Burglar alarm monitor - Call the monitoring company if needed !

Burglar alarm monitor : Some systems are dedicated to one mission, others handle fire, intrusion, and safety alarms simultaneously. Sophistication ranges from small, self-contained noisemakers, to complicated, multi zoned digital systems with color-coded computer monitor outputs.

When an intruder trips (or triggers) a protected zone, activating a sensor, the Time Warner Security alarm siren sounds, letting the intruder know he‘s been discovered. The sensors also alert Time Warner‘s 24-hour monitoring center of the disturbance. Time Warner then calls your home to confirm the problem and contacts the proper authorities in the event of a true emergency.

Burglar alarm monitors and speaker phones allow for the central station to speak with the homeowner and/or intruder. This may be useful to the owner for medical emergencies. For actual break-ins, the speaker phones allow the central station to urge the intruder to cease and desist as response units have been dispatched. Remote alarm systems are used to connect the control unit to a prearranged monitor of some sort, and they come in many different configurations. High-end systems connect to a central station via a direct phone wire (or tamper-resistant fiber optic cable), and the alarm monitoring includes not only the sensors, but also the communication wire itself.

Similarly, some expensive systems incorporate a telephone dialer unit that will dial a central station (or some other location) and raise the alarm, either with a synthesized voice or an encoded message that the central station decodes. These may connect to the regular phone system on the system side of the demarcation point or at least ahead of all phones within the monitored premises so that the alarm system can cut-off any active calls and call the monitoring company if needed. Encoders can be programmed to indicate which specific sensor was triggered, and monitors can show the physical location (or "zone") of the sensor on a list or even a map of the protected premises, which can make the resulting response more effective.