Why an Alarm Messaging Service is a Good Idea

02/23/2011

We live in the age of information. We love using information and tech to make our lives more convenient. Reliance Protectron provides its customers with a service to enable them to stay connected to their home security system. This service is called TeleGARD, and it is extremely useful to both homeowners and businesses for many reasons.

Homeowners

  • see if your home alarm has been armed, and when
  • keep track of when cleaning staff arrive and leave
  • receive a notification when the kids get home from school

Businesses

  • keep track of when your business opens and closes
  • monitor activity anytime your business is not open 
  • monitor change in temperature in fridges or other devices to avoid inventory loss
  • system activity reports that can be looked at whenever you like
  • monitor equipment failure

How it Works

TeleGARD is an enhanced service over and above Reliance Protectron's standard alarm monitoring services. This service provides you with automated notifications to your cell and/or email when your family or employees interact with your home security system using their custom codes. Your system is able to identify who the person is by their alarm code.

Opt-out choices

If your older teenager doesn't like to have their every move tracked, you can opt certain users out of the home monitoring system. Likewise with your business partner and key employees if you are a business owner.

Is it too much?

It really isn't a bad idea to keep an eye on who is coming and going from your home or business, and for how long they are there. If you've hired your cleaners for one hour and they are there for two, what are they doing? If you hired them for an hour and they leave after thirty minutes, you have documentation to support a refund request.

The same goes for contractors of any kind that are working on your home and business; the TeleGARD service helps you to make sure hours worked equal hours billed.

Protect your business inventory and equipment

Temperature changes around equipment can mean loss of food inventory, and the malfunction of production equipment can lead to costly repair bills if not discovered quickly enough. TeleGARD can alert you of either of these situations, which could save you a lot of money by letting you get the jump on repairs early before extensive damage is done.

Get in touch with your local Home Security Dealer today and ask about installation of a Reliance Protectron system - the only one with TeleGARD.

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