Re: Commercial Alarm - help

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"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> If I didn't know better, I'd say that your post was made by someone who
> didn't have a clue about the alarm installation business. Addtionally,
> I'd guess that you don't have much to do with residential or with the
> actual installation of systems or actually selling or talking to the
> end users. No insult intended but it sounds as if you've obtained all
> of your information about the alarm industry from reading articles in
> the newspapers.
>
> I'd place that as similar to reading the New York times to decide on
> your favorite presidential candidate.
>
> > For those who have real security needs, the intelligent video products
> > are starting to show real promise.  Even for basic systems, video
> > verficiation may fix half of the problem.
>
> Video hmmmm?
> Yep, I can just see it now.
>
> Yes Mrs Sloud. I'm proposing that we put cameras in your home so that
> if your alarm trips, we'll be able to look in your house and see if
> it's an actual break in or not. Annnnd of course, your bedroom is the
> most likely place that any intruder would go, so we're going to put TWO
> color cameras with remotely controled PTZ, in there...... OK?
>
> What's that you say? Can't we just turn them on and look in anytime we
> want to?
>
> WHY OF COURSE NOT! ....... Honest, Mrs Sloud, they only turn on when
> the alarm trips. Do you really think that ANYONE would do something
> like that?
>
> Oh ................ you do?

I can understand that way of thinking when your options are limited. I'm not
bashing you here Jim, but there are options, and many scenarios to every
install. You know that as well as anyone. The problem is, as one
professional to the other; let's just say we're in the future here, and
verification is in effect. What are the options? What are the options, not
based on what you know, but what's available, today, right now? I'm not
being a smart ass either, and there is no wrong answer.