Alarm Software since 2002

There are still millions of alarm panels connected to copper phone lines and almost all of them work reliably. We believe that it is uneconomical and completely unnecessary to replace reliably working security and fire alarm panels. It makes no business sense at all to do so.

The goal of IP Alarms has always been to provide solutions to help analog alarm panels remain in place and continue to work well into the future. We have been developing software for transmitting and receiving alarm signals over IP based networks since 2002. We have experienced a lot of technical challenges in that time and have been able to adapt our solutions accordingly. Constantly evolving telephone line technology, low spec Internet connections, overly keen firewall rules, routers with badly designed SIP ALG's and countless other hurdles have been overcome in order to prove that our software is up to the task at hand.

Virtual Receiver Software

It is increasingly common where it is no longer possible for your clients to use copper phone lines for transmitting alarm signals. Fortunately, our Virtual Receivers offer proven technology to migrate older alarm panels to modern networks. Reliably working alarm systems can utilise low cost VoIP equipment called analog terminal adapters to transmit signals over the Internet instead of phone lines.

To have an alarm panel transmit signals over the Internet instead of a traditional phone line, simply disconnect the alarm panel from the phone line and connect it to any standard analog terminal adapter (VoIP ATA). Once the IP address of your alarm monitoring facility is entered into the adapter settings, alarm signals will leave the premises over the Internet instead of a copper phone line.

It costs less than US$50 to purchase a single line VoIP Adapter and sometimes as little as $20. Compare the cost of installing a simple VoIP adapter to the cost of replacing an alarm panel. Multiply those costs by the number of fire and security alarm panels in your organization and you start to get an indication of the scale of savings that can be made by companies with multiple sites. Imagine the initial savings your clients can make by avoiding swapping out alarm panels and the savings they can make each and every month on the cost of telephone line rental. It's a big win for both you and your clients!

Analog Terminal Adapters have been around for more than three decades. They can intelligently detect network failures and switch to backup servers almost immediately. IP Alarms allow users of our Virtual Receiver software to take full advantage of this important redundancy feature and we can run Failover Virtual Receivers for you on our servers in New York and/or Las Vegas.

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