Re: Opinions on alarms systems configured/monitored over IP network

["Aegis" <lordaegis@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Pat Coghlan" <info@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm surprised no one has mentioned (knows about) the Summit eNT product
> from Edwards Security (http://www.edwards.ca).
>

In your original post, you indicated you already knew about that product and
asked for other product opinions.

> Of course, the website doesn't offer any useful information about the
> Summit eNT product, I just discovered.
>
> This is an enterprise product, providing ONLY alarm
> configuration/monitoring/reports and access control.
>
> As you indicated, most other companies really haven't focused on the
> security side of things.

Very close to 100% of those companies would disagree with you.

Just about every access system provides what you have decribed earlier:
- receive active alarms
- configure alarm inputs/relays/zones
- administer cardholders

AMAG, Hirsch, Casi-Rusco, Kantech, and even Northern have all of these
abilities.

>
> Jackcsg wrote:
>
>> "J. Sloud" <jsloud2001@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>
>>>On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:54:04 -0500, "Jackcsg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Few Enterprise solutions are
>>>>listed for fire, and I'm not just talking monitoring it, that's a whole
>>>>other issue, but the actual devices, installation.
>>>>
>>>
>>>A EST3 Synergy system would be one I'm familiar with.  Not only will
>>>it do access/ fire/ ba/ cctv but it will also interface via Lontalk to
>>>a host of other systems enabling true integration.
>>>
>>>Jack, what else out there will do the same?
>>
>>
>> Well there's only a few. More and more of the big access boys are getting
>> on
>> board with things like BacNet, Modbus, Lontalk, and some deeper PLC
>> Integration. Probably out of all the complete systems I've seen I'd have
>> to
>> say Andover Controls has some pretty decent stuff. Embedded servers are
>> just
>> starting to gain momentum, and the programmers are flooding the fields
>> now
>> with creativeness. The problem for most is, there are so many protocols
>> out
>> there, where do you focus? And who are/is your client. These technologies
>> mostly get born, as you know, from Government dealings. I've been
>> seriously
>> focusing on these embedded servers because there are a few which cross
>> with
>> multiple protocols, and communications. I know Siemens uses products
>> similar
>> to Andover Controls, and more and more big clients are looking at the
>> single
>> package. But....it's not all in house...yet. Electricians are getting
>> involved and finding a big niche.
>> MDI for a while in the early 90's also focused a little attention at
>> going
>> down that road as well. As far as I know, MDI was the first Enterprise
>> Platform to be UL listed for fire, where others followed only in the
>> monitoring side of things.
>> Johnson Controls and Honeywell are probably the most known, through name
>> recognition, but again, neither are total in house solutions.
>> AMAG now has a BacNet interface, and along with a DMP interface, so they
>> are
>> also a good consideration.
>> I think Lenel and Radionic's also have an Integration Package. I don't
>> know
>> where Lenel is on the PLC side of things, but the two owners (founders)
>> can
>> right some serious code.
>> That's only the security side of things....Turn to the PLC side of the
>> world....there are hundreds of companies with OAS, PLC Integration and
>> Automation. None of them have really focused on the security side of
>> things,
>> there's too much money in Industrial Systems.
>>
>>