Innovating since 2002

There are still millions of alarm panels connected to copper phone lines and almost all of them work perfectly well. We believe that it is uneconomical and completely unnecessary to replace reliably working security and fire alarm panels. It makes no business sense at all to do so. The goal of IP Alarms has always been to provide solutions to help alarm panels remain in place and continue to work well into the future.

We have been developing software for transmitting and receiving alarm signals over IP based networks since 2002. We have experienced a lot of technical challenges in that time and have been able to adapt our solutions accordingly. Constantly evolving telephone line technology, low spec Internet connections, overly keen firewall rules, routers with badly designed SIP ALG's and countless other hurdles have been overcome in order to prove that our platform is up to the task at hand. It is increasingly common where it is no longer possible to use copper phone lines for transmitting alarm signals. Fortunately, our we offer proven technology to migrate older alarm panels to modern networks. Reliably working alarm systems can utilise low cost VoIP equipment called analog terminal adapters to transmit signals over the Internet instead of phone lines.

To have an alarm panel send data over the Internet instead of a traditional POTS line, it's a simple case of disconnecting the alarm panel from the phone line and connecting it to any analog terminal adapter (VoIP ATA). Alarm signals will then leave your home or business over the Internet instead of a copper phone line. It often costs less than US$50 to purchase a single line VoIP Adapter and sometimes as little as $20. Compare the cost of installing a simple VoIP adapter to the cost of replacing an alarm panel. The savings continue each and every month by eliminating the cost of telephone line rental. Analog Terminal Adapters have been around for more than three decades. They can intelligently detect network failures and switch to backup servers almost immediately. IP Alarms allow users of our platform to take full advantage of this important redundancy feature by switching between our servers in New York and Las Vegas.