Re: Why not use two seperate panels when designing a high end system?

["Stanley Barthfarkle" <sbarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

"SecurityNovice" <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Here is something that to me seems so obvious, but something that I have
> never seen or employed personnaly.  Lets say for example I am designing a
> system for a high end jewelry store.  I call for my glass breaks, my
> motions, a Potter vibration on the safe, high security contacts on the
> doors, and maybe a mat..  then I go home and the customer feels safe.
>
> But for just another 175, the customer could buy a seperate panel just for
> the interior safe contact and the vibration detector.  This way, if the
> intruder found his way into the store and bypassed the perimeter alarm, he
> would think he is home free.. But when he gets to the mother load, he is
> met
> by another independent syste.  Of course, the panel would be installed
> away
> from the primary panel and a radio or cell could be used to transmit the
> signal.. My question is.. it's so obvious that it would be money well
> spent,
> why does no one do it???  Am I not seeing the big picture?


If it is a properly designed system, he isn't going to defeat the primary
system before being detected and reported. Multiple "layers" of security
such as perimeter, interior, and "trap" devices such as safes, drawers, bill
traps, etc, are used to accomplish what you are suggesting. A properly
designed system control will be in a secure location, and have communication
redundancy through phone line hardening, dummy phone line tamper, and backup
communication.

As an aside, many modern systems include the capability to have separately
functioning "partitions", which function as independent alarm systems. This
would allow the store and safe to be on separate systems, using the same
control and communicator hardware.

Install a system per UL certificated specs and you'll be fine.