Showing posts with label home automation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home automation. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Does your #SecuritySystem look like this? #TBT


Does your security system look like this?
#TBT 





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Friday, August 22, 2014

Is the 2G sunset causing outages? Security Systems News





Is the 2G sunset causing outages? | Security Systems News



AT&T’s 2012 announcement that it would phase out 2G service left most in the alarm industry, well, unfazed. With wireless technology, such changes come with the territory. Moreover, it’s not the alarm industry but the mobile phone industry that dictates network “sunsets.” As Lou Fiore, Chairman of the Alarm Industry Communications Commission, put it in a recent conversation: “As long as you go cellular, there is no endgame here.”




A few months after the initial announcement, AT&T attached a deadline (Jan 1, 2017) to its 2G sunset. Since that time, the AICC has established a regular line of communication with AT&T, which sends a representative to attend the organization’s quarterly meetings.
AT&T informed AICC that, while interim changes would take place in advance of the 2G sunset, the changes would not affect the alarm industry. AICC members, Fiore said, were “skeptical.”



Companies can switch to AT&T's 3G or 4G network by choosing matching hardware from a cellular alarm communicator, or to one of AT&T's competitors (the 3G and 4G networks of Verizon and Sprint are an option. 










Thursday, June 26, 2014

The 2G Sunset Has Begun- ADT Announces Mandatory Alarm System Updates for CellGuard Customers


All Security Systems dealers have been informed of changes being made by national cellular service providers – that will affect your existingSecurity System and 24-hour monitoring service.  


If your security system transmits alarm signals from your home to the monitoring stations via second-generation (2G) cellular service, your system will be unable to send or receive alarm signals before the end of 2016!

All security providers have recently been notified that the national cellular providers have begun ceasing 2G cellular services.
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Upon shut-down of 2G service by the cellular provider,