Someone Has Broken In. Here’s How Alarm‑i Responds…

Break-ins and thefts: they’re the whole rea­son you pur­chase an alarm sys­tem for your busi­ness in the first place. No busi­ness own­er wants this to hap­pen, of course, but you want to be pre­pared to deal with it in the event that a break-in does occur.

Since not all secu­ri­ty sys­tems work the same, you want to be sure you get the pro­tec­tion (and response) your busi­ness deserves.

In this post, we look at how ALARM‑i works in the event of a break-in at your busi­ness.

Your Alarm is Triggered

An ALARM‑i busi­ness secu­ri­ty sys­tem can detect break-ins in a num­ber of ways:

• Motion detec­tors
• Door & win­dow con­tacts
• Motion-sen­si­tive cam­eras

In this exam­ple, let’s imag­ine the intrud­er has bro­ken through a rear receiv­ing door in the mid­dle of the night. The door con­tact would detect this break-in and trig­ger the alarm.

Cameras are Rolling

A key advan­tage of ALARM‑i is that cam­eras are already cap­tur­ing video pri­or to the alarm event tak­ing place. This will enable you and the mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion to get a full view of the break-in (as we explain fur­ther below). As soon as your secu­ri­ty sys­tem is trig­gered, video clips from the event are sent off­site to the cloud, so they can be accessed from any­where.

You’re Notified Automatically

With­in moments after your alarm is trig­gered, you will receive a text or email let­ting you know that there has been a secu­ri­ty event at your busi­ness. You’ll be able to instant­ly view video from the event, includ­ing pre-alarm clips and real-time video of your busi­ness. These clips are avail­able on both your mobile phone and your com­put­er. From there, you can deter­mine whether or not you need the mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion to dis­patch the author­i­ties to your busi­ness. If you deter­mine that it’s nec­es­sary, our dis­patch­ers will respond imme­di­ate­ly.

The ALARM‑i Monitoring Station Has Your Back

In addi­tion to noti­fy­ing you, ALARM‑i will simul­ta­ne­ous­ly alert our mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion. An oper­a­tor will be able to view the same video clips of the alarm event that took place at your busi­ness. They will be able to view all of the rel­e­vant clips from any of the cam­eras you may have on site, and they will act upon the infor­ma­tion they receive. After con­firm­ing that the alarm event was due to a break-in, your busi­ness is con­tact­ed, and they will also request a Pri­or­i­ty Police Dis­patch.

Privacy Protection

As a reminder, your business’s alarm sys­tem comes with a Pri­va­cy Guar­an­tee, which states that our mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion will only receive the video clips when an alarm is acti­vat­ed. In fact, they have no way of view­ing your business’s video feed until they are noti­fied of an alarm-trig­ger­ing event.

Why It Matters for You

There are a few impor­tant advan­tages to the ALARM‑i video alarm ver­i­fi­ca­tion process:

• Quick­er Response from Author­i­ties: Togeth­er, video ver­i­fi­ca­tion and Pri­or­i­ty Police Dis­patch ensure that author­i­ties are respond­ing fast and effec­tive­ly. On aver­age, Pri­or­i­ty Police Dis­patch is 85% faster and results in a 50% arrest rate, accord­ing to Part­ner­ship for Pri­or­i­ty Ver­i­fied Alarm Response.
• Legit­i­mate Cause for Con­cern: Noth­ing feels worse than pan­ick­ing over a false alarm, or pay­ing false alarm fines on top of the pan­ic that’s been unnec­es­sar­i­ly pro­voked. ALARM‑i reduces the risk of false alarms by allow­ing you and the mon­i­tor­ing cen­ter to ver­i­fy the event visu­al­ly.
• Theft Reduc­tion: As you might sus­pect, there’s a small win­dow between a break-in and a suc­cess­ful theft. Hav­ing a respon­sive alarm sys­tem clos­es this gap and reduces the chance of a crim­i­nal get­ting away with your business’s prop­er­ty.
• Insur­ance: Instead of chas­ing end­less amounts of paper­work or debat­ing with your insur­ance provider about what occurred at your busi­ness, the video clips you receive pro­vide indis­putable proof of the break-in and any dam­age it might’ve caused.
• Legal Sup­port: Often, our alarm system’s video clips can help iden­ti­fy per­pe­tra­tors, aid in the appre­hen­sion of those indi­vid­u­als and can even be used as evi­dence when pros­e­cut­ing them.
• Recov­ery of Stolen Items: When per­pe­tra­tors are iden­ti­fied quick­ly, there’s a greater chance that your busi­ness can recov­er what­ev­er goods or oth­er valu­ables might’ve been tak­en dur­ing the break-in.

Learn more — contact us today

For more details on how ALARM‑i Video Alarm Ver­i­fi­ca­tion can pro­tect your busi­ness, con­tact us to request a no-oblig­a­tion secu­ri­ty sys­tem con­sul­ta­tion.