Optimized supervision rate for wireless intrusion detectors

A method for operating a security system controller, the method comprising:

• receiving security sensor alarms from each of a plurality of security sensors in a region of a facility, wherein each security sensor alarm is received when an alarm condition is detected by a corresponding one of the plurality of security sensors;
• confirming one or more of the received security sensor alarms when the corresponding security sensor again detects the alarm condition in the region of the facility within a predetermined period of time, resulting in one or more confirmed alarm conditions;
• the security system controller issuing an alarm for each of the one or more confirmed alarm conditions;
• repeatedly receiving supervisory signals from each of the plurality of security sensors;
• and
• scheduling for transmission a supervisory signal from each of the plurality of security sensors during each of a plurality of sequential time intervals, wherein for each sequential time interval, the transmission of the supervisory signals from each of the plurality of security sensors are spaced from one another in time along the corresponding sequential time interval.

A method for operating a security system controller, the method comprising:

• receiving security sensor alarms from each of a plurality of security sensors in a region of a facility, wherein each security sensor alarm is received when an alarm condition is detected by the corresponding one of the plurality of security sensors;
• confirming one or more of the received security sensor alarms when the corresponding security sensor again detects the alarm condition in the region of the facility within a predetermined period of time, resulting in one or more confirmed alarm conditions;
• the security system controller issuing an alarm for each of the one or more confirmed alarm conditions;
• repeatedly receiving supervisory signals from each of the plurality of security sensors;
• and
• wherein the security system controller has an armed state and a disarmed state, and when the security system controller is in the armed state, the security system controller increases a supervisory rate at which the supervisory signals are to be received from at least some of the plurality of security sensors relative to when the security system controller is in the disarmed state.