Just noticed this Internet connected alarm posted over on DIYnot. Looks better than Piper and Canary, but still sorely lacking in serious features.

 

https://www.ismartalarm.com

 

It's got FCC docs online, so I did a quick virtual teardown of it:

http://cybergibbons.com/alarms-2/ismartalarm-quick-teardown/

This is the way all home security is heading imo.

Agreed

It seems to meet a need. People want to take paid-for traditional monitoring out of the equation.

 

I don't understand why that has to mean the alarm is missing a load of functionality though. It's no better than a Friedland Response in these terms.

 

 It's no better than a Friedland Response in these terms.

 

It's a lot about branding, it looks nice, it costs nothing so it's a no brainer for those who can't/won't look to deep.

Edited June 7, 201411 yr by RFS

This is the way all home security is heading imo.

 

Amazed that a lot of these don't yet offer 'a £5 a month Concierge service where we'll respond to your alarm if you don't answer'...

 

Matt??

Amazed that a lot of these don't yet offer 'a £5 a month Concierge service where we'll respond to your alarm if you don't answer'...

Matt??

We are actively working with a vendor that supports this idea for videofied. Self mon, no answer in 60 seconds comes to us.

We are actively working with a vendor that supports this idea for videofied. Self mon, no answer in 60 seconds comes to us.

And you won't be the only one

I've toyed with the idea of this as a queue option for my SelfMon service, but not sure customers would pay additional monthly fees for it.  If it were an on demand pay X amount per request, then that may work.   Something like a web service at the manned arc that accepts a dump of last X events, customer contact list and other info.

And you won't be the only one

I'm sure not we are looking at backing it up with a guard response to site as there is little point a human in an arc trying to call the same numbers that the self monitoring failed as its clear the people can't take the call. Like this afternoon I've been to the cinema so robo dial or human, I couldn't deal with an alarm hence the idea of a guard.