by jjordonbrown | May 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Alarm companies use the term “central station” to mean their monitoring station….but it has a VERY specific meaning. It means it is UL Listed or FM Approved. The alarm industry’s attorney outlined a lawsuit in his daily email that involved a home burning that was...
by jjordonbrown | May 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
Guard Tronic President, Jordon Brown, has been added to UL Technical Committee 8555 for Auxiliary Service Providers. This new UL standard was created to write the specifications for alarm Network Operation Centers (NOC), otherwise known as alarm clearinghouses....
by jjordonbrown | Mar 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
Commercial fire alarm systems require an annual fire inspection by the fire alarm codes and standards. Trust Guard Tronic to perform these inspections and tests, as well as the maintenance of your system. We’ve been providing fire alarm services for over 66 years....
by jjordonbrown | Feb 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
The story of Guard Tronic begins in West Texas…. Our founder, Kenneth Gilbert, grew up with his siblings in the Odessa, TX area. The second-oldest sibling, Vernon Gilbert, founded an alarm company that would become Aprotex (short for A Professional Texas Corporation)...
by jjordonbrown | Feb 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
Smoke detectors > smoke alarms That’s not just a fire alarm installer’s opinion. NFPA 72, the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, rates reliability of three types of smoke detection systems: 95% reliability: System type smoke detectors (what Guard Tronic...
