What is Alarm Monitoring and Why is It So Important?

How often do you wor­ry about the safe­ty of your fam­i­ly, home or busi­ness? If you have a secu­ri­ty sys­tem – or are plan­ning to install one – you can nev­er tru­ly have peace of mind unless the sys­tem is equipped with alarm mon­i­tor­ing.

Alarm mon­i­tor­ing assures secu­ri­ty pro­fes­sion­als watch out for you and your safe­ty 24 hours dai­ly.

What is alarm monitoring?

With a mon­i­tored sys­tem, an out­side secu­ri­ty station—sometimes called a mon­i­tor­ing cen­tre or cen­tral station—is alert­ed as soon as your alarm goes off. Secu­ri­ty spe­cial­ists assess the alarm sig­nal and quick­ly con­tact the appro­pri­ate author­i­ties to respond to your emer­gency, whether it’s a break-in, fire or some­thing else.

No mat­ter what you’re doing or where you are, your home or busi­ness is opti­mal­ly pro­tect­ed for any poten­tial sce­nario.

Why a monitored security system is so crucial

Alarm mon­i­tor­ing pro­vides vital ben­e­fits for your secu­ri­ty, safe­ty and peace of mind:

1. Vaca­tions that feel like vaca­tions. If you have an unmon­i­tored sys­tem and an emer­gency with­in your home or busi­ness while you’re away, you may not find out until it’s too late. With a mon­i­tored sys­tem, you’ll have a pro­fes­sion­al team poised to respond day or night, so you can rest easy know­ing there’s a watch­ful eye over your prop­er­ty while you’re away.
2. Help is on the way, no mat­ter what. Sup­pose you’re at home dur­ing a fire or break-in but are unre­spon­sive or unable to call for help. In that case, a mon­i­tored sys­tem ensures author­i­ties will be noti­fied imme­di­ate­ly and dis­patched to your loca­tion. When you’re not able to act, the mon­i­tored sys­tem is. It’s the ulti­mate safe­guard.
3. False alarm detec­tion. A mon­i­tored sys­tem helps ver­i­fy if it’s a true emer­gency or a false alarm. Equipped with video mon­i­tor­ing, a secu­ri­ty pro­fes­sion­al can see exact­ly what caused the alarm, trig­ger­ing pri­or­i­ty police dis­patch and achiev­ing a faster response rate. In Toron­to, video-ver­i­fied emer­gen­cies receive Pri­or­i­ty Pol­i­cy Response, which is up to 85% quick­er and results in an arrest rate of more than 50%.
4. The right help always. The trained secu­ri­ty pro­fes­sion­als at the mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion are equipped to know exact­ly what ser­vice you need so that the prop­er author­i­ties will be alert­ed for spe­cif­ic emer­gen­cies, such as fires, bur­glar­ies, floods and more. Every emer­gency will get a par­tic­u­lar, tar­get­ed response each time.

Why is alarm monitoring from PROTECTION PLUS?

Since 1994, PROTECTION PLUS has sat­is­fied cus­tomers with our staff of trained, cer­ti­fied alarm instal­la­tion tech­ni­cians, lock­smiths and cus­tomer ser­vice spe­cial­ists across the GTA and south­ern Ontario. We know pre­cise­ly how cru­cial safe­ty and secu­ri­ty are for your fam­i­ly and assets, and we aim to pro­vide cus­tomized secu­ri­ty ser­vices that sur­pass any oth­er. Here are just a few of the ways we’ve gained our out­stand­ing rep­u­ta­tion:

• Supe­ri­or instal­la­tion of mon­i­tored secu­ri­ty sys­tems that match unique res­i­dence and busi­ness needs
• Use of secu­ri­ty prod­ucts from the most trust­ed providers, such as Hon­ey­well
• Dis­count­ed insur­ance costs of up to 20% with Pro­tec­tion Plus Cer­tifi­cate of Mon­i­tor­ing
• On-site secu­ri­ty audits
• Mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion spe­cial­ists, pro­fes­sion­al­ly trained and cer­ti­fied by Under­writ­ers Lab­o­ra­to­ries of Cana­da (ULC), always main­tain con­sis­ten­cy and qual­i­ty of response.
• Home­S­tars Best of 2020 win­ner
• Count­less glow­ing cus­tomer reviews across the web

Want to learn more about the expert secu­ri­ty PROTECTION PLUS can pro­vide for your home or busi­ness with­in your bud­get and cater to your needs? Call us at 1–855-365‑7587 to speak to a Secu­ri­ty Con­sul­tant now!