The Monitoring Association

On a cold night in 1949, eight men met in the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Their purpose in gathering that evening was to talk about forming an organization of approved central offices that would present their view to the Underwriters Laboratories and the Casualty Insurance Bureau and that would allow them to compete against industry giants such as Grinnell, ADT, etc.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation from ANSI that the Public Comment Period for its TMA-ATN-01 Monitoring Center Notification of Active Threat Detection is officially now open through April 1, 2025.

The Queen Anne’s County MD Emergency Services is the 131st Emergency Communications Center (ECCs) in the United States to implement The Monitoring Association’s (TMA) Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP).

The Monitoring Association (TMA) is pleased to announce that the application period for the inaugural Louis T. Fiore Electronic Communications Scholarship is now open.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tommy Whisnant to the co‐chairmanship of its Government Relations Committee.

March 16, 2023, McLEAN, Virginia—The Monitoring Association (TMA) is pleased to announce that Anita Ostrowski, Vice President of Central Station Services, Vector Security, and David Holl, Director of Public Safety, Lower Allen Township (PA), will serve as co-chairs of the ANSI-proposed TMA Monitoring Center Notification of Active Threat Standard (TMA-ATN-01) Committee.

January 2023. The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation that its TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard has received official ANSI accreditation. Initiated in 2020 in a joint effort between PPVAR and TMA, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems.

TMA-AVS-01 provides a standardized method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems that will assist law enforcement with resource allocation and Call for Service prioritization.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) welcomed Dynamark Monitoring, Inc. to its growing list of ASAP-to-PSAP connected monitoring centers – bringing the total number to 29. Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, TMA’s ASAP service is designed to increase the accuracy and efficiency of calls for service from alarm monitoring centers to Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs)/PSAPs.