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The Control Equipment is the brain of your alarm
system. It contains all the circuit boards and the back up battery (used
to keep the system running in the event of a power cut) The Control
Equipment can have an on-board key pad and/or a remote keypad depending on
the model.
The Keypad is were the user operates their alarm system
from. This can be at a remote location from the control equipment or
sometimes an on-board keypad is used (usually when the control equipment
is on display)
A door contact is a detection device that monitors when
a door is open or closed.
A Passive Infrared Detector (PIR) uses passive infrared
waves to monitor movement in a protected area.
A dual Technology Detector (DT) uses passive infrared
in the same way as a PIR but also uses microwave technology to monitor
movement at the same time. Both the passive infrared and microwave
technology must detect movement to trigger an alarm reducing the risk of
unwanted false alarms.
Smoke detectors can be added to your alarm system.
There are different types of smoke detection devices depending on the
application.
Personal Attack or Panic Buttons are used in the case of an emergency
and trigger the alarms instantly for example if a person tried to force
there way in through your front door you can press your panic button, which
will trigger the alarm.
The Internal and External Sounders are the parts of
your alarm that make the noise to signal the alarm has been activated. The
External Sounder also has a strobe unit to give a visual conformation that
the alarm has activated.
The Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) is where all signals
from monitored alarms are sent. The staff at the ARC vet the signals
received and action them according to current policies and the customer's
requirements.
A Digital Communicator (often called a Digi)
sends a signal, using your phone line, to the Alarm Receiving Centre every
time an activation occurs on your alarm.
Redcare is a type of alarm monitoring
provided by BT. You need a phone line that has been activated for Redcare
(don't worry we will do this for you) Once it has been set up the alarm
sends a signal to the Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) every five seconds.
This signal shows the current state of the alarm and will also let the
staff at the ARC know if communication has stopped, so you know if some
body has tried to cut your phone line.
Redcare GSM works in the same way as standard
Redcare (Above) but in addition to monitoring your alarm on your land
line, Redcare GSM also has a mobile phone SIM card. In the event of your
land line being disabled the alarm will continue to send updates on its
current state over a mobile phone network.
The Association of Chief Police Officers
(ACPO) set requirements for a monitored alarm system. These requirements
are designed to reduce the amount of false alarms police offices have to
attend.
A speech dialler is a device that will call
up to four different phone numbers (including mobile telephones) and then
give a pre-recorded message informing the person at the other end of the
line the alarm has been activated.
Wire free detection can be added to an alarm
and can be installed where no wires are wanted on view and the property
prevents cables from a wired alarm being hidden. A wireless alarm is just
as reliable as a wired system but for insurance purposes can only be a
grade 2 system according to the guide lines of PD6662:20004, BS EN
50131-1:2004.
All customers with a monitored alarm system get three lives from the
police in a rolling year, this means that if you lose one life in January
and do not lose any more before the following January your lives will go
back up from two to three. |
