Monitoring
24 Hour Monitoring: The "Monitoring Station" is located locally in
Sarasota, Florida. It is staffed 24 hours daily by trained professionals,
who will dispatch the appropriate help immediately. It is a 24 hour "UL
Listed & Certified Monitoring Station". To you that means we are watched
and regulated by Underwriter Laboratories and Factory Mutual along with
other agencies. Our monitoring rates range from $19.95 to $49.95 per
month depending on cost of system, downpayment or any finacing of
systems.
What does UL Certified Central Station Mean? It means we have to
meet many standards as determined by many agencies such as
Underwriter Laboratories and Factory Mutual. The following will give you
an idea of the requirements a UL Certified Central Station must comply
with and why you should only want to be monitored by a UL Certified
Monitoring Station.
1....The building housing the central station must meet rigid fire ratings as to building material, fire extinguishing ability and emergency features.
2....The building must be secure against intrusion and include UL rated doors, locks, building material and security system.
3....Emergency response personnel must be available and "on site" 24 hours, every day.
4....Records tracking standards on equipment maintenance and staffing must be kept.
5....Back-up communication methods to public service authorities must be in place.
6....Alarm receiving equipment must have a redundancy (back-up) in case of equipment failure with 30 second switch over to insure no "downtime".
7....A generator must be in place that automatically takes over powering of all central station equipment in case of A/C power failure.
8....Central Station must have uninterruptible power supply that insures constant
filtered power to equipment and in effect is a fail safe of at least 4 hours
back up to generator.
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