Test Your Commercial Security Alarm Know-How

Alarms Are Too Commercial, Charlie Brown

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Can you identify what's wrong with this picture?

Improperly installed commercial burglar alarm system - 5 Minute Tech Quiz - SDM Magazine

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This photo is a result of an improperly installed commercial burglar alarm system. There are many faults with the installation, obvious and not so obvious in the photo. You will notice that the enclosure is a residential enclosure, and not the stronger, thicker and more secured commercial enclosure. The installer also failed to protect the control panel with either tamper switches, motion detection or other devices. It was easy to simply pull this off the wall and defeat the system. Refer back to question 14.

Roy Pollack, CPP, SET, holds Level IV certification in the field of fire alarms from NICET is currently the director of Compliance for Devcon Security Services Corp., Hollywood, Fla., and may be reached at sdmtechtips@bnpmedia.com.

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