Armed While Occupied
For 30+ years, intrusion systems have forced a compromise: Arm the system during the day and constantly bypass zones… —or leave it disarmed and accept the risk. That compromise no longer makes sense. With modern analytic cameras using embedded facial recognition and onboard white/black lists, every authorized person—employees, family members, vendors—can be securely stored directly…
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Stop Installing 30-Year-Old Motion Detectors
Why PIR, Dual-Tech, and Tri-Tech Sensors Are Obsolete — and Why AI Intrusion Has Finally Caught Up For more than three decades, interior intrusion protection has relied on the same core technologies: The housings look modern. The datasheets sound advanced.The detection physics has not meaningfully changed. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence–driven video analytics can now classify a…
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When a Home Invasion Becomes Public: A Reminder About Vulnerability and Preparedness
Recent reporting regarding a home invasion involving the family of NBC journalist Samantha Guthrie has drawn national attention. The incident involves her mother, Nancy Guthrie, and remains under active investigation. As of now, public information about Nancy Guthrie’s condition and the full circumstances of the event remains limited. The attention surrounding Nancy Guthrie is not…
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How Alarm Integrators Can Finally Win Against SimpliSafe and the DIY Giants
How Alarm Integrators Can Finally Win Against SimpliSafe and the DIY Giants For the past decade, national DIY brands have dominated the conversation by reframing security as video monitoring instead of intrusion detection. They sold subscriptions, apps, and cameras—while professional integrators were left defending reliability, codes, and false alarms. That balance is now shifting. IntrusionIQ™…
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When the Threat Is Outside the Home, Your Security Should Be Too
Recent events have renewed attention on a long-standing gap in residential security: most intrusion systems only respond once a threat reaches the home. Doors, windows, and interior motions activate alarms when the incident is already underway. IntrusionIQ changes that model. IntrusionIQ provides early, outdoor human detection using analytic-powered cameras that integrate directly with standard intrusion…