Is Internet Monitoring the Future of Alarm Monitoring?
There has been a recent revolution in alarm monitoring. With the advent of the Internet, more small businesses and homeowners are jumping on the broadband bandwagon. The alarm industry is slowly following in this high-tech approach to security. Traditional telephony equipment has served the industry well, but there have always been limitations to how the alarms are sent to the central station and how often. Internet monitoring has the ability to maintain an always ON connection to the central station, which dramatically improves the speed and reliability of alarm communications. To maintain a reasonable level of reliability and security, we have had to rely on the local telecommunications of the installations, which many times have to implement radio or cellular backups. If you needed superior security and response time, you may have had to use high-security radio devices that can prove to be very costly in the long run. Even with these backup devices, there are limitations. One simple
