DMP Training
The Muskogee office of Guard Tronic was proud to host Luke Harris, Central States Trainer for Digital Monitoring Products, today. Luke covered how DMP could upload / download Honeywell control panels using the DMP DualCom communicator. Customers are also able to use...
Google Nest Security – No Longer Available
Source: National Electronic Security Alliance Google has discontinued its Google Nest Secure alarm system, the company first confirmed to Android Police. And sure enough, if you visit the Nest Secure’s page on the Google Store right now, there’s a big button right at...
Halloween 2020
With Halloween less than two weeks away, many of us are planning ways to safely give candy to Trick-or-Treaters. A Z-Wave switch or bulb for your front porch light and a doorbell camera can help you make sure everyone visiting your home stays safe. Turn the light...
3G Sunset
Before cancelling your alarm system service, please take note of the generation of cellular service your system is using to communicate to the monitoring station. Cellular companies aren’t allowing activation of any 3G (for third generation) communicators because of...
Help Wanted
We are hiring technicians at three of our offices: Fort Smith, AR Muskogee, OK Del City, OK These are safety sensitive positions and require a background check (felonies and Class A misdemeanors are disqualifying factors) and pre-employment and random drug testing. ...
Did Fall Bring False Alarms?
As temperatures plunge, critters and varmints are looking for places to keep warm….and motion detectors make the perfect condominium. Please take a few minutes while cleaning your home or business to brush/vacuum over your motion detectors. If you think there may...
Add Us as a Contact
We would ask everyone, especially our customers, to add our central station phone number to their list of contacts. All calls and texts about your alarm system will come from: (800) 687-0668 Calls from customer service representatives, sales representatives,and...
UL 827 Audit – 2020
Guard Tronic Central Station employees Denise Black and Jordon Brown hosted a virtual audit today from Underwriters Laboratory. Nick Mirus performed the audit to ensure compliance to UL 827. Guard Tronic has been UL Listed since the mid-1970s. Our file numbers are:...
Fire Alarm System in Trouble
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) defines a trouble condition as “an abnormal condition in a system due to a fault.” Fire alarm systems should not be allowed to remain in a trouble condition. The building owner is putting the lives of everyone in their...
Labor Day 2020
If 2020 has taught us anything, it is how much we rely on each other. It is critical that each of us go to work every day, so that we can serve our neighbors and be served by them. When that can’t happen, ALL of us suffer. If you have been unable to work, we pray...
Key or Credential?
An access control system is less expensive than traditional lock and key knobs. It also makes life easier for a business owner / manager. No more re-keying locks after an employee leaves without returning their key. No more wondering who your employees have given...
Multiple Sites – One App
Does your business have multiple locations? Do you have more than once residence, such as a VRBO or AirBNB? Do you have a close older family member and would like to be able to control their system as well as your own? With our Virtual Keypad app, you can control...
Back to School 2020
Stay connected with your older children after school by turning on notifications in the #VirtualKeypadApp. Did you know you can receive notification alerts to your phone when someone has entered/left your geo-fence? Plus, get notified of any door/window activity,...
Highest Quality of Service
The market for a UL certificated system is pretty small. Banks, jewelry stores, and customer that have experienced significant losses are the primary places you will find a system required to be audited by UL on an annual basis. However, the expertise required to...
Photography
Anyone with a Polaroid or smart phone can take a picture. You hire a professional photographer to bring out the very best of the images. In the same way, anyone can install their own security cameras. You hire a professional security company to get the very best...
Texting
Most alarm systems users would prefer receiving a text message over a phone call. Statistics from 2019 say that Americans send and receive five times as many texts as they make phone calls and spend more time on text messages than on the phone. As many as 70% of...
Road Trip
With many of us planning one last road trip before school starts, there is still time to add an extra layer of security to your home with automatic lights. It’s great because all interior and exterior lighting can be set up on a schedule (using a Z-Wave device) and...
Reviews
"I have been a customer for over 40 years. That should tell my satisfaction." Richard H. Muskogee area Guard Tronic has received poor on-line reviews from ex-employees fired for sleeping on the job, ex-spouses of employees trying to get them fired, people with whom...
Oklahoma City
Guard Tronic has been providing service to central Oklahoma since the early 1970s. Some of our existing customers would move west and want to keep their service with us, or a chain of retail stores would ask us to travel to take care of their stores. We truly...
Too Good To Be True
The alarm industry has a self-professed attorney for our industry, Ken Kirschenbaum. One of the many services he provides our industry is a daily email regarding legal issues in our industry. His email on Saturday, July 4, 2020 contained an article regarding the...
Independence Day 2020
Happy 244th birthday to the United States of America! As we celebrate the Fourth of July, please be safe with fireworks. Here are some simple safety tips: Spectators should stay at least 25 feet away for ground-based fireworks and at least 75 yards away for aerial...