Corporate Partners
DSC is a strategic business unit of Tyco Safety Products, the world's leading manufacturer of life safety and security products - designing, manufacturing, and distributing more than 60 product brands in markets across the globe.
Tyco Safety Products is part of Tyco Fire and Security, the world leader in electronic security and fire protection systems. Its brands are represented in over 100 countries and contribute over $11 billion in annual sales to Tyco International Ltd. Tyco Fire & Security employs 100,000 people around the world - all working to help make the world safer.
Tyco International Ltd. (NYSE: TYC, LSE: TYI, BSX: TYC) is a multinational company with operations in over 100 countries employing over 267,000 individuals. It is a market leader in the manufacturing, distribution and servicing of products and services for a broad spectrum of markets
In early 2008, Intamac Systems signed a distribution agreement with DSC to provide its new web based interactive services into the North American market. The new services were launched on the DSC stand at the International Fire and Security Exhibition (IFSEC) in Birmingham UK, July 2008. As part of the agreement, Northampton-based Intamac has built a new support platform and established offices in Toronto, Canada. This will now be used to provide monitoring and messaging services to DSC’s customers and to support the launch of a range of innovative new security products and video solutions to their dealer and central station network.
This move will position DSC and Intamac as the leaders in the interactive service and broadband enabled security products market space. The Intamac platform will allow DSC to offer new IP video and security solutions to their dealer network - The platform will provide DSC’s customers with web interfaces through which they can manage their clients and offer them a range of new interactive services. In addition to the benefits of a home monitoring service designed to provide timely information with video of any unexpected entry or event, consumers can remotely manage and monitor routine events in real-time that occur within the home every day.
Consumers can customise their home monitoring service to be alerted via phone, e-mail or text message to monitor events such as: children coming home safely for school; the activities of tradespeople, & alerts from water and smoke detectors. The platform also provides for the future growth with remote management and control of domestic heating and electrical systems and the devices attached to them.
Commenting on the agreement, David Grinstead, VP sales said: “The Intamac platform allows us to offer our partners innovative new services that will help grow their business and excite the consumer. We are working to leverage the benefits of broadband and working to make it simple for our dealer network to adapt and exploit IP video and interactive alarm monitoring solutions.”
Kevin Meagher, CEO of Intamac added: “We are delighted to be working with DSC, a global leader in security products, to offer exciting new value added services at attractive price points to their customer base.”
