In situations where organisations or Site Managers are apprehensive about managing their own alarms and don’t want to take on this responsibility outside of work hours, Third-Party Monitoring can be configured for the site.
Alarm messages are sent from the Controller at the site to the nominated monitoring station in a standard format in accordance with a set of rules. Monitoring stations will have software that interprets messages received and sends notifications to nominated personnel at the site or displays details on a workstation at the station in a form that is easy for an operator to action.
Actions taken by the monitoring station will depend on the response plan defined by the customer.
Possible actions are:
do nothing
monitoring station software sends an automated notification to nominated people at the site
telephone nominated personnel at the site one by one in an escalation sequence
call a guard out
contact police.
The required response by the monitoring station may depend on:
the day of the week and/or time of day
what happened
the value of property at the site
the level of trust the business owner has in the people who have access to the site
how much the business owner is prepared to pay monitoring for the service
whether the system is police graded and/or the alarm has been verified. The rules and requirements for calling the police vary by country and jurisdiction. If required, verification could be by someone at the premises, video verification, or following dual activation.
If Third-Party Monitoring is enabled, the Site Manager will receive
Panic button activation notifications
Controller offline
Controller configuration changed
Test Mode disabled
and will not receive any other alarm incident notifications.