Chair: see below
Meets: days and times vary
TMA promotes and produces standards to help guide alarm companies in operating their monitoring centers within ANSI guidelines. Requests for new standards or for revisions of existing standards may come from member organizations, individuals or non-members. The committee reviews requests and acts upon them based upon time availability of committee members, and in adherence to formal and published procedures.
TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Verification Standard
Overview: A standardized method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems that will assist law enforcement with resource allocation and Call for Service prioritization.
Initiated: 2020
Committee Chair: Mark McCall, Immix
Committee Co-Chairs: David Holl, Larry Folsom
Status: Standard in final DRAFT process
LEARN MORE
APCO/TMA ANS 2.101.3-2021 Alarm Monitoring Company to Emergency Communications
Center (ECC) Computer – Aided Dispatch (CAD) Automated
Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP)
Initiated: 2013
LEARN MORE
ANSI/TMA CS-V-01-2022: Alarm Confirmation, Verification and Notification Procedures Standard
Initiated: 2004
Committee Chair: Glenn Schroeder, NetOne International
LEARN MORE
Staff Liaisons: Bryan Ginn, Celia Besore