From a business continuity perspective the reliability of the central station monitoring service for your security and life safety systems is extremely important. After your alarm system is installed – assuming it is installed expertly with quality parts, it should be trouble free for decades. There are only a few parts that need periodic replacement; e.g. batteries, carbon monoxide, and smoke detectors expire in time. Maintenance aside, over the long haul it is your central

The key to having an economical, long lasting, easy to service security or fire alarm system tailored to your needs is planning. It sounds simple, but it’s not. Serious planning takes time, and a proper team. In fact it goes way beyond the technology of your system. As a business, planning and system design specifications are a separate service you should pay for; leading to a “cheeses to cheeses” proper bid process. Most security and life safety systems installation companie

Just before the digital communicator revolutionized residential central station alarm monitoring in the late 1970’s were the days of the “Automatic Telephone Dialer”. This device was an add-on to the “local” burglar alarm systems of the day. It “pulse” dialed the phone number of the local police department and then played a pre-recorded message from an open real audio tape (something like the “Eight Track” tapes of the 1970’s and the cassette music tapes of the 1980’s.) When

Alarm monitoring has been around for well over one hundred and fifty years. In fact, the first monitoring for fire alarm signals date back to the 1850’s when the telegraph was used to send an address / location code to a telegraph office. In 1854 Dr. William Channing together with Moses Farmer of Boston Massachusetts applied for the patent of an “Electromagnetic Fire Alarm Telegraph for Cities”. One year later in South Carolina, John Gamewell purchased regional rights to mark