How does alarm system monitoring actually work?
When the alarm system installed at your property reacts to an emergency condition, the control panel is activated. A component within that panel is encoded with various alarm messages and other vital information. This data includes your personal account number and the type of functions being monitored – for instance burglary, fire, panic, medical, and or other emergency codes. At the time of alarm activations, the control panel dials out over your existing telephone line and sends your system’s coded alarm signals to the Central Monitoring Station. There, your alarm signals are acted upon immediately. Upon receipt of this data the specially designed automated alarm monitoring equipment enables the security dispatchers: • To access the confidential, mission-critical account information, which is maintained for all customers • To relay this vital information to the emergency responding authorities • To advise the authorities of the nature of the emergency and to give them any special inf
