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Re: WHAT recession ?



On Jan 16, 9:43=A0pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 16, 9:06=A0pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > RHC: Another home run ! IMO right on all counts, especially about the
> > mass marketers moving into the "glitz" market, and taking a sh*t
> > kicking once they find the service levels required. =A0The conventional
> > alarm manufacturers are far too slow to adapt, and are still behind
> > the eight ball, but give them a year or two of pressure from the
> > smaller installation companies (who themselves will increasingly get
> > pressure from their customers), and we will start to see them move
> > into the 21st century....ie: panels with IP connectivity built in to
> > the board for one....
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> > I had a long conversation on the weekend with a party who is quite
> > high up on the technical side of Rogers Cable up here. He gives them
> > about 5 years max before they learn their lesson again and back out of
> > the security market. Unfortunately, once they do, there will be
> > thousands of customers left without service since I have my doubts
> > about anyone ever wanting to pick up this hardware (they'll have to
> > sell it all off to an ADT type buyer....)
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> Heeey. Now there's an idea. I seem to remember a start up company many
> years ago that built a nice little business doing takeovers on these
> kinds of accounts. =A0 Hmmmm Where did I hear about that?
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> > I'm installing a system on Wednesday with the IP100 interface from the
> > alarm bus to the clients router, so he can control things from his
> > smart phone. Done it a couple of times now, and feedback has been
> > super positive. No question, that's the way it's going, but hopefully
> > with conventional QUALITY alarm equipment not the current wave of stuff=
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> Whatsa IP100?
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> Who's product are you using and on which panel?
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> Napco has a similar device but .... for me, at least, it hasn't reach
> an acceptable price point that the client is willing to pay for.

RHC: Ha....I'll dodge your initial comment for the time being....:))

The IP100 module is a unit designed to interface a current line
Paradox panel (SP series, Magellan series) with the internet. Wired
directly in to the alarm bus, and plugged into a port on the customers
router, it allows the client to access his alarm panel from a
smartphone. Then with a $9 app he buys from Paradox, he can arm and
disarm remotely, get emails upon alarms or troubles, see his event
log, and with the exception of cameras, he can do much of the
ballyhoo'd "glitz" of the latest IP alarm offerings. Add a couple of
inexpensive low end DLink cameras and a free app, and he get's most
everything he needs for complete remote control of his alarm system
(with the notable exception of the thermostat thingmabobs). And he
doesn't have to pay some slick mass marketer $55 a month
either....none of this raises his monitoring rates by a penny !!

The IP100 module is about a hundred and a half, but that's quickly
saved with no increase in his monitoring fees.


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