Questions to Consider When Choosing a Video Alarm System

A video alarm sys­tem helps you keep a watch­ful eye over your busi­ness or home, and the mere pres­ence of cam­eras can also help to deter bur­glars.

But since not all sur­veil­lance sys­tems offer the same lev­el of secu­ri­ty, you need to be care­ful which solu­tion you choose. There is no short­age of secu­ri­ty-cam­era prod­ucts on the mar­ket – but not all will pro­vide the pro­tec­tion that you need.

If you’re com­par­ing options for a video alarm sys­tem, here are some ques­tions to con­sid­er.

1) Is the video alarm system monitored?

In oth­er words, is there an alarm mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion that can review the video from your sys­tem if you’re unable to? With­out mon­i­tor­ing, there’s not much you’ll be able to do to stop a crime or alert author­i­ties if you’re not home.

For exam­ple, with the Alarm‑i Visu­al Alarm Ver­i­fi­ca­tion Sys­tem, our mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion prompt­ly receives the video footage from your sys­tem when your alarm is tripped. If a crime is occur­ring, they con­tact author­i­ties. Addi­tion­al­ly, with Visu­al Alarm Ver­i­fi­ca­tion, police can be dis­patched with pri­or­i­ty response – up to 85% faster than non-ver­i­fied response.

2) How much does it capture?

Will the cam­eras record con­tin­u­ous­ly? Or are they acti­vat­ed by oth­er cri­te­ria, such as motion or your alarm sys­tem being trig­gered? How much footage will you have access to? Will the video only include the moments that occurred after the cam­eras turned on? Or will you be able to see what took place before a crime occurred?

With Alarm‑i, your sys­tem cap­tures pre-alarm and real-time video footage. This gives you a clear­er pic­ture of exact­ly what hap­pened before and dur­ing the moments that your alarm went off.

3) Do you get alerted when the cameras capture something?

How do you actu­al­ly find out if your video alarm sys­tem has caught some­thing awry at your home or busi­ness? Do you have to man­u­al­ly check the footage after you find your prop­er­ty ran­sacked? Or are you alert­ed as the event is occur­ring?

Alarm‑i noti­fies you in real-time. Both the pre-alarm and real-time clips are sent to your mobile device and com­put­er (in addi­tion to the footage being sent to the mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion). So you’re nev­er in the dark about dis­tur­bances hap­pen­ing at your prop­er­ty, even if you’re thou­sands of miles away.

4) Where can the cameras be placed?

Don’t assume the cam­eras can be installed any­where – espe­cial­ly if you’re look­ing at cheap­er options from your local depart­ment store.

Con­firm whether the sys­tem can be installed indoors, out­doors or both. If they can go out­doors, are they weath­er-resis­tant?

Addi­tion­al­ly, con­sid­er how the cam­eras need to be installed. Are they hard­wired? Do they run on bat­ter­ies that require replace­ment every few weeks? How many cam­eras can be con­nect­ed to the sys­tem?

With Alarm‑i, you can choose from sev­er­al pack­ages to fit your needs – up to 4 indoor/outdoor cam­eras with addi­tion­al door con­tacts, motion sen­sors and alarm mon­i­tor­ing.

Take a closer look at ALARM‑i

Learn more about pro­tect­ing your home or busi­ness with an ALARM‑i Visu­al Alarm Ver­i­fi­ca­tion sys­tem. For more infor­ma­tion, call 1–844-416‑7587 or con­tact us online.