Re: Which system is better?

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Bill wrote:

> As to monitored systems and response time, most home security systems
> basically pick up the phone, dial a number to an alarm business
> monitoring
> station, and transmit your alarm information to the alarm company. Then
> the
> alarm company picks up the phone and calls the police.

> The problem with this is many alarm monitoring centers are out of town.
> They
> will have one large center to serve a regional area. Sometimes the
> phone
> lines going out of town can be busy and your alarm system may need to
> call
> several times before it finally gets through. This is rare these days,
> but
> still happens sometimes.

> There are more expensive alarm systems available which are always
> connected
> to a separate phone line and instantly notify the alarm company if
> there is
> an alarm.

> So you get what you pay for, but if you need "for sure"
> instant
> notification, it is available.

> Then as to response time, in some areas the police get tons of false
> alarms.
> Burglar alarms go off, and most of the time it winds up being a
> malfunction
> of the alarm system. So the police get to thinking alarms are a waste
> of
> their time and take their time responding. Sometimes taking 30 minutes
> or
> longer to respond.

> But again you get what you pay for and can pay for optional services.
> Some
> alarm companies have private armed guards who will respond to your
> alarm
> quicker than the police. So you can have a private guard service
> respond as
> well as the police and chances are someone will show up sooner than if
> you
> had just the police responding.

> And the alarm monitoring company has people working there. When an
> alarm is
> transmitted to the alarm company, these people can notify anyone you
> want.
> Maybe you have a neighbor who is a good friend. The alarm company could

> notify the police and your neighbor. A neighbor would be able to get
> there
> quicker than anyone else. Or call you on your cell phone or call you at

> work. Whatever you want, mix/match!

> Also a monitored alarm system can send different signals or alarms. You
> can
> have burglar signal in which case they notify the police, fire signal
> in
> which case they notify the fire department, and medical in which they
> call
> the paramedics (or whoever you want). And you can have a remote control

> which you carry with you and this can signal an attack by an intruder,
> or it
> could be assigned to a medical alarm and maybe an elderly person in the
> home
> would carry it around - press the button if having medical problems.

> Or maybe you have a vacation home and the basement is prone to
> flooding, you
> could have a water alarm and the alarm company would notify just you
> for
> that specific signal. Or you may own a business and there is a lot of
> refrigerated meat - you could monitor the temperatures in the freezers
> and
> have the alarm company notify you (and others if you are not available)
> that
> the temperature is above a certain point or the electricity is off or
> both.

> Then you can have silent alarms where only a signal is sent to the
> alarm
> company or it could also sound a local siren, bell, etc. And each
> signal the
> alarm sends can be set as to if it sounds a local siren/bell or not.
> You
> could have a silent burglar alarm and also a fire alarm which has an
> audible
> alarm. These different alarms are called "zones" and can be
> programmed
> anyway you want.


> "O.B.McClintock"  wrote in message
>> We are modernizing our home and want a security system.  I am not
>> familiar with a monitored system as we have always had just a
>> local
>> alarm in the past. Can I get some honest input from people with
>> such a
>> system as to reliability and response time. This will help me make
>> a
>> decision. I am considering Electrowatchman, A.D.T., and Brinks.
>> Maybe
>> you all know of better ones. Thank you very much !!!