Westec Achieves UL Certification

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westec Intelligent Surveillance, the nation’s largest remote video monitoring company, announced today that its monitoring facility and operations have achieved UL certification. With the addition of the UL certification, Westec becomes the only monitoring center to be both UL and ETL certified.

“We’re thrilled to be recognized by UL, a well-known gold standard demonstrating our technology and execution have been thoroughly tested and proven.”

The UL Certification signifies Westec has demonstrated that its monitoring facility and operations have met or exceeded industry operational and safety standards according to the following specifications:

UL 827 – Central Station Alarm Services
UL 1981 – Central Station Automation Software
NFPA 72 –The National Fire Alarm Code

"Working very closely with the UL team, Westec put in the long hours and hard work to assure it was in full compliance with all of the applicable UL standards,” said Steve Schmit, Operations Lead for UL.

"Westec is pushing the alarm and monitoring industry with unprecedented use of video and audio technology,” said Kelby Hagar, CEO of Westec. “We’re thrilled to be recognized by UL, a well-known gold standard demonstrating our technology and execution have been thoroughly tested and proven.”

About Westec Intelligent Surveillance

The pioneer of interactive video monitoring, Westec delivers the industry’s only intelligent business monitoring solution serving over 13,000 customers including Fortune 500 companies and smaller owner/operators throughout the U.S. Its strategic business solutions help leading retailers; restaurants and other companies improve operations and profits through intelligent business monitoring services. For more information on Westec Intelligent Surveillance, visit www.westec.net.

About UL

Underwriters Laboratories® is an independent product safety certification organization that has been testing products and writing standards for safety for more than a century. UL evaluates more than 19,000 types of products, components, materials and systems annually with 20 billion UL Marks appearing on 66,000 manufacturers' products each year. UL's worldwide family of companies and network of service providers includes 68 laboratory, testing and certification facilities serving customers in 102 countries.