System Inactivity signals report to our Central Station as trouble signals (unless alternate instructions have been given) and triggers a notification from our dispatchers directly to the Dealer. What is a System Inactivity Signal? A notification that the alarm system hasn’t been armed or disarmed for a specific amount of time. Depending on how it […]
With upcoming events at Security Canada in Toronto (our first time there- we’re Booth #137 and we’d love to meet you) and ISC East in New York (We’re booth #511–so please stop to say hello), we decided it was a great time for you, our dealers, to put faces to the voices and names you […]
Dealers, we know your business customers count on you for so many things, most importantly protecting their assets and their property. Often, this includes protection against internal theft as well as ensuring that their businesses are opening and closing when they’re supposed to. Openings and Closings are a great way to monitor when their staff […]
Have you noticed how sometimes it seems that the more freedom you have, the more complicated and confusing things can get? It’s a classic case of ‘be careful what you wish for’ more often than not. For those who have been with us for a long time, you all remember when cancelling accounts required a […]
When dealing with alarms, passwords and/or pass codes become a big part of the conversation. The general assumption is that every alarm has a security code, but that’s not always the case. For example, many commercial fire systems are not password protected. The only time something like a password would come into play would be […]
Although our Central Station handles all sorts of emergencies and crises, the calls they least like to handle are the ones where an emergency has occurred (or maybe it was just a potential one), we were unable to help, and it was utterly preventable. What am I talking about, you wonder? It’s calls like these: […]
Lately our Central Station has noticed an influx of accounts that appear to be missing addresses because they’ve been placed in the wrong data entry blocks, and it’s easy to see why. When entering a new account you see something like this: As you can see, on a new account being created, there’s only a […]
While the most popularly monitored alarms are residential and commercial burglar and fire alarms, they’re not all we help manage. Very important, but rarely thought of in reference to alarms, are medical facilities, farms, school cafeterias, restaurants, grocery stores…and the list goes on and on. What kind of non-fire, non-burg alarms do we monitor for […]
We’ve been in the alarm industry for quite some time. As a family owned business, we take pride in the product we offer and work hard to make sure that we’re offering everything we possibly can for our dealers. After all, there aren’t many companies that can say that they’ve never raised their basic monitoring […]
Are you going to be at ISC West? We are! While we can’t wait for the reunion with some of you, we’re also thrilled at the opportunity to put faces to names we interact with every day. As we’ve posted on our various social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter handle: @AllAmerCS, LinkedIn, and Instagram handle: allamericanmonitoring), […]