VoIP, the rise of radio, cellular and video, and the demise of DACT — will they be the impetus for a new Telecommunications Act?
I don’t believe we have ever had a time where there were so many changes regarding how we send signals to our central stations. DACT is changing; cellular generations are evolving at great speed with little or no concern about how these changes affect alarm systems. Added to this we now have a need for greater bandwidth.
DACT, commonly called “dialers,” is actually NFPA 72’s term for Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter. NFPA 72 sets the reliability bar for alarm communications for both fire and burglary.