Remote recovery arrangement for alarm system
AssigneeDigital Security Controls Ltd.
InventorJames Parker
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Abstract
A security alarm system cooperates with a remote monitoring station to improve the reliability of the alarm system. The alarm system includes a control panel which during communications with the remote monitoring station, receives information used for the operation of the system and preferably provides information for storage by the remote monitoring station which information is recovered by the control panel if necessary.
Claims12
A security system having a control panel for controlling and communicating with a plurality of sensors and evaluating signals therefrom to determine whether an alarm condition has occurred, said control panel including a telephone out-dial arrangement for reporting alarm events to a remote monitoring station, said control panel including volatile and non-volatile memory and a date and time arrangement;
- said control panel upon determining an alarm event has occurred associating the alarm event with a date and time provided by said date and time arrangement and reporting said information to the remote monitoring station;
- said control panel including a battery backup for powering and maintaining said date and time arrangement in the event of a power disruption, said control panel further including processing logic which in the event of a loss of the date and time information said processing logic uses said telephone out-dial arrangement to complete a communication with said remote monitoring station and receive therefrom date and time information.
A security system having a control panel for controlling and communicating with a plurality of sensors and evaluating signals therefrom to determine whether an alarm condition has occurred, said control panel including a telephone out-dial arrangement for reporting alarm events to a remote monitoring station, said control panel including volatile and non-volatile memory and a date and time arrangement which maintains a current date and time and other site programmed information in said volatile memory, said control panel during communications with said remote monitoring station transferring thereto for future retrieval said other site programmed information, said control panel upon determining an alarm event has occurred associating the alarm event with a date and time provided by said date and time arrangement and reporting said information to the remote monitoring station, said control panel including a battery backup for maintaining said volatile memory in the event of a power disruption, said control panel further including processing logic for identifying changes in said site programmed information and communicating said changes to said remote monitoring station which updates the site programmed information stored by said remote monitoring station specific to the control panel.
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