How is this so? 911 Alarm's monitoring station is equipped with alarm monitoring receivers designed to receive signals from virtually every brand of security system, no matter if it was installed by a national alarm company, by an independent dealer, or by yourself.
You can
switch your security system to 911 Alarm quality monitoring service
for only $11.99 per month. Compare to others' monitoring rates of
$20 to $35 per month and save.
We are able to charge
only $11.99 per month, payable annually in advance, because we deal
direct with you. We do not sell through distributors or alarm
installers as most alarm monitoring stations do. You save the
middleman's markup which we pass along to you, while you receive
our quality monitoring service.
Beginning in 1968, and offering monitoring services on a retail and wholesale basis to the alarm trade in the metropolitan San Francisco, CA area, we obtained UL-listing in 1985. Our monitoring station is located within a fire-protected facility underground telephone and power lines, and dual power supplies to enable continued monitoring operations without interruption.
A SIMS computerized monitoring automation system provides our monitoring station the ability to monitor many thousands of security systems from across the United States quickly and accurately.
We are pioneers in audio security systems since 1980. Some security systems are equipped with the optional 2-Way-Voice feature enabling our monitoring station dispatchers, through speakers and microphones incorporated into the security system, to listen-in and to talk-back to the protected premises.
911 Alarm is an authorized Honeywell security systems dealer. Honeywell, a Fortune 500 company, has carefully selected its dealers across the United States.
Our monitoring station is connected to the Airlink alarm monitoring radio network which allows, for an additional fee, alarm signals to be transmitted to the monitoring station even if the security system's telephone line has been cut or is otherwise interrupted.
Our monitoring station monitors thousands of security systems for, among others: local and national government agencies, banks and financial institutions, schools, businesses and industrial facilities, and homes like yours.
I have been in the alarm business for over 30 years, performing technical, sales and management duties, and have been our President and General Manager since 1980. I have served four terms as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the EastBay Alarm Association. I am also a forensic consultant and expert witness concerning security system failures and related matters.
Whatever your monitoring needs, we will
respond with professional attention and value-pricing.
When an alarm condition occurs, your security system "seizes" your telephone line from your telephone instruments, dials the telephone number of the alarm receiver connected to our monitoring station, transmits to the receiver digital data identifying your system's account number and alarm condition, then releases your telephone line.
Upon our receipt of an alarm signal from your security system, dispatchers in our monitoring station will attempt contact at the telephone numbers provided by you as follows:
Our Two-Step Verification and Notification proceedure is designed to reduce false alarms. If it is not appropriate for your needs, our monitoring automation system allows us to customize our response to fit your varied needs. Let us know if your needs are different.
We also provide special 911 Alarm door/window warning decals for your premises.
Optional Additional Monitoring Services We Offer:
Fire/Sprinkler Alarm, with daily Autotest
for commercial premises.
If your security system has
the capability and transmits once per day the appropriate autotest
signal to verify the connection to the monitoring station's alarm
receiver, our Autotest service can monitor for those signals for no
additional charge, and,
for an additional $5 per event, we can notify you by telephone call
in the event we do not receive the expected "autotest" signal from
your system.
Elevator Emergency Telephone Monitoring
Service.
Most elevators are required to be equipped with a telephone which is
connected to an off-site response agency such as ours.
We provide this service for $11.99 per month. We recommend that
an ADA compliant telephone instrument, connected to its own
telephone line, be installed in the elevator cab for this purpose.
Our monitoring station manager reports that for a recent period the average response time was slightly under 30 seconds. While not a guarantee that this will be our response time for all signals, or of the manner or timing of the response by your local police or fire department, it does indicate that we keep precise records and that we endeavor to perform our duties with timeliness and accuracy.
The Capture Awards confirm that our timely and accurate alarm monitoring service has resulted in the apprehension of no less than 168 'suspects', even including two on-duty police officers.
This means that, in most every case, no changes (apart from re-programming the telephone number of the monitoring station alarm receiver to be dialed) need be made to the security system already installed at your premises.
While most alarm dealers install "industry standard" equipment such as the above brands, you may not recognize the brand used in your installation because the installer has installed a "private label" version which still operates the same as those listed above. We can monitor most "private label" equipment, too.
Some alarm dealers, most commonly larger national companies, sometimes install incompatible "proprietary" equipment with the effect of preventing you from having your security system monitored by anyone else.
To preserve
your options, if you are considering the purchase of a security system,
we suggest you make certain that the equipment to be installed is not
"proprietary", that you obtain from the dealer the "master program
code" and the "lockout code" for your system, and that you verify that
the dealer has not placed into your security system
a "local-programming lockout" virus.
There are many brands of DIY security systems on the market, including several available from the vendors linked from our Home page. Some brands to consider: Ademco, First Alert Professional, Honeywell.
For instance, Al Lasher's Electronics, telephone 510.843.5915, carries several brands of professional security systems starting at around $250 and offers installation advice.
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