Re: Tech question - interface between receiver and central station software

["mckenzie" <mckenzieatcleardotnet.nz>]

I just got the latest prices from Patriot.  Packages start at US $1200 for
500 clients, one workstation license.  $3500 for two workstations, and up
from there.
For 1200 bucks, it's not really worthwhile writing your own software is it?
http://www.patriotsystems.com/pricing.asp

Graeme McKenzie

"Greene Security NZ" <gs_newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1121087736.718906.46130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi there, hey thanks for all the tips and comments everybody. I am very
> "green" to all this as I have only been working in the security
> industry for a matter of months now, having spent the last 12 or so
> years in the computer industry. I understand basically what the
> templates are, such as Contact.ID, etc. They provide the interpretation
> for the data stream that comes from the receiver. Simple enough?
>
> The pricing I mentioned, of $50,000 is just something I pulled out of a
> hat. In reality, I have been unable to obtain pricing for the product I
> was looking at, which is called Alarm Center
> (http://www.securitysoftware.com) as they repeatedly ask me for the
> configuration of our current system, number of clients, etc, etc, etc
> before they will give me pricing. Surely someone in the security
> industry would understand that I am not authorised to give out that
> kind of information. Duh!
>
> Anyway, yes, I am slowly going to develop my own in-house system, so
> Robert L. Bass, your offer of assistance and advice is gratefully
> appreciated. I'm going to need all the help I can get. As for XML, I
> haven't even looked at that yet.
>
> If anybody has a good database schematic (ERD) for a simple alarm
> monitoring system I would really like to take a peek. I'm currently
> finding all kinds of pitfalls with the database design, and can see
> that my elementary knowledge of Normalisation (sorry, Normalization for
> the Americans amongst us) is going to be seriously put to the test on
> this project!
>
> For instance, putting the patrol and monitoring information together in
> the Client table was dumb, as it slowly dawned on me that you can have
> a client with monitoring but no patrol, or vice versa, and also either
> the patrol or the monitoring could be provided by a third party! Oops!
> As you can see, my lack of experience in the security industry is going
> to make this a tough ride.
>
> Anyway, thanks again for all the advice.
>
> Rob.
>