What is the advantage of having a monitored smoke detector?
Having a monitored smoke detector at your premise ensures that the fire department will be contacted if you have a fire emergency. A good photoelectric smoke detector will detect smoke particles caused by even a slow smoldering fire. If you are not at home, and do not have a monitoring service, odds are no one will hear your smoke alarm when you have a fire condition! Therefore it is important that someone monitor this device 24 hours a day! With this service, your smoke detector is continuously monitored through a 24 hour zone, even when your alarm system is not armed!
Without a monitored smoke detector you have to be alert all the time and see that someone is around the house always. If you are not at home, there is very little chance that someone else hears the alarm and informs the fire department. Hence, with 24 hours monitoring of smoke detector our central station will continuously monitor your home for any alarm and will inform the proper authorities on any alarm condition. Besides this, smoke detectors that run on batteries need timely replacement of batteries; a monitored smoked detector will send a signal to the central station about a weak battery. Should I use an Ionization or Photoelectric smoke detector? Either technology can detect a fast flaming or slow smoldering fire, but response times can vary. Ionization detectors respond well to fast flaming fires, such as paper. Photoelectric detectors are well suited to detecting slow smoldering fires, which are often generated in households. Can my burglar alarm system detect a fire? A burgla
