WHAT are the qualities of the greatest modern alarm panels? There's plenty to consider and the answer is not cut and dried. For a start, you want a system that's flexible enough to meet the needs of a wide range of users -homeowners as well as SMEs. That word 'flexible' is a big one. The system needs to offer alarm, automation and video verification capability - perhaps even live video monitoring. The ability to support door control is a big deal, too, especially if there's a video intercom that can be accessed via an app or web browser from anywhere in the world. You can appreciate that words like 'wireless' are hard to pin down. In modern systems this might mean Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, ZigBee, BlueTooth, 433 or 866mHz, as well as spread spectrum devices - and that's on the system side. On the monitoring station and customer side wireless means 3G, 4G and 5G -the best solutions aren't going to use just one comms path for monitoring, so there's that to consider.
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