Universal Atlantic Systems Named TMA’s Monitoring Center of the Year
Universal Atlantic Systems has been named The Monitoring Association’s (TMA) 2021 Monitoring Center of the Year. The TMA Monitoring Center Excellence Awards recognize any FM Approved, Intertek/ETL or UL-Listed central station and outstanding personnel who perform in the highest professional manner, thereby making a significant contribution to the betterment of the alarm industry and the alarm profession while demonstrating exceptional service to their customers and community. The TMA Excellence Awards Program is co-sponsored by SDM Magazine.
“We are honored to receive such a prestigious award from TMA,” said Scott Elkins, president of UAS. “This year, more than most, it was about the entire organization coming together to do what we do best, and that is to take care of and serve our customers in the most challenging environment that we have had in our careers.”
“Congratulations to Scott Elkins and the UAS team,” said Karyn Hodgson of TMA. “This honor is only awarded to leaders who are heavily involved in bettering the industry through volunteering with industry associations to advance important issues such as standards, public sector engagement, and legislation.”
Headquartered in suburban Philadelphia, UAS is a national provider of integrated security services protecting over 15 billion in commercial assets for a diverse client base including: food service providers, convenience stores, retailers, equipment rental dealers and other asset-intensive outdoor facilities. UAS is a provider of physical security systems designed to protect people and property, from Access Control and CCTV to Fire Systems and Security Systems.
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.