| InGrid Introduces Digital Home Protection Systems
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InGrid, the leader in digital home protection services, today unveiled the first digital home protection products available for distribution through broadband providers. The introduction of digital home protection could double the size of the existing $8 billion analog security market. Digital home protection solves many of the major shortcomings of analog security systems, such as false alarms, short battery life, and high vulnerability to intruders. Using innovative wireless technologies, InGrid creates an invisible grid of security throughout the entire home, offering unprecedented protection and control without extensive installation costs. InGrid's protection network is comprised of a portable handset and broadband-enabled base station that communicates with wireless self-adhering window and door sensors that immediately report any change in activity the customer chooses to monitor.
ADT Expands List of Next Generation Phone Services Providers That Can Support Security System Monitoring
ADT Security Services, a unit of Tyco Fire & Security, today announced that more than 25 IP-based telephone services providers located throughout the United States have confirmed their phone networks meet the characteristics required by ADT to be a primary method of transmitting alarm signals to ADT's Customer Monitoring Centers. Together, the companies represent nearly all of the digital phone services markets and provide coverage to nearly every region of the United States. ADT also announced it is expanding its Voice over Internet Protocol/Digital Phone policy to cover burglar alarm monitoring for business customers following its successful roll out to residential customers in late 2006. ADT is among the first nationwide security services companies to allow business burglar alarm monitoring using qualified VoIP/digital phone service providers as a primary method of alarm signal transmission.
3 Baytown Churches Broken Into In 1 Week
BAYTOWN, Texas -- Three churches in Baytown were broken into within a few days of each other, officials told KPRC Local 2 Tuesday. Baytown police said the Dominion Word of Faith Church in the 800 block of East Texas Avenue was burglarized sometime between Jan. 3 and Jan. 7. According to the police report, TVs, VCRs and radios with a total value of about $50 were stolen. Officials said someone broke into the Church of New Beginnings on North Alexander Drive on Saturday. According to the police report, several items inside the church were broken. .
Suspect in double slaying kills himself
Authorities believe that he killed two McAlester-area people, one of whom was his ex-girlfriend. KREBS -- A man who was sought in the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and a man shot and killed himself during a standoff with officers early Tuesday, authorities said. B.J. Srader, 24, of McAlester was found dead with a single gunshot wound in a building near a cellular telephone tower, officials said. Authorities spent hours Monday searching for Srader after the shooting deaths of Roger Martin Jr., 27, and Melissa Phillips, 19, both of the McAlester area. Their bodies were found early Monday on the porch of Martin's home, a few miles east of Krebs in rural Pittsburg County. Krebs is about 95 miles south of Tulsa. Martin and Phillips were shot with a high-powered rifle, possibly the one officers recovered after Srader's death, authorities said.
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