December 2007

New Facility
ING Bank of Canada has awarded Fitch Surveillance the security contract for its new Montreal offices. Descriptive information on this project is not available to be released.

November 2007

New Project
Toddglen awards Fitch Surveillance the Chateau Royal Condominium Project, a 107 suite luxury condominium in Toronto. The project includes Panasonic cameras with GE digital recorders, a Keyscan Access Control system, static duress system and Dorguard intercom directories with a "no-phone-line" EnterPhone backplane.

August 2007

Facility Retrofit
Crown Property Management has awarded the contract to retrofit an existing outdated card access and CCTV system for a major office building in Don Mills. The system being installed will retrofit all existing base building access control with Keyscan and all CCTV systems to GE. Fitch will install systems allowing a wireless connections for both video and card access between two buildings not otherwise connected in any way. Fitch will also assume all aspects of the building's monitoring system.

Announcement
The Board of Directors for the Canadian Security Association (CANASA) in Ontario has re-elected Ed Fitchett (President of Fitch Surveillance) as President of its Board of Directors and again a seat on the National Board of Directors. This new two year term of office "... will oversee many of the changes both implemented and planned over the last two years which will be very exciting to see." states Mr. Fitchett.

CANASA has been in the forefront of representing security dealers and manufacturers alike and is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

System Upgrade
A prestigious North Toronto private school has awarded the security system installation and upgrading contract to Fitch Surveillance Systems. The facility currently has a small access control system and no CCTV equipment and will be not only adding more access control points and a new intercom system but will also get GE cameras with pan/tilt/zoom capability, all of which will be digitally monitored and recorded on GE DVRs. The facility will use a Keyscan access control solution, restricting access wherever appropriate without hampering essential day-to-day operations.

In the News
Fitch Surveillance president Ed Fitchett was featured in a current article on Installation in the August 2007 edition of SP&T News titled "From the Start". Click here to view the article on the SP&T News website in a new window.

July 2007

Continuing Development
PCL Constructors has awarded the next phase of Concord Adex's Condominium Project to Fitch Surveillance Systems. This latest high rise residential project temporarily called "Neo and Montage" includes all security systems for nearly 900 condominium suites in downtown Toronto, a full CCTV system, Keyscan Access Control system, duress system and touch-screen Mesh Directories with a "no-phone-line" EnterPhone backplane will be installed. This is the fifth such project Concord Adex through its General or Electrical Contractors have awarded to Fitch Surveillance since their beginning of development of the Toronto Rail Lands in 2002.

June 2007

New Project
Tridel awards Fitch Surveillance the NUVO-II Condominium Project, a 335 suite condominium in downtown Toronto. The project includes a full CCTV system with GE digital recorders, a Verex fully-integrated suite security intrusion and Access Control system, intercom duress system and touch screen Mesh Directories with a "no-phone-line" EnterPhone backplane. A single Verex integrated platform can control all aspects of building security. A single key chain "fob" performs building entry functions (both regular door and overhead doors). In addition the fobs provide built-in monitored panic alarm functions within the parking garage. The system not only helps determine where the person in duress is, but identifies the individual as well.

February 2007

Facility Redevelopment
An electrical Contractor has awarded the Security Contract to Fitch Surveillance for the first phase of the redevelopment of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) facility on Queen Street in Toronto. The systems consists of Keyscan access control and CCTV systems and will be mostly completed by the end of 2007.

The plans for the new site are to replace the existing institutional character of the site with a normalized setting for client/patient care by transforming the approximately 27 acre property into an urban village extending the neighborhood streets and creating a series of blocks with various open spaces and buildings. The initiative will regenerate the property, integrate CAMH into the surrounding community and contribute to the revitalization of the neighborhood. Evidence shows that people with mental illnesses and addiction respond best to treatment in "normalized" home-like and familiar environments. The redevelopment will help CAMH to improve the programs and services and build a better environment for client care.

Fitch Surveillance is proud to have a long and mutually beneficial relationship with CAMH and looks forward to these new beginnings!

Partner Press Release
Toronto based Fitch Surveillance Systems Inc. has been approved as an Enterprise Business Partner for the sale and service of GE Security's Facility Commander (Secure Perfect) and Picture Perfect (formerly Casi-Rusco) integrated security and access control product lines and also the SymSecure IP CCTV product line.

"Fitch Surveillance is a well known, fast growing Regional Dealer serving Southern Ontario who fits in well with our approach to offer our products to many different levels of end-users", says David Almasi, Canadian Sales Leader. "We are pleased to add them to an already strong group of GE partners".

Ed Fitchett, President of Fitch adds "That by representing these product lines, it not only solidifies our already strong past relationship that we have had with GE but creates opportunity for growth in areas that may have been previously difficult for us to apply product to".

Fitch has served the Toronto and surrounding areas in sales and the servicing of Access Control, CCTV, Intrusion, Monitoring and Intercom Systems for over 25 years.

January 2007

Announcement
The rules governing Daylight Savings Time have recently changed and may impact your security equipment. The explanation of the new rules, instructions for updating security equipment, and a table showing the changed dates can be found here. Please remember to set your access control systems accordingly!

System Expansion
An electrical contractor has awarded the security contract for the Richmond Hill Chinese Church - "an evangelical, multi-lingual, seeker-sensitive and life-development church striving to be a Church for the Unchurched & the Committed". This recent expansion added a second sanctuary for 3000 additional worshippers for which Fitch Surveillance was contracted to install CCTV, Access Control and Intrusion systems. Using Keyscan, Panasonic, GE and DSC products the existing building systems were in early 2008 fully integrated with the new.