Re: Video alarm verification

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have several thousand accounts, none of which use video alarm
verification.

False alarm ordinances vary by town/city. Some cities have them some don't,
and the ones that do the fines vary.

I operate in a metropolitan area that consists of approx. 10 town/cities.
The typical alarm ordinance in my area is something llike this:

If the permit is filed in a timely manner the user has a 30 day grace period
after the install and permit filed. Any false alarms during this period do
not count against the user.

After that period they are allow 4 false alarms within a 365 day period from
their LAST false alarm. On the first false alarm they get a letter, on the
second false alarm they get another warning, on the third false alarm they
will be assessed 50$ fine, forth goes to 75, fifth goes to 100. If false
alarms are excessive they will make the customer get the system fixed or
mandate it be deactivated.

In all towns the client & the alarm company (not the central station) are
jointly and severally responsible for fines.

All alarm users with legal permits are required to have their systems
inspected by the alarm company 1x a year.

The permit itself cost 10-15$ a year, and it's the client's responsibility
to file it and keep it current although we do provide a permit filled in
along with a mailing envelope properly addressed for them to mail.

In 20 years of dealing with this stuff, I've only had maybe 20 residential
clients actually get assessed a fine, because we are pro-active and watch
for false alarms regularly.




"Yongil" <disid386@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dfg8b1$bji$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I was told that there are some solutions about video alarm verification
> to reduce false alarm.
> The camera installed in customer's space sends some image data to
> monitoring center
> at the moment of open/close or burglar alarm happened.
> So monitoring center can detect whether current situation is real burglar
> or not.
>
> I have some questions.
> What is the financial benefit of central monitoring station and customer
> by using video alarm verification?
> How much false alarm dispatch penalty is in US?
> And who have to pay the penalty charged? - central monitoring station or
> customer.
> (Actually, I am not in US)
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Yong
>
>