“Why should I invest in intruder alarms when it is meant for the rich and government agencies?” A widespread belief that has spread across many Kenyans, which is a wrong impression on intruder alarms. There is and always has been a big threat of burglary for those who own business premises and even homes. The vast majority of these crimes involves “perfectly normal” homes and small businesses. This is because the value of stock and equipment found in the average workplace makes them a prime target for thieves.
To avoid all the inconveniences, the answer is an intruder alarm system from Informed Systems LTD. It’s a vital element that should be a priority for you and your business. Here’s why:
- The visible presence of commercial alarm systems deters trespassers. Therefore, you can stop theft before it happens by making it obvious your building is protected.
- If a criminal does break into your premises, motion sensors will detect intruders. An alarm will sound and those in the vicinity will be alerted.
- The more sophisticated business alarm systems can send a signal to a nominated person or initiate a police response. The thief’s window of opportunity is narrowed.
For both businesses and homeowners, the fact that you have an intruder alarm installed and routinely serviced could mean insurers offer lower premiums. Quite simply, they know that a property protected by an alarm system is more likely to be secure, and that makes it less of a risk to insure. A burglar alarm system that’s monitored by an approved alarm receiving center may be an insurance requirement for some businesses and even some homes too. A basic intruder alarm system consists of a control panel, with rechargeable battery power backup and internal or external keypads, several interior and perimeter intrusion detectors, and one external sounder, at least.
An intruder alarm system can be classified as a hardwired, wireless, or a hybrid system. Wireless systems are used when there is not pre-wiring, operating at 433/868 MHz Most secure intruder alarm systems are hardwired systems, because wireless systems will use additional battery power and, even with Anti-jamming protection, still can be affected by radio-frequency interferences. Hybrid alarm systems allow simultaneously the installation of wireless and hardwired detectors, being the most versatile.
Would you like to find out more about installing an intruder alarm system to help protect your home or business? Get in touch today with Informed Systems LTD to find out more about how we can help you protect your premises. We offer a whole range of fire and security solutions for businesses and homes so please contact us to find out more.
INTEGRATION
Using the IP protocol for the net support and Html as the language for the web-servers, it is created the possibility to support several hardware technologies on the same physical net implementation, and also, no less important, created the capability to use and connect to the network systems from different suppliers and technologies, which will give an huge flexibility, not only with the net topology but also at the built grids (individual alarm systems), improving the adaptation capabilities.
System Redundancy
Being necessary to certain applications and environments to have a redundancy systems strategy, the topology of the distributed network (“grid”) can implement this functionality with efficiency, because with all intruder alarm systems connected we can simply choose those for the same security and surveillance area. The systems given for the same area can have then a privileged communication.
We might considerer use redundancy in different ways, as for example:
- One of the systems is active for security violations and the other is active, in backup function, in case of failure of the first, turning all system more robust.
- The two systems are active and ready. In case of a security violation detected, a mutual approach giving the response of each system is made
Connectivity
IP protocol can be supported by different hardware technologies. These add an important advantage because it will allow several levels of redundancy between the intruder alarm systems that made the “grid”.
In the lowest redundancy level each system can have two different types of connections. So, there are always two different ways for the system to communicate through the net. Redundancy gives in practice, to the system:
- In case of a connection failure due to a technical problem, the system stays connected to the net through another connection(s) according with the redundancy level used, and then it can monitor the failure.
Intruder alarm distributed decentralized networks are indeed a new paradigm for the supervision and control of the security systems.
Each system (working as an individual node) has its own control but also has the ability to monitor the state of the other alarm systems on the complete network. This way one can implement a global security alarm strategy, allowing the network to detect a certain failure, either by a technical failure or a security violation of one of the individual intruder alarm systems. On the other hand, it will be also possible, if necessary, to develop a high-level network control, which can be done by any of the intruder alarm systems (nodes) of the network.
All these capabilities make alarm systems more robust, not only in terms of security but also in terms of supervision flexibility.
