The New Generation of Monitoring: Don't Get Behind The Eight Ball
The invention of the digital communicator in the 1970s changed the entire landscape of monitoring, because alarms could be transmitted over what the telcos called Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS lines. This made it possible for a central station in Florida to monitor an alarm panel in Alaska.
Once again, the monitoring industry is in the process of a transformation because of the widespread prevalence of the Internet and Internet Protocol (IP) technologies. With IP, an entirely new range of solutions is possible and with it, an entirely new host of monitoring services.