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Home Alarm Systems – Real Burglary Stories from FrontPoint Customers

By:
Peter M. Rogers
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FrontPoint knows when its alarm subscribers experience real break-ins. First, we get the facts from our central station, but our customers also tell us what happened, including how their alarm systems caught the intruders in the act. I posted recently on a small business that survived a forced entry (including how the FrontPoint system still worked, despite a direct hitfrom a baseball bat!). Today I’m sharing a story from a Saginaw, Michigan customer who was broken into. In this case, the bad guy tore out a first-floor screen and came in through the window – but the system’s motion sensor caught him. Here’s what happened next:

- Since there is no “entry delay” after a motion sensor activation, the FrontPoint system immediately went into intrusion mode.
- The system’s siren (roughly 100db) sounded, scaring off the intruder.
- The FrontPoint system used its built-in cellular radio to contact the monitoring center.
- The customer received an email notification of the intrusion event on her BlackBerry.
- The monitoring center called the customer to verify the intrusion event.
- With the customer not home, it appeared to be a real intrusion, so the monitoring center dispatched the police.