Iq Certification Program

the installation quality certification program is the gold standard in the security industry and the outward symbol for an inward commitment to quality. iq was founded in 1997 by the nbfaa (now esa) to raise the security industry’s professionalism, improve alarm installation quality standards and provide consumers with a way to identify alarm companies that are committed to excellence. just as the quality benchmarks for manufacturing, retail and service have improved their respective industries, iq certification raises the professionalism and profile of the security and life safety industry as a whole. iq is endorsed by esa, csaa, sia, canasa, siac and fara. the program is based on common sense and on a simple principle: security and life safety systems that are properly designed, installed by trained technicians using the finest equipment, monitored correctly and operated by trained users typically function without fault, failure or false alarms for years. . to achieve iq certificatio