MCM ELECTRONICS AND EMIZON SIGN AGREEMENT

TO PROVIDE ADVANCED REPLACEMENT FOR SECURITEL

 

(Penrith NSW, Australia, May 2008) Emizon and MCM Electronics, an alarm panel manufacturer, have signed an agreement allowing MCM to join the growing list of manufacturers marketing and selling TCD’s for use with Emizon’s Global 21 service; a managed and secure alarm signalling solution recently launched in Australia and New Zealand as direct replacement for Telstra’s Securitel service.

 

This follows Securitel’s announcement of its closure to new business as from 1^st February 2008 and the total withdrawal of the technology in 2009.

 

“Australia and New Zealand have long been part of Emizon’s global expansion plan,” explains Geoff Girdler, CEO Emizon Group. “The fact that Telstra has made its intentions clear regarding Securitel has merely expedited our launch, as Emizon 21, combined with the skill and expertise of its manufacturing partners is the perfect replacement for Securitel and other communications methods.

 

“This is a perfect time to be launching Emizon 21 in Australia and New Zealand,” adds James Neville, Managing Director of New South Wales-based MCM. “With Telstra’s announcement to cease the Securitel service there has been some uncertainty in the market, which offers the perfect opportunity to provide a service, already well-proven in other parts of the world. Many of the current offerings are GPRS only with intrinsic reliability issues; Emizon 21, however, is managed on both wired and wireless paths giving unrivalled resilience.”

 

As part of the agreement, MCM Electronics will join a growing list of alarm panel manufacturers who have fully engaged Emizon 21 as a global solution for security. MCM will distribute its MCM Telemetry Communications Device (TCD) via its distributor partners in Australia and New Zealand, and also supply its mcmGate software enabling the integration of Emizon 21 into the Alarm Monitoring Centres’ business systems.

“For new customers and for those moving over from Securitel the process is very straightforward,” James continues. “It follows a similar model to Securitel – customers order the service from the Monitoring Centre and buy the MCM TCD from MCM or one of its partners.”

 

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) allows serial interfacing and dial capture between the alarm panel and the device, which is required to meet Class 3, 4 or 5 of the newly released AZ/NZS2201.5:2008 Alarm Transmission Standard. The MCM TCD has been successfully tested and is now being offered by via an ever increasing number of Monitoring Centres in Australia and New Zealand.

 

 

“In addition to the closure of the Securitel service, the industry is trying to make sense of newly released AZ/NZS 2201.5.2008 standards that redefine the requirements for each Class,” James continues. “The new Emizon/MCM offering will simplify any confusion as it meets Class 2, 3, 4 and 5, so the installer and the customer know they are covered, whatever the circumstances.

 

“The fact that Emizon 21 can provide all classes of signalling via one device makes it easy for installers,” Geoff Girdler concludes. “TCD’s have been designed to be a ‘one product fits all’, very easy to install device, and we believe the industry as a whole will benefit from this and the unrivalled pricing of service and product”.

ENDS

 

For further press information, please contact: Iona McIntyre or Alison Bell at AGA Public Relations, London on +44 207 330 8888 or email abell@aga.co.uk

 

Notes to Editor:

 

About Emizon

Formed in 2001 Emizon has developed the first secure, managed, dual-path alarm signalling service designed for IP networks. This means that end users can now embrace the benefits of today’s IP networks; their improved functionality, flexibility and cost effectiveness, while maintaining and increasing security standards associated with traditional dual path signalling services.

 

The 3 elements of the Emizon service:

 

The Telemetry Communications Devices (TCD): Emizon’s equivalent of a Digital Communicator or STU) establishes secure IP connections through the customer router / firewall across the IP network and / or via GPRS or other wireless connections to the Emizon Front End Processors (FEP). The FEP’s authenticate, monitor and manage the data security across the IP networks to prevent technological attacks from succeeding.

 

With all TCD’s the size and requirements are such that they are designed to fit into existing alarm panels and as such will not need a separate box and PSU.

Emizon Service Platform: A central hub of duplicated servers, providing the central processing capability to manage the message delivery process. Using a unique set of patented protocols and secure encryption the service platform continuously interrogates message delivery providing full audit trails as well as the diagnostics to interrogate the end to end process. Put simply the Emizon service works to secure the message delivery rather than the various paths that the message travels over. By using both fixed and wireless networks it can safeguard the service resilience, giving end to end reliability of 99.99%.

 

Connection to the Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC): Via multiple redundant, secure, encrypted network connections allowing the ARC to receive alarms from and interrogate the alarm panel via a unified point of contact.

 

Information on MCM

James Neville founded MCM Electronics Pty Ltd in May 1985. MCM based in Penrith NSW, serves a dynamic market and customer base, providing a diverse range of standard and custom security products to suit the residential, business and financial markets. James is a member of the Alarms Committee of ASIAL (Australian Security Industry Association) and a member of the Australian Standards committees for ‘Alarms systems in Clients Premises, Alarm Transmission Systems and Monitoring Centres’.