Save this house for $14?

March 26, 2012

On Friday, March 23, 2012, my wife and I were driving to dinner in remote Northern New Mexico. We had just enjoyed a great day of skiing.  However, this story is not about skiing. We were looking for a little pizza joint in a tiny town called Mora.  We had eaten there before. As we […]

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Outdoor motion sensors – Construction site security

March 15, 2012

Over the past twenty five years, our company has seen many versions of outdoor motion detection come and go.  Until a year ago, I had yet to see an outdoor detector that wasn’t prone to false alarms. We even tried some high end detectors that retailed for over $1,500, not including wiring and labor.  Sooner […]

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Controversial? Buy an alarm, get a shotgun.

July 25, 2011

Starting on July 25th, 2011, OMNI ran the following ad on Houston’s local radio show, AM950,  during the Michael Berry program: OMNI Shotgun offer – home security  <CLICK LINK to hear our radio commercial. The ad offers a free shotgun with our ULTIMATE ALARM PACKAGE.  Yes, we are serious.  In today’s world, we feel like […]

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Texas DPS warns of aggresive door to door alarm sales.

May 12, 2011

Texas Department of Public Safety May 11, 2011 DPS warns of aggressive summer door to door alarm sales The Texas Department of Public Safety is urging Texas residents to make sure that any alarm salesperson, company or alarm installer that they hire is licensed by the DPS Regulatory Services Division. Historically, some alarm salespersons have […]

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Copper theft:

May 11, 2011

In case you haven’t heard, there has been a rash of air conditioners being stolen and vandalized throughout Texas. I am hearing of these crimes on almost a daily basis now. The crooks are stripping air conditioner units of their copper, while destroying and vandalizing the units. Often they are climbing on top of large […]

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Can video reduce your security expense? Video Guard Patrol

April 24, 2011

For years there has been a missing piece in the electronic security industry. We can install cameras for our clients. We can also install alarm systems to detect intruders. They can certainly supplement each other. But what happens when, particularly outdoors, an intruder is not in an area where there is alarm coverage, and we […]

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Big box vs. Local company

April 24, 2011

What is the difference between dealing with the large national “mega” alarm companies and a local dealer like OMNI? This is what our clients tell us: 1. They don’t like wading through touch tone phone menus to reach a person. 2. They prefer not to have a different tech come to their home \ office […]

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Houston to improve dispatching process

December 16, 2010

The process for dispatching alarms is about to improve in Houston, Tx. For the past 20 years or so, when an alarm was activated, the operator at the alarm monitoring center would verbally call in the alarm to the police dispatcher.   The dispatcher would input the alarm data into the police system, and then […]

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Has your family done a fire escape plan?

November 13, 2010

Order up some pizza! Turn off the TV! Get the family together for a fire escape plan party! Seriously, are your children safer at school than at home? Think about it, at school they probably have a monitored fire alarm, AND they practice exiting the building during fire on a regular basis. When is the […]

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Security Cameras: Vehicle viewing

September 23, 2010

A long standing issue for capturing vehicle images at night has been the tendency of the headlights to overpower the imaging chip, leaving the end user with videos of a bright set of headlights, with little or none of the vehicle. Solutions to this have been spotty and expensive. There is however, a new technology […]

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