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Assessing impacts of land abandonment on Mediterranean biodiversity using indicators based on bird and butterfly monitoring data





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Long-term monitoring data meet freshwater species distributionmodels: Lessons from an LTER-site




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Towards a global terrestrial species monitoring program




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A regionally informed abundance index for supporting integrative analyses across butterfly monitoring schemes





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Guidelines for Standardised Global Butterfly Monitoring




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Global biodiversity monitoring: from data sources to Essential Biodiversity Variables




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Fostering integration between biodiversity monitoring and modelling




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Setting temporal baselines for biodiversity: the limits of available monitoring data for capturing the full impact of anthropogenic pressures




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Long-term monitoring data meet freshwater species distribution models: Lessons from an LTER-site




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Taxonomic sufficiency and indicator taxa reduce sampling costs and increase monitoring effectiveness for ants




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Building capacity in biodiversity monitoring at the global scale




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The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring





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Employee safety monitoring system

Composed of two parts, the Loner Bridge System includes the Loner Bridge Portable Satellite and GSM Base Station and the Loner 900 Employee-Worn Safety Monitoring Device.




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Monitoring dust and noise safety

The Airwave App provides remote access to Casella’s Apex2 Personal Sampling Pump and the dBadge2 Noise Dosimeter.




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Employee-worn monitoring device

Designed for personnel working in paint booths and on-the-ground manufacturing repair and operations, the G7c is a combined safety monitoring and communications device that continuously monitors the concentration of hazardous gases or fumes, and communicates the employee’s identity and location to a live monitoring team in real time.




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Weather monitoring device

The Vantage Vue Weather Station provides accurate, reliable weather monitoring in a self-contained, easy-to-install system.




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Confined space monitoring system

The X-Viz Confined Space Monitoring System meets OSHA requirements during plant turnarounds.




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Professional monitoring service

Users of the iNet Now platform can enhance it by using real-time response center monitoring for gas exposures and panic or man-down alarms with a 24/7 monitoring service.




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Alarm.com Launches Energy Monitoring Services

Alarm.com, Vienna, Va., a provider of interactive security and connected home services, announced its new Energy Monitoring solution that provides consumers with a view of their whole home and individual device energy usage, fully integrated through the Alarm.com website and mobile apps with their security, video and home automation services.




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2020 TMA Monitoring Center Excellence Awards Winners Announced

The Monitoring Association (TMA), along with co-sponsor SDM, unveiled the 2020 Monitoring Center Excellence Award Winners for Monitoring Center of the Year, Manager of the Year, Operator of the Year and Support Person of the Year. 




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TMA & SDM Announce 2022 Monitoring Center Excellence Award Winners

The Monitoring Association (TMA) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2022 Excellence Awards. This year’s awards were presented virtually on Monday, April 25 by TMA President Morgan Hertel and the award sponsor, SDM Magazine.





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TMA & SDM Reveal 2024 Monitoring Center Excellence Award Winners

SDM will publish a feature story on this year’s TMA Excellence Awards winners in its August emagazine and online.




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TMA 2020 Monitoring Center Excellence Award Winners

This year’s Monitoring Center Excellence Awards looked a bit different than usual. While the awards have historically been announced live at the Electronic Security Expo (ESX) annually held in the summer, due to COVID-19 the in-person awards were canceled, along with ESX.




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Acadian Monitoring Reduces False Alarms by 99% With AI

False alarms have long troubled video monitoring stations. With stations in Lafayette and Baton Rouge, La. and Chicago, Ill., Acadian Monitoring Services did better than most in the industry, estimating only two of three alarms received were false.




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2021 Monitoring Center Excellence Award Winners Approach Challenge With Compassion

Whenever a natural disaster or tragedy strikes, many invoke the words of popular children’s television host Fred Rogers, told to him by his mother: “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” For these Monitoring Center Excellence Award Winners, the helpers are in the central station, helping all the time, even when they’re off the clock.




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Network Health Monitoring: Opportunities & Challenges

Keeping video surveillance systems up and running can be challenging — in large part because not everything needed to keep the camera functioning properly is under the control of the security integrator.




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Alarm & Monitoring Industry Enjoying Overall 7% Growth, Says Barnes

The Electronic Security Association (ESA) presented a virtual town hall recently during which Michael Barnes presented an alarm industry update that, for the most part, signaled a rising tide, post pandemic.




