The legacy method of alarm transmission is one that involves a transmitter and a receiver.
However, that model does not work for IP.
Because the network and the ARC need protecting from the bugs that can exist on the Internet.
Our network is directly compatible with intruder alarm panels that support either SIA or Contact ID
transmission. It is also provides polling over IP, for example, Honeywell and GE equipment can be
connected and polled without the necessity for a separate “transmitter/converter”. There are several
advantages to this way of transmitting alarms, not least of which is the ability to monitor in virtually real
time the state of the alarm sensors.
With so called “universal transmitters” and older equipment all you get at the alarm centre is “there is
an alarm”, no information about the state of the sensors, and that is pretty pointless. For years the
solution to many false alarm issues has been at our fingertips. For some reason in the past we preferred
to not use the information about how the sensors are reacting on-site.
But now we can and it makes a huge difference to how an operator at the control room assesses
whether to send a response to an alarm, or not.
Older Alarm systems that do not support IP connectivity can still be connected to the VerifiedAlarms
network using our Z-Core transmitter.
