Professional Alarm Monitoring:

Central to the value of your security system is effective remote monitoring. A local alarm that only sounds a siren or bell has value because it can warn you that an intrusion is in progress, but only if you are there to hear it. If you’re not there, a siren or bell will scare off intruders only if they think others will hear it and act quickly enough.

A local alarm may alert neighbors, but solely relying upon this type of alert has proven to have severe limitations and some terrible potential consequences.  Neighbors may not be home. Neighbors likely won’t know what to do, who to call or may not care. Is it a burglary attempt, fire or just another false alarm?? If they approach to determine what type of emergency it is, they may put themselves in harm's way.

With a system monitored by professionals, response is fast. When your alarm sounds, the signal transmits to the monitoring station for verification and dispatch of the authorities in your community. With 24 hour monitoring, you aren’t leaving security to chance.

A simple alarm without monitoring ignores all the other value an alarm can deliver: in a panic situation,  a medical alert to bring the rescue squad, etc. With no monitoring, a smoke alarm can beep and with no one to hear it, the fire burns on and on. With monitoring? Fast dispatch of the Fire Department.

While it may be hard to believe, some alarm dealers use answering services and an emergency alarm may not receive any more priority from them than any other type of call. An answering service, often can’t even get messages right.

Professional Alarm Monitoring Reliability:

Professional Alarm Monitoring services are supervised and verified in four ways to ensure accurate communication: First, the monitoring center continuously monitors the alarm and if the connection is lost (due to equipment/power failure, phone line cut, etc), an alarm is raised to resolve this problem.

Second, the alarm from your premises to the monitoring service is verified back to the alarm so it knows the message got through.

Third, the monitoring service will call your premises to verify this is not a false alarm.

Fourth, the monitoring service is available 24/7/365 to take your call from any location to cancel a false-alarm dispatch in progress (if you provide the right security codes).

Partner Alarm Monitoring Pricing & Options:

Our 1/08 cost comparison of alarm monitoring services found:
- ADT pricing was $34.99/mo for 36 months minimum
- Brinks pricing was $27.99/mo for 36 months minimum
- Our Partner pricing is $19.87/mo for 12 months minimum

*Above price comparison is for residential alarm monitoring.