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Idter's new innovation in the intrusion detection and alarm monitoring space

Dave Engebretson shares a new innovation in the intrusion detection and alarm monitoring space. 




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OberCloud ABI Simplifies IP Camera Hookups & Network Monitoring

New OberCloud ABI product simplifies IP camera hookup and provides integrators with a great RMR tool.




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Understanding AVS-01 & its Impact on Video Monitoring

As monitoring companies take advantage of new video technology and grow their businesses to include video monitoring services, it is important to understand that there is a significant difference between installing a video system and a monitoring-ready video system.




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Video Systems vs Monitoring-Ready Systems: Changing the Mindset

AVS-01 standardizes a classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems, helping law enforcement allocate resources and response prioritization. 




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How Proactive Video Monitoring Can Prevent Crime

Also known as Video Monitoring-as-a-Service (VMaaS) or remote guarding, the idea is to deter criminals via voice-down. Maybe video can even replace a traditional alarm system.




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Remote Video Monitoring: Execs Dish Strategic Approaches

Subject matter experts from the central station and automation software marketplace address some of the best approaches that security dealers and integrators can follow to up their remote video monitoring game.




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Unlocking the Potential of Remote Video Monitoring

Remote video monitoring is not a new concept. And while its application has remained for the most part limited and narrow in scope for years, its trajectory is on the cusp of spiking.




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How the Guarding & Monitoring Industry Is Changing Forever

Technology advances, staffing shortages and other influences, are reshaping the traditional guarding and monitoring industries concurrently.




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How the AVS-01 Standard Revolutionizes the Monitoring Industry

Mark McCall, Chair of the TMA AVS-01 Committee, explains the collaborative effort between the alarm industry and public safety professionals and how the new standard aims to refine alarm notifications and the quality of alarm information.





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AVS-01 Rollout: Insights from Alarm & Monitoring Industry Stakeholders

David Holl speaks to executives from monitoring centers and emergency communication centers about their involvement in the initial pilot programs for the AVS-01 standard.





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Strategic Hiring in the Monitoring Industry

Monitoring center executives and managers have a lot to express about the endless work that goes into keeping their call centers staffed with the best talent possible.




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Monitoring Center Execs Share Strategies for Building Dynamic Teams

Top central station executives illuminate the art of recruiting, onboarding and retaining exceptional talent. Plus, they share their views on remote work policies.




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1-on-1 With a Winner: Fiore Ayala, 2023 Monitoring Center Manager of the Year

SDM spoke with the 2023 TMA Monitoring Center Manager of the Year. Ayala is the director of operations at Rapid Response Monitoring Services.




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State of the Market: Security & Monitoring 2018

2017 was a good year for the economy — and manufacturers, dealers and integrators definitely felt the positive impact of these trends.




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State of the Market: Security & Monitoring 2019

Doomsday didn’t happen. For all the concern many security dealers have shown in recent years — particularly about the rapidly changing residential market — all indicators seem to finally point to what was always the hope in the midst of the fear: that all the new entrants, technologies and business models would start to grow the pie for all.




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State of the Market: Security, Monitoring & the Smart Home

Security professionals reveal their thoughts on the security, monitoring and smart home markets.




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NIOSH releases silica monitoring software

Washington — NIOSH has unveiled a beta version of an online software tool designed to provide post-shift assessments of mine worker exposure to respirable crystalline silica.




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NIOSH finalizes silica monitoring software for miners

Washington — NIOSH has finalized the beta version of an online software tool designed to provide post-shift assessments of mine worker exposure to respirable crystalline silica.




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Hazardous noise monitoring

A common question we are asked is, “We work a 12-hour shift: Should I use 8 or 12 as the time duration on my noise dosimeter to calculate the time-weighted average?” Understanding how changing the time duration of a noise dosimeter sample affects the results, and how this relates to the noise standard, will help us make the best decision.




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Noise-monitoring innovations

What are the latest ways to measure environmental noise?




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Using the correct noise monitoring equipment

When should I use a noise dosimeter instead of a sound level meter?




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User Experience, Integration Pace Wholesale Monitoring Trends

Monitoring centers are focused on improving customer contact and providing tools for ease of use and quicker response.




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FieldHub & Affiliated Monitoring Partner to Provide Seamless Integration for Security Systems Dealers

FieldHub and Affiliated Monitoring's partnership offers a comprehensive solution for managing operations in a single cloud-based platform.