Should Every Alarm System Have External Sensors

Should Every Alarm System Have External Sensors In SEN’s Opinion – What Are The Benefits?

Should Every Alarm System Have External Sensors – Should every alarm system feature external alarm sensors? We’d say yes, wherever possible.

Obviously, some applications – bald face terraces or street shopfronts for example – don’t lend themselves to perimeter detection but any sites that feature a physically delineated sterile zone – walled courtyards or backyards – will benefit from external detection.

There are caveats. You don’t want legitimate mail, parcel deliveries or meter readers to get homeowners’ hearts racing with shrill alarm activations. That makes placement important. You might allow unfettered access to the front verandah where parcels can be left in safety while securing side access points intruders might sneak through.

Front of house might be secured externally by movement detection rules in doorbells or integrated surveillance cameras, as well as by vibration sensors, reeds, glassbreaks and volumetrics covering the front entrance from the inside.

As regular readers of SEN know, we favour sensors with integrated cameras that allow immediate triage of alarm events. However, experience with high end external curtain sensors installed in sterile walled yards shows that there are applications that will prove very stable to a quality sensor.

There will be no false alarms at all, and any activations will be intrusion events – or unexpected visitors. A combination of quality sensors and a remotely accessible CCTV system with sufficient camera coverage communicating via an utterly dependable network is the gold standard, in our opinion.

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“Should Every Alarm System Have External Sensors In SEN’s Opinion – What Are The Benefits?”