UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 20549


                                    FORM 8-K

                                  CURENT REPORT

     Pursuant  to  Section  13  OR  15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

                                January 24, 2005
                Date of Report (Date of earliest reported event)

                          Sentry Technology Corporation
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its chapter)

    Delaware                    1-12727                 96-11-3349733
(State  or  other             (Commission              (IRS  Employer
jurisdiction  of              File  Number)         Identification number)
incorporation)

  1881  Lakeland  Avenue,  Ronkonkoma,  New  York                 11779
  (Address  of  principal  executive  offices)                 (Zip  Code)

                                  631-232-2100
              Registrant's telephone number, including area code


                                      None
         (Former name or former address, if changed since last report )


                 INFORMATION  TO  BE  INCLUDED  IN  THE  REPORT

Item  1.02     Termination  of  a  Material  Definitive  Agreement

(a)(1)     Lowe's  Home  Centers, the Company's largest customer, terminated its
CCTV  equipment  maintenance  agreement  with  the  Company on January 21, 2005.

(a)(2)     The  Lowe's  maintenance  agreement  was  approximately  $850,000  of
Sentry's  total  revenue  in  2004.

(a)(3)     Lowe's  Home Centers has selected one of the Company's competitors as
the  single  vendor  to  service  CCTV equipment installed in its stores. Sentry
expects  to  continue as a Lowe's supplier, selling its SentryVision  SmartTrack
traveling  camera  system.

(a)(4)     No  material  early  termination  penalties  were  incurred  by  the
registrant.

A  copy  of the Company's News Release issued on January 24, 2005 is filed as an
exhibit  to  this  report  and  is  incorporated  in  this  report by reference.


Item  7.     Financial  Statements  and  Exhibits.

Exhibit  99.1          Company  News  Release  dated  January  24,  2005.


Item  8.01     Other  Items.

On  January  24,  2005, the Company issued a News release announcing a change in
the  name  of three of its wholly owned subsidiaries. A copy of the News release
is  attached  hereto  as  Exhibit  99.1.

                                   SIGNATURES

Pursuant  to  the  requirements  of  the  Securities  Exchange  Act of 1934, the
registrant  has  duly  caused  this  report  to  be  signed on its behalf by the
undersigned  hereunto  duly  authorized.


Sentry  Technology  Corporation

Date:  1/24/05                            /s/ Peter J. Mundy
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                                          Peter  J.  Mundy,  VP  and  CFO





EXHIBIT  INDEX

99.1     Company  News  Release  dated  January  24,  2005.


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                         News  Release



FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE                    CONTACT:     Peter  Murdoch
- -----------------------                                 President  &  CEO
                                                        (631)  739-2000


       ID SYSTEMS & KNOGO NORTH AMERICA CHANGE NAMES TO SENTRY TECHNOLOGY

     RONKONKOMA, January 24, 2005 -- Sentry Technology Corporation (OTC Bulletin
Board: SKVY) announced today the change in the name of three of its wholly owned
subsidiaries,  ID  Systems  USA  Inc., ID Security Systems Canada Inc. and Knogo
North America Inc., to Sentry Technology USA Inc., Sentry Technology Canada Inc.
and Sentry Technology Corporation, respectively. As part of an ongoing effort to
consolidate  operations  and  to  better  focus market presence, all ID Systems,
Knogo and Sentry product lines will be sold under the Sentry Technology name and
corporate  logo.

"Following  the  acquisition  of  the  ID  Systems  group  by  Sentry Technology
Corporation  in  2004,  sales  representatives  have been trained on the product
lines  of  all  companies,"  said  Peter L. Murdoch, President and CEO of Sentry
Technology  Corporation.  "We  have chosen Sentry Technology as the single trade
name  to  grow  the  combined  businesses and believe we can build better market
recognition  by  concentrating  on  a  single  brand  strategy."

In  other business, Lowe's Home Centers, Sentry's largest customer, has selected
one  of the Company's competitors as the single vendor to service CCTV equipment
installed  in  its  stores.  Sentry  expects  to  continue as a Lowe's supplier,
selling  its  SentryVision  SmartTrack  traveling  camera  system.  The  Lowe's
maintenance  agreement  was  approximately $850,000 of Sentry's total revenue in
2004.

Sentry  Technology  Corporation  designs,  manufactures,  sells  and  installs a
complete  line of Radio Frequency (RF) and Electro-Magnetic (EM) EAS systems and
Closed  Circuit Television (CCTV) solutions.  The CCTV product line features the
proprietary SentryVision SmartTrack patented traveling Surveillance System.  The
Company's products are used by retailers to deter shoplifting and internal theft
and by industrial and institutional customers to protect assets and people.  The
Company's  acquisition  of  ID Systems expands the Company's product offering to
include  proximity  Access  Control  and  Radio  Frequency Identification (RFID)
solutions.  For  further  information,  please  visit  our  website  at
www.sentrytechnology.com.

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     This  press  release  may  include  information  that  could  constitute
forward-looking  statements  made  pursuant  to the safe harbor provision of the
Private  Securities  Litigation  Reform  Act  of 1995.  Any such forward-looking
statements may involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from any future results encompassed within the forward-looking
statements.  Factors  that could cause or contribute to such differences include
those  matters  disclosed  in  the  Company's Securities and Exchange Commission
filings.