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Alarm Applications

Reliable, Secure Alarm Data Communications without the Communication Costs

In the fire and security industry, there is a basic requirement to quickly and reliably transmit alarm data from remote alarm panels to a central monitoring station, which may be located at the same location as the alarm panel, but equaly may be located in a remote office.

There are the obvious requirements for quick and reliable alarm data transmission, but also the following need to be given careful consideration.

Transmission speed

An alarm signal will be recieved from within 2 to 90 seconds from incident occurence. Delay is dependent on number of SSTs the signal needs to travel through before reaching the Central Receiver

Redundancy

By using a constantly monitored mesh netowork, should there be a point of failure at one of the SST  an alternate route is immediately calculated ensuring that the alarm message ALWAYS gets through

2-Way communication

2-Way communication assures that data is received and authenticated at every step.  The transmitting device recieves and acknowledgement for every data packet sent. Many other devices do not use this protocol meaning that data can be lost.  This feature also allows the user to remotely test and program the communications network

Keeping the costs down

Minimise or completely eliminate on going monthly communicaitonscosts associated with traditional alarm monitoring networks.  The User is in control of the costings, there are no telephone charges or direct wire installation, derived channels are being phased out due to lack of up take, cellular can prove un reliable and not always available and Satellite is very expensive.

Installation and maintenance

Although we would always recommend that the initial installation is carried out by a professional, additional remote sites can be added quickly and easily.

Compliance

Network systems need to comply with the regulations set down by the relevant local authority edict relating to narrow band wireless monitoring.  In the UK this is handled by OFCOM a licence can usually be obtained within a month, outside of the UK assistance can be given as to the correct authority to contact.

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