Scott Crowther was attending the UKHA event on behalf of Intamac for the third year running. Intamac have been with us since we were meeting in a room above a pub in London, Scott has watched the UKHA event grow, as we have watch Intamac grow too.

Fresh from exhibiting at IFSEC 2004, the UK's largest security show, this year they were displaying the award-winning Home Manager, a web based alarm monitoring and messaging service. On the stand were the Axis 2100 and 205 IP Network Cameras. Intamac will soon be offering a camera monitoring system, enabling SMS text alert messages, or even photos via MMS to be sent to your mobile phone as well as emails and voice calls to be sent to friends or Group 4 guards when the cameras detect motion in your home!

Also on show was the BT Home Monitor, an inexpensive 24 hour monitored alarm system for your home. Fitted in under 1 hour, this wireless alarm system is monitored by Intamac.

In addition to security applications, Intamac are also now working in the field of Environmental Monitoring, monitoring server rooms and other technical equipment for power failure, temperature change, air flow, humidity, flood and more. Even though this system has just been introduced it has already saved a potential disaster where a system administrator was alerted in the middle of the night after the air-conditioning failed in his server room. The Intamac alert enabled him to have the system fixed quickly, thus saving the inevitable hardware failures.

As they expand I can see Intamac moving from simply alarm monitoring company to provider of sophisticated home automation solutions via the Internet.