How Does Visual Alarm Verification Work?

Visu­al Alarm Ver­i­fi­ca­tion can sig­nif­i­cant­ly increase the speed of police response to break-ins and oth­er alarm events—up to 85% faster—and also increase the risk of an arrest by as much as 50%.

But how exact­ly does it work? Don’t all alarm sys­tems have some ver­i­fi­ca­tion process already?

Not exact­ly. And in fact, con­ven­tion­al secu­ri­ty sys­tems that use phone ver­i­fi­ca­tion are noto­ri­ous­ly unre­li­able and prone to false alarms. Worse yet, police in some juris­dic­tions will not auto­mat­i­cal­ly respond to alarm events if the inci­dent can­not be ver­i­fied appro­pri­ate­ly: ver­i­fied events always get pri­or­i­tized first, so that police resources aren’t wast­ed on false alarms.

Visu­al Alarm Ver­i­fi­ca­tion pro­vides live video evi­dence of a crime in progress so that police know to respond right away.

Here’s how it works when you use an ALARM‑i video mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem.

1) Alarm is triggered.

When your alarm is trig­gered, your video cam­eras are already rolling. With­in moments, this footage is sent to you and the mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion.

Any event that trips your secu­ri­ty sys­tem will auto­mat­i­cal­ly begin this process. For exam­ple, this could be a break-in, a bro­ken win­dow, motion detec­tion, etc.

2) The system notifies you.

As the sys­tem own­er, you’ll auto­mat­i­cal­ly receive alerts on your mobile phone and com­put­er that an event has occurred.

These aren’t your stan­dard text noti­fi­ca­tions, either. You’ll receive both pre-alarm and real-time video clips of the event – as it unfold­ed and is hap­pen­ing right now.

ALARM‑i also gives you the option to dis­patch police or dis­re­gard the notice. In that sense, you become an addi­tion­al source of ver­i­fi­ca­tion because you can con­firm from the footage that a crime is occur­ring.

3) Our monitoring station is alerted too.

What hap­pens when the sys­tem noti­fies you of an event if you’re not by your phone?

Don’t wor­ry – the ALARM‑i mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion has your back. When your secu­ri­ty sys­tem is trig­gered, our mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion receives the Visu­al Alarm Ver­i­fi­ca­tion evi­dence simul­ta­ne­ous­ly. So even if you miss the noti­fi­ca­tion on your phone, our dis­patch oper­a­tors can view the same clips and real-time video of your loca­tion.

They will ver­i­fy that an event is in progress and trans­mit it to the police. They will also con­tact you to ensure you’re aware of the sit­u­a­tion.

4) Police are dispatched.

At your request, or after our oper­a­tors view the footage, police are noti­fied and dis­patched so that they can respond to the premis­es right away.

Pri­or­i­ty police dis­patch is near­ly twice as fast (85%* on aver­age), giv­ing you peace of mind that author­i­ties will be swift­ly on their way. This speed dra­mat­i­cal­ly increas­es the chances of catch­ing the sus­pect in the act, pre­vent­ing them from get­ting away with any­thing valu­able or caus­ing cost­ly dam­age.

Addi­tion­al­ly, video footage can be used as cru­cial evi­dence for pros­e­cu­tion and insur­ance claims.

Contact us for more information.

For more details on how ALARM‑i Visu­al Alarm Ver­i­fi­ca­tion can pro­tect your busi­ness or fam­i­ly,

call 1–844-416‑7587 or request a no-oblig­a­tion secu­ri­ty sys­tem con­sul­ta­tion.