The Monitoring Association

The Monitoring Association (TMA) will be introducing a brand-new feature launching at its 2025 Virtual 75th Anniversary Mid-Year Meeting on Technology Day, April 30: the Tech Demo Showcase. This new addition will spotlight 15-minute product demonstrations from five innovative companies, offering attendees an up-close look at technologies, reshaping monitoring and security industries. A live Q&A session will follow each presentation. The 2025 Virtual 75th Anniversary Mid-Year Meeting is set to take place April 30th-May 1st.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) recently announced David Charney, senior vice president video command center, Everon, will deliver the keynote address at the 2025 TMA Virtual Mid-Year Meeting on Tues., April 29, 2025, at 10:00 AM/ET. His address, titled, “Inspiring Leadership in a Changing World,” will speak directly to the evolving landscape of leadership in the monitoring industry. The 2025 TMA Virtual Mid-Year Meeting will take place virtually over three days, Tues., April 29th-Thurs., May 1st.

On a cold night in 1949, eight men met in the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Their purpose in gathering that evening was to talk about forming an organization of approved central offices that would present their view to the Underwriters Laboratories and the Casualty Insurance Bureau and that would allow them to compete against industry giants such as Grinnell, ADT, etc.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation from ANSI that the Public Comment Period for its TMA-ATN-01 Monitoring Center Notification of Active Threat Detection is officially now open through April 1, 2025.

The Queen Anne’s County MD Emergency Services is the 131st Emergency Communications Center (ECCs) in the United States to implement The Monitoring Association’s (TMA) Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP).

The Monitoring Association (TMA) is pleased to announce that the application period for the inaugural Louis T. Fiore Electronic Communications Scholarship is now open.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tommy Whisnant to the co‐chairmanship of its Government Relations Committee.

March 16, 2023, McLEAN, Virginia—The Monitoring Association (TMA) is pleased to announce that Anita Ostrowski, Vice President of Central Station Services, Vector Security, and David Holl, Director of Public Safety, Lower Allen Township (PA), will serve as co-chairs of the ANSI-proposed TMA Monitoring Center Notification of Active Threat Standard (TMA-ATN-01) Committee.

January 2023. The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation that its TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard has received official ANSI accreditation. Initiated in 2020 in a joint effort between PPVAR and TMA, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems.