Monitored Alarm Systems
'SELF-MONITORING' YOUR ALARM VIA MOBILE PHONE
Can the Ness Monitored Alarm System be 'self-monitored' to your mobile phone?
Yes it can, but it's not a good idea if you're serious about your security!! Pseudo alarm monitoring to your mobile phone is not recommended by Harvey Norman Security for many reasons including:
Back-to-base security alarm monitoring and response is a job for licensed security professionals.. If you're serious about your family security, then it's the only option.
Can the Ness Monitored Alarm System be 'self-monitored' to your mobile phone?
Yes it can, but it's not a good idea if you're serious about your security!! Pseudo alarm monitoring to your mobile phone is not recommended by Harvey Norman Security for many reasons including:
- SMS/text messaging is not designed for security functions - there are often long delays before 'packets' of data can be sent (for this reason the Australian Telecommunications User Group (ATUG) specifically recommends against this practise)
- If an intruder sets off your monitored alarm system, you may be on the phone, your mobile may well be out of range, switched off, or batteries run down. Our monitoring centre, however, is staffed 24 hours a day
- Perhaps the time when back-to-base monitoring is most important is in a 'home invasion' situation, when you can activate your 'emergency' button alerting security officers that you're in a personal at-risk situation. This function operates even when your alarm is switched off. Sending a message to a mobile phone (which is probably with you at home) is definitely not a good idea in these circumstances
- If your alarm system has a fault it will report the fault via the telephone line to the monitoring station, which will then be aware of the specific fault and contact you to rectify the problem. If your alarm system is not monitored you will not know. And a mobile phone cannot identify a fault signal
- Monitoring centre security officers are able to identify the exact alarm point, and also know if multiple alarms have occurred (meaning that it's almost certain that an intruder is moving around within the premises). Your mobile phone cannot access to this important information
- Licensed security officers can quickly notify appropriate emergency response authorities, and will follow through and resolve in accordance with your pre-determined instructions
- If your monitored alarm system has smoke sensors connected, your mobile phone will not be able to identify a smoke alarm (which obviously requires a different and most urgent response)
- Simply put, you installed a security system because you''re serious about your personal security. After the 12-months pre-paid monitoring period, our Australian Standards certified alarm monitoring centre has trained and licensed officers on duty to quickly receive and respond to your alarm for around a dollar a day
Back-to-base security alarm monitoring and response is a job for licensed security professionals.. If you're serious about your family security, then it's the only option.
Security sentry
Take control of your security needs with the range of monitored alarm systems on offer from Harvey Norman Security.For serious security coverage at your home or work, you should consider the range of monitored alarm systems on offer at Harvey Norman Security. Back-to-base monitoring products offered by Harvey Norman Security use state-of-the-art security detectors that will sound local sirens as well as immediately contact the base alarm monitoring system to notify trained personnel of an alarm event.
This solves the issue of wondering if your neighbours will simply ignore the alarm, and ensures that, if the alarm is valid, that security or law enforcement will be dispatched to the property as required... (more/less)
This solves the issue of wondering if your neighbours will simply ignore the alarm, and ensures that, if the alarm is valid, that security or law enforcement will be dispatched to the property as required... (more/less)
Safeguard your home or business
The monitored alarm systems on offer at Harvey Norman Security are the perfect inclusion to your home or business security systems. Your home or business monitored alarm systems can be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days per week at a local Alarm Monitoring Station.
Any time the monitored alarm systems activate, the operators at the Alarm Monitoring Station will be notified, and an appropriate response will be arranged... (more/less)
Any time the monitored alarm systems activate, the operators at the Alarm Monitoring Station will be notified, and an appropriate response will be arranged... (more/less)
Follow through
Those of us who have diligently ignored the sound of sirens and alarms in the dead of the night will never have to worry about such an issue with their own security monitoring as long as they choose monitored alarm systems from Harvey Norman Security. There is no doubt that alarms deter crime, but more often than not, many alarm signals are ignored by bystanders or passersby.
With a Harvey Norman Security monitored alarm system you can be assured that the sound of your alarm will also mean that a security response is on its way.
The holistic service of the monitored alarm systems on offer from Harvey Norman Security ensure that every alarm event is followed through thoroughly by a team of trained professionals at the Alarm Monitoring Station - never again will you have to worry about your alarm siren at the home or office being ignored again... (more/less)
With a Harvey Norman Security monitored alarm system you can be assured that the sound of your alarm will also mean that a security response is on its way.
The holistic service of the monitored alarm systems on offer from Harvey Norman Security ensure that every alarm event is followed through thoroughly by a team of trained professionals at the Alarm Monitoring Station - never again will you have to worry about your alarm siren at the home or office being ignored again... (more/less)