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US 2006/0067484 A1Published application
Private VoIP network for security system monitoring
AssigneeNext Alarm, Inc.
InventorsHarvey Elliot, Daniel Elliot
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InventorsHarvey Elliot, Daniel Elliot
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Security systems typically communicate with alarm monitoring centers using a telephone connection. Security systems will check in with the alarm monitoring center with a diagnostic signal at a predetermined interval—typically once per day. When a security system is connected to a Voice-over-IP service (using Broadband Internet), rather than a standard telephone line, the opportunity exists to poll in real-time the status of the connection, and alert the owner (or alert the alarm monitoring center) that the customer's connection has been broken. The present invention offers a system and technique for monitoring a security system connected using a Voice-over-IP connection, in real time, and alerting the owner of the security system, or the alarm-monitoring center, when the connection is broken. This alert can be used, for example, to issue a telephone call to the police, informing them of the breach of line integrity and possible compromise of the premise.
A method for monitoring an alarm system, comprising the steps of:
An alarm monitoring system comprising:
A method of redirecting a communication path from an alarm system to communicate with an alarm company, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.