Whether you are a Monitoring Center, Alarm Dealer or End User, IP Alarms can help you migrate from monitoring security, fire or medical alarms over telephone landlines to reliably monitoring them over the Internet.
This page provides a basic overview of how our solutions work and provides links to various pages and web sites that go into more detail relevant to your particular area of interest.
Whether you want an IP upgrade for your single line receiver or want to use cutting edge software to process hundreds of signals per second - we have a product and a solution for your Monitoring Center. We have client hardware devices that interface with any alarm control panel and transmit signals in any protocol. We have server solutions that interface with any automation system. We have been developing IP Alarm & Video solutions since 2005 and we are at your service.
Linksys Alarm Monitoring Solution
The Linksys IP Alarm Monitoring Solution is the most popular Internet Alarm Monitoring solution on the market due mainly to its low cost, flexibility and ease of use. It is supported by a rapidly growing number of Alarm Monitoring Centers worldwide.
Monitoring Centers
As migration to VoIP and the Verified Response policy gather pace, the ability to receive alarm signals over IP and to access video images of an event are becoming essential components of any monitoring solution. IP Alarms offer the most flexible, cost effective professional IP signalling & video verification solutions on the market to help Monitoring Centers retain existing subscribers and open up new recurring revenue streams.
The Linksys Solution has built-in support for Video Verification. It has the ability to trigger recording of any number of IP Cameras the instant an alarm panel is activated. See our Verified Response web site for more information.
Learn more about our suite of Server Software Components
Alarm Companies
The Linksys IP Alarm Monitoring Solution provides you with the most powerful tool available to upgrade systems that currently use regular POTS landlines for communicating with a Central Station.
The solution allows you to be very flexible in the way you approach potential Customers. Some Alarm Companies replace the Linksys stickers with a custom sticker and brand the device as their own. Others, that until now have only been able to provide monitoring service to subscribers in their local area, take full advantage of the nationwide "off the shelf" availability of the Linksys hardware and attract new Customers across the country to use their services on a "Monitoring Only" basis.
Also see our "Total Connect Killer"
End Users
The Linksys IP Alarm Monitoring Solution can be utilized to communicate with any Central Station - even if they are not IP Ready. There are three basic levels of support and modes of operation:
Level 1
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Full Support. The Monitoring Center has installed our IP Suite of software components and alarm signals are sent from the Linksys device, over the Internet directly to a Virtual Receiver at the Monitoring Center. |
Level 2
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Partial Support. The Monitoring Center has installed the minimal software required to receive alarm signals from Linksys devices. Signals are sent from the Linksys device, over the Internet to the IP Alarms Data Center and then forwarded on to the Monitoring Center over the Internet into the receiving software provided. |
Level 3
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No support. There are many reasons why a Monitoring Center may not support our solution. To overcome this, signals are sent from the Linksys device, over the Internet to the IP Alarms data center and then forwarded on to the Monitoring Center over traditional landlines using a toll free phone number. |
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WRP400 - Internet & Cellular Monitoring of Alarms & Cameras The WRP400 is our most advanced "off the shelf" solution for high security applications. Its built-in failover allows it to seamlessly switch from wired to wireless networks to provide continuous, uninterrupted dual path service for alarm and camera monitoring. Why pay for expensive custom security hardware when the WRP400 has everything you require already built in ? Simply connect a phone cable from the alarm panel into one of the phone jacks on the WRP400 and the custom IP Alarms firmware does all that is required to ensure the reliable transmission of alarm signals to your Monitoring Center. No more additional 3rd party monitoring charges for cellular backup. No loss of IP Camera event images when the DSL or Cable Internet connection goes down. More... |
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The Diginet The Diginet IP Communicator's main strength is that it is "router friendly". Its ability to traverse even the most awkward NAT routers and firewalls without a requirement for port forwarding provides for simple integration of any alarm control panel to an IP ready Monitoring Center. When used with the add-on GPRS board, the result is a robust dual path solution with both paths fully supervised. The Diginet has 16 digital inputs and outputs, plus add-on relays for automation and control of local devices. |
Our competitors may show you crystal clear images of beautiful babies, children and homes superimposed on the latest high tech cell phones, but their solutions amount to nothing more than glorified Nanny Cams. The requirement for subscribers to log into a web interface or send a text message every time they want to arm or disarm cameras may be a novelty for a month or two, but that will soon wear off and complacency and forgetfulness will take over.
IP Alarms have taken a different approach and aimed the Virtual Monitoring Platform and Verified Response software component squarely at professional Dealers and Monitoring Centers who require seamless integration between IP Cameras and existing alarm panels. If your Customer wants to sit on a beach and use their cell phone to play around with their sprinkler system, then sell them a Nanny Cam. If they want to be free to go about their daily life, safe in the knowledge that images from their cameras will be made available to a highly trained operator within a second of an alarm activation from a professionally installed security system, then our real world video solutions may be much more appropriate.
Low cost IP Camera and gateway bundles are fine for Nanny Cam's, but professional Security Dealers understand that a ten second video clip, or a single model of camera cannot possibly cater for every type of video application they will encounter in their daily business.
The Verified Response & Virtual Monitoring Solutions do not tie Dealers to any particular model of IP Camera nor any model of alarm panel, however, they provide additional features for Sony, Axis, Panasonic and Y-Cam branded cameras. The widespread availability and sub $100 cost of Panasonic IP Cameras make them the most popular choice for residential video applications and Axis are more popular for commercial sites.
Equipment Manufacturers
If your manufacturing company has a requirement to signal alarm events via IP to a server, then IP Alarms may well be the technical partner for you. Client side integration is very simple and our server solutions are already in place in many Central Monitoring Stations across the world. 2010 will see a rapid increase in the number of Alarm Monitoring Centers supporting our solutions, so if you manufacture an alarm panel or similar product and want to embed our technology into your product, your Customers will have many monitoring providers to choose from.
IP Alarms have an ongoing investment in the development of a range of IP, GSM and GPRS solutions for the electronic security, fire and medical alarm monitoring industries.
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