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Alarm Monitoring and Video Verification

After decades of wasting valuable resources attending to false alarms, it's no longer acceptable for many police departments to dispatch officers to an alarm event that is not accompanied by some form of video verification. A rapidly growing number of police departments are implementing a Verified Response policy that requires either a Central Station operator, or a person familiar with the property to visually verify an alarm in progress before they will respond.

This type of cutting edge video verification technology can only be implemented effectively over a broadband IP network (the Internet). As a burglar alarm panel is the only trusted method of alarm activation, this means that the first stage in achieving a verified response is to upgrade your alarm panel so that it can reliably transmit alarm signals over IP.

Linksys IP Alarm Monitoring Solution

The Linksys IP Alarm Monitoring Solution allows you to use "off the shelf" Linksys VoIP adapters to reliably and cost efficiently transmit alarm signals to our monitoring server over the Internet without using a VoIP provider network. We provide a very simple web site called a Provisioning Server, from where you can download custom settings into your Linksys device to optimize it for alarm monitoring. All you need to do is unplug your alarm panel from the wall jack, connect it with an RJ11 phone cable to any model of VoIP enabled Linksys equipment, connect the Linksys unit to your DSL or cable modem/router and your upgrade to IP is complete.

The Virtual Monitoring Platform

Virtual Monitoring is a fully automated, burglar alarm and video monitoring platform. With the help of custom provisioned Linksys devices, it is the glue that bonds your alarm panel to any number of IP Cameras and allows the safe storage of snapshot images on a remote server. This is all done without the use of any cables or connection of the cameras to the alarm system, so you are free to use any make and model of IP Camera that you like. Captured images can be emailed to any number of mobile devices or viewed by a trained monitoring operator to determine if a police response is required.

You are provided with 24/7/365 access to your account in the web platform from where you can control which of your contacts will receive email and SMS alerts when your alarm is activated. There is no better way to "future proof" your security system than upgrading with the Linksys IP Alarm Monitoring solution and no wiser choice of monitoring service than the Virtual Monitoring Platform.