How to Protect Your Home With Residential Video Alarm Verification

Whether you live in a sin­gle-fam­i­ly res­i­dence or an apart­ment, your num­ber one pri­or­i­ty for your home is to pro­tect it. That includes pro­tect­ing your belong­ings, the res­i­dence itself and, most impor­tant­ly, the peo­ple in it.

The best way to get that pro­tec­tion is to install an alarm sys­tem – but what kind? There is a huge range of prod­ucts avail­able, but a sys­tem that includes res­i­den­tial video alarm ver­i­fi­ca­tion, like the ALARM‑i sys­tem, sets itself apart as the safest and most effec­tive.

What is a verified alarm?

A ver­i­fied alarm is one that pro­vides some kind of evi­dence to law enforce­ment that a crime is actu­al­ly tak­ing place. This could be via audio, video, a com­bi­na­tion of the two, mul­ti­ple zone acti­va­tions or secu­ri­ty per­son­nel wit­ness­ing the event.

Why would you need such ver­i­fi­ca­tion? Because false alarms hap­pen all the time, and police resources are stretched too thin for them to respond to every sin­gle alarm.

In fact, many South­ern Ontario juris­dic­tions pri­or­i­tize alarm video ver­i­fi­ca­tion for police pri­or­i­ty respond. That means that a tra­di­tion­al, non-ver­i­fied alarm could be trig­gered, but help might not come until it’s too late.

What are the benefits of residential video alarm verification?

Ver­i­fied alarms mean pri­or­i­ty response from law enforce­ment. Accord­ing to PPVAR.org, ver­i­fied alarms are vast­ly more effec­tive than tra­di­tion­al alarm sys­tems. Here are the eye-open­ing num­bers:

• 85% quick­er police response
• Over 50% arrest rate (vs. less than 1% for tra­di­tion­al alarm sys­tems)

Not only will your home be safer with a res­i­den­tial video alarm ver­i­fi­ca­tion sys­tem, but it may help you or law enforce­ment:

• Recov­er stolen valu­ables
• Pre­vent prop­er­ty dam­age
• Iden­ti­fy and appre­hend per­pe­tra­tors
• Pro­vide evi­dence for insur­ance claims
• Pro­vide evi­dence for court pro­ceed­ings

But above all this, your fam­i­ly will get the help it needs in the event of a dan­ger­ous intrud­er or oth­er inci­dent, even if you are unable to respond to the alarm your­self. That kind of peace of mind is invalu­able.

How does ALARM‑i work?

With our res­i­den­tial video alarm ver­i­fi­ca­tion sys­tem, the cam­eras are ready to record. You have 24/7 real-time, remote access to the footage, which is also com­plete­ly pri­vate and acces­si­ble only by you. In an alarm event, only video clips are ever sent to the mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion in order for the footage to be reviewed.

If the alarm is trig­gered:

Because ver­i­fied alarms prompt a rapid response, you can rest assured that your home is pro­tect­ed to the full extent. In addi­tion, the ALARM‑i video sys­tem stores 7 days’ worth of video evi­dence and allows cus­tomers to remote­ly arm or dis­arm the sys­tem from their phone.

Find out more about ALARM‑i

Inter­est­ed in pro­tect­ing your home with an ALARM‑i res­i­den­tial video alarm ver­i­fi­ca­tion sys­tem? For more infor­ma­tion, call 1–844-416‑7587 or con­tact us online.