FIELD GUIDE TO MONITORING: Monitoring Facts & Fiction
Communication infrastructures in America’s homes and businesses are quite different than they were 10 years ago. The proliferation of local and wide area data networks, cellular networks, and the Internet all are impacting the way people communicate. Alarm signal transmission has been affected by this technology alteration. In fact, just as alarm signal transmission via the digital communicator permanently changed the monitoring landscape in the 1970s, so are newer technologies about to dramatically change monitoring during this decade.
“One thing that is for sure – with rapid changes in technology, dealers have had to reeducate themselves,†says Sascha Kylau, product manager for central station receivers and IP communications for DSC Ltd., Concord, Ontario. “They are suddenly faced with new [technologies] and need to get trained.â€