Ogden-based alarm monitoring firm AvantGuard, a Becklar company, has announced its acquisition of Armstrong’s National Alarm Monitoring of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, and its monitoring centers and offices in Dartmouth, Montreal, Edmonton and Moncton, Canada. The acquisition gives AvantGuard, which offers wholesale monitoring, caller ID injection, cloud and hybrid monitoring for IoT, fire and security markets, eight monitoring centers across the U.S. and Canada.
Armstrong’s National Monitoring Centers founder Gary Armstrong opened his first central monitoring station in 1989. The company now serves over 800 alarm dealers in its network.
“AvantGuard is the perfect match for Armstrong’s Monitoring. Both organizations share an intense commitment to service with core values built around genuinely caring for the safety and well-being of others,” said Armstrong, who will remain as an active strategic advisor to the company.
“The Armstrong’s brand is the model of commitment and caring to their dealers. In sharing the same passion and commitment for servicing our dealers and their customers, we are happy and proud to welcome the Armstrong’s team and brand into the AG family,” said Justin Bailey, president of AvantGuard. Bailey said that Armstrong’s National Monitoring Centers will continue to operate in the same locations under the Armstrong’s brand and will retain their existing employees.
Bailey said AvantGuard plans to invest heavily in Armstrong’s facilities infrastructure and technology with over $500,000 in technology investments alone in the first year.
AvantGuard is part of the Becklar family of connected safety solutions for enterprises and individuals.