What We Learned About Wireless Alarm Monitoring

7 October, 2009

Alarm monitoring is one of those things that initially seemed unnecessary to our family. We had always been safety-conscious, and we had a house alarm that we installed ourselves. But then we started to pay a little more attention to the crime stats in our area, and made efforts to be more aware of the crime trends and typical response times if an emergent situation did arise and we were pretty surprised by all we learned.

It turns out that many police departments will stop responding to alarms at households that have had several false alarms. In a lot of precincts they actually require a third party, such as a security monitoring company, to confirm the need for law enforcement or other emergency aid. We were concerned that not having a monitoring service could delay the response time from police if a break in occurred at our house.

Another bit of information that impressed us was the fact that modern monitoring services use cellular towers instead of traditional phone land lines. The great thing about that is, even if some crafty criminal element cut the telephone line, our monitoring connections would still remain effective. That’s a real confidence-promoting factor!

The alarm systems used by most of the reputable security system providers are wireless these days, too. Along with the safety-enhancing feature of cellular monitoring, the wireless alarms are great because they don’t rely on regular power lines. When the electricity goes out that doesn’t compromise your family’s safety; the wireless alarms and monitors keep working!

Alarm monitoring is the perfect safety solution whenever you go on vacation. The old alarm that we installed ourselves was just fine when we were home, but it didn’t really provide the best protection for our property if we weren’t there. Maybe, if we were lucky, it would ring long enough and loudly enough for an irritated neighbor to call police but by that time any perpetrator would likely be long gone.

With an alarm monitoring service, we know a reliable, responsible watch is kept on our house even when we’re away. Monitoring services have response centers that are staffed round the clock with trained professionals. When the alarms go off, they know to check immediately for any false triggers and, when the authorities need to be called in, they immediately contact police or fire stations. If an intruder gets into your house or a fire starts up, you have the peace of mind that comes from knowing the home security monitoring service will get help out there right away, preventing loss of your belongings or excessive damage to your property.