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)...

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...

Is your alarm company calling you every time the power blips? If they are calling about your fire alarm system, there is a good chance it is out of compliance. Fire code states: Supervising station alarm systems shall be arranged to delay transmission of primary power...

When you list the people for which you are grateful during weather events (like electrical linemen, healthcare workers, police/fire/ambulance workers, etc.), we ask that you also include central station operators. Several of our operators have been staying at the Fort...

Last week’s Verizon outage highlights the alarm industry’s dependence on cellular communicators. Most alarm system communicators will use EITHER AT&T/T-Mobile OR Verizon/US Cellular.   If your alarm system uses only the Verizon/US Cellular network, there is a good...

Verizon has confirmed that they have been experiencing service disruptions and outages since before lunch. You can check status in your area here: https://www.verizon.com/support/check-network-status/ You can report service disruption here:...