Question: Objectives of an Alarm

Answer: 1. Deter an event from happening

2. Warn occupants when an event happens

3. Minimize threat to life and property

4. Summon appropriate aid

Question: Well-recognized RTLs

Answer: Recognized Testing Laboratory

1. UL (Underwriters Laboratories)

2. 2. FM (Factory Mutual)

3. Question: Fully Redundant

4. Answer: All monitoring equipment has a “hot back-up”

5. Three levels of backup power

6. Question: Requirements of a listed facility

7. Answer: 1. Independent Annual Inspections

8. 2. Fully Redundant

9. 3. Staffing Levels

10. 4. Records Maintenance and 1 year history storage minimum

11. Question: SIAC

12. Answer: Security Industry Alarm Coalition

13. 501(c)(6) not for profit

14. one voice for dispatch issues

15. funded by donations

16. instrumental in bridging the gap between the industry and the police

17. Question: False Dispatch Error

18. Answer: A cooperative effort between FARA and ESA that predicates the “average” # of responses per system per year. # of dispatches/# of monitored systems.

19. Question: ECV

20. Answer: Enhanced Call Verification

21. telephone verification of alarm calls for burglart/intrusion calls

22. Question: CP-01 Control Panel Standard

23. Answer: Industry Standard

24. No add’l cost to customer & commonly available to manufacturers

25. Designed to reduce high incidence of user error

26. 40% effective

27. Required by many municipalities and in some states

28. Question: Induction

29. Answer: influence exerted on a charged body or by magnetic field on neighboring bodies without apparent communication.

30. Question: Forms of energy that produce electricity?

31. Answer: 1. Mechanical Energy

32. 2. Chemical Energy

33. 3. Light Energy

34. 4. Heat Energy