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

[J. <jsloud2001donospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:02:30 -0400, "SecurityNovice" <nospam@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

>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?
>

I've seen at least one cash vault set up this way.  We installed the
system for the acutal vault and Security Link put the system on the
building.  When we bought Slink, there was some question as to the
reasoning and whether or not they'd have to find another company to
take over one of the systems.  According to the customer, they wanted
to make sure that they had redundant monitoring from two entirely
different places in case something got screwed up on that end.  As
long as the signals from each panel went to a different monitoring
center, they were okay with it.  You've all heard of this customer.
They're one of the big armor car services around, and they compete
with most of you in the alarm business everyday.