WatchManager has released its latest software version (Ver 7.60 build 396) which includes amongst many enhancements, a revamped “Storm Mode” function.  Yes, climate change has meant more frequent storm-type disruptions that cause havoc in monitoring and response company’s control rooms, but the biggest headache and requirement now, is to manage our ever-worsening electricity load shedding…

The highly successful and very popular security control room software system known as WatchManager has just released its latest version update, V7.60 Build 381, for general distribution and download by its authorised and licenced international user base.  This update will only be available to clients whose annual licence fees are up to date or those…

The demand for video verification of an alarm trigger event in a control room is starting to gain serious traction, just in order to save costs and dramatically improve responses to events.  The savings are huge, and the benefits are even bigger.  There are numerous systems available, but your WatchManager team picked out a number…

Questions: What happens if your server / main PC / front end processor crashes? What happens if your client database gets corrupted? What happens if your system is damaged by viruses or ransom-ware? What happens if your control room is compromised by sabotage? The REAL questions are NOT what happens if, BUT RATHER, what happens…

Back in the day, as the expression goes, Security Control Room systems were nothing more than mobile Cardex trays and carts.  The client’s cards were shuffled between these, depending upon the type of event that was happening. Moving forward 30 years, WatchManager has become the most installed control room alarm monitoring system throughout Africa, with…