For nearly two years, a dedicated committee of alarm industry and public safety professionals have been diligently developing a collaborative ANSI standard that will transform the way central stations evaluate site alarm activations through the application of a scoring matrix.
The scoring criteria provides the method to analyze alarm information received and categorizing them into five priority levels depending upon identified severity. Based upon the determined priority level, the alarm information may or may not be transmitted to the designated site ECC/PSAP for a request for law enforcement dispatch.