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

["James" <trishnjames@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the Alarm Center Software you are talking about is from SIS you can
expect to pay between 5k and 10k.  We have been using it for about 20 years,
"we started with the dos version".  The DOS version was excellent, the
windows version could use a little help.

James


"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.
>