Re: ELK-Guard wireless GSM alarm system

["G Mck" <mckenzieclan@>]

Thats just a rebadged Ness product from Australia.   They were originally
designed to install in a caravan or camper, but were soon being sold as
total home security systems - with the addition of a few wireless sensors.
Not unuusual to see invoices for $3000 or more.    The first ones had no
monitoring capability, but were sold as fully monitored units.  The
installation company gave cards to your neighbours with phone numbers to
ring a guard service if they heard your alarm going off.  That was their
idea of monitoring.

They are improved now, and may be suitable for certain applications , but
all the ones I have ever seen installed have been ripped out and thrown
away.  They were usually mounted in the corner of the lounge, with an ugly
sattelite siren directly outside (only one hole to drill).

Google "FAI Security Guard II" to find out about it's unloved past.

Ness sell the Elk M1 as their own product, so it is a tit for tat deal -
with Ness getting the better product to sell.

Graeme McKenzie

"Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Your link didn't work, but the product can be viewed here.
> http://www.elkproducts.com/elkguard/service_plans.html
>
> It sounds good, and I was thinking, "Wow.  I get calls quite often for
> something that can do this," until I read the following.
>
> Remote Arming/Disarming*
> Arming Schedules*
>
> (*) Not available when Elk Guard is set to "AC OFF" (i.e. Battery-Mode)
> I know it probably has to do with battery conservation.  The unit probably
> goes into some form of cellular sleep mode where it only turns on the
> radio when it needs to transmit, but still, that would be a definite
> training issue when selling.  Also, an issue for repeat clients of special
> systems who want to know why they can do it on some sites, but not on
> others.
>
> It would have been really cool to put this unit on a service trailer on a
> construction site, and show the manager how to remote arm, but you would
> need to provide AC even before the service pedestal was installed to give
> them the functionality they need.  That mean solar plus inverter which
> would drive the price of an installation back up.
>
> I went ahead and put in my info for a dealer application.  I don't see
> myself pushing this product heavily, but I can definitely see wanting to
> have it in my arsenal for some applications.
>
>
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> on who we do business with.
> Bob La Londe
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