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....

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....

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...