Instant Home Security notification brought to you by NextAlarm
If you’re at work, out and about or just chillin’ at your neighbor’s, it’s pretty difficult to know if your home security system is going off. To solve that problem, NextAlarm today announced V-Notify, an automated Interactive Voice Response system that will immediately call a customer’s cell or business number and let them know something bad is going down. Customers can also log into their security system through NextAlarm.com or call into it from any phone to get the system status and, for those using the Alarm Broadband Network, change the system settings. For serious alarms, it can even cross-connect customers with their local police, fire department or paramedics. V-Notify comes standard in paid NextAlarm plans, which cost $5 per month for NextAlarm and $11.95 per month for Full Dispatch Monitoring. It’s not included in the Free NextAlarm Notify Plan, which is, uh, free. V-Notify sounds pretty similar to their existing E-Notify service except for the addition of a voice attendant, but let’s hope it’s a little better than a letter change and a lovely voice.
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I think NextAlarm’s system is alright, I used to use it. It’s not great though and their support isn’t good. I’ve had much better luck with uControl’s system. It uses broadband, cellular, and your phone line to provide connectivity at all times (as opposed to NextAlarm only working over broadband, which goes down all the time). They also have all the same stuff on their management interface, actually more than what NextAlarm has. Notifications, etc. are all there and configurable by the user to control the level of information you get. There are a few other systems I found out there as well, but they all want you to rip out your security system and start over with theirs. uControl and NextAlarm are the only ones that I’ve found that work with exiting systems.
on January 10, 2007 at 08:09 PM - LINK