Protection One is the second largest electronic security company in the United States. The company has approximately one million home and business customers, 60 branch offices, and 2,400 employees.

Business Security

Protection One serves approximately 100,000 businesses with security services of various sizes, and boasts a national account team that provides installation, monitoring and service for national accounts and large business customers.

Residential Security

Protection One monitors hundreds of thousands of homes nationwide with security systems that are customized to the homeowner’s specifications. Protection 1 conducts home security evaluations before recommending specific security system components and design, and then monitors its components from one of their monitoring centers.

Web- and Text-enabled Remote System Access/Notification

With the launch of e-Secure in 2007, Protection One became the first national provider to introduce a Web-based service that enables its customers to access their own security systems through Internet-connected computers and cell phones. Protection 1 e-Secure customers also can receive e-mail and text notifications of certain events, as well as view video surveillance cameras via the Internet or cell phone.

Forbes.com List

In March 2008, Forbes.com published a list of America’s Most Trustworthy Companies. The list was based on an independent company’s research that ranked companies on honesty and openness. Protection 1 was the only security company listed.

Products and services

• Home and business burglar alarms
• Fire/smoke detection
• Carbon monoxide detection
• Remote video surveillance
• PERS monitoring (panic or hold-up button monitoring)
• 24-hour, company-owned, dedicated Commercial Monitoring Center
• Wireless primary and backup monitoring communicator
• Security systems service and maintenance
• Web- and text-enabled system access, control and notifications
• Access control with Online Reporting
• Customized Security Solutions

Protection 1 Technology Partners

Protection 1 partners with the follow security and technology companies:

• AT&T
  AT&T
  AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
  
  
• Verizon Wireless
  Verizon Wireless
  Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is one of the largest mobile network operators in the United States. The network has 107.7 million subscribers as of 2011, making it the largest wireless service provider in America....
  
  
• Bosch
  Robert Bosch GmbH
  Robert Bosch GmbH is a multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components...
  
  
• Brivo
• Samsung
  Samsung Group
  The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
  
  
• General Electric
  General Electric
  General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...
  
  
• Honeywell
  Honeywell
  Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....
  
  
• Speco

Industry Involvement

Protection 1 is endorsed by or has membership in the following organizations or associations:

• ASIS International
• Better Business Bureau (BBB)
  Better Business Bureau
  The Better Business Bureau , founded in 1912, is a corporation consisting of several private business franchises of local BBB organizations based in the United States and Canada, which work through their parent corporation, the Council of Better Business Bureaus .The Better Business Bureau, through...
  
  
• Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA)
  Building Owners and Managers Association
  The Building Owners and Managers Association , founded in 1907, is a professional organization for commercial real estate professionals and is the oldest and largest in its field. Its membership includes building owners, managers, developers, leasing professionals, medical office building managers,...
  
  
• IQ Certification
• National Burglar and Fire Alarm Association (NBFAA)
• National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET)
  National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies
  The National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies is an organization that was established in 1961 to create a recognized certification for engineering technicians and technologist within the United States....
  
  
• Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
  Underwriters Laboratories
  Underwriters Laboratories Inc. is an independent product safety certification organization. Established in 1894, the company has its headquarters in Northbrook, Illinois. UL develops standards and test procedures for products, materials, components, assemblies, tools and equipment, chiefly dealing...
  
  
• Factory Mutual (FM)
  FM Global
  FM Global is a U.S.-based insurance company, with offices worldwide, that specializes in loss prevention services primarily to large corporations throughout the world in the Highly Protected Risk property insurance market sector. "FM Global" is the communicative name of the company, whereas the...
  
  
• International Facility Management Association (IFMA)
  International Facility Management Association
  The International Facility Management Association is a professional association for facility professionals IFMA headquarters is located in Houston, Texas....