Alarm verification.

To reduce the number of false alarms associated with burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. signals, Diebold, Incorporated, of North Canton, Ohio North Canton is a city in Stark County in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 16,369 at the 2000 census. History

1831: The Community of North Canton first began as the Village of New Berlin. Residents were primarily of German descent.

, has implemented enhanced alarm verification. When a burglary signal is received, the Diebold event monitoring In computer science, event monitoring is the process of collecting, analyzing, and signalling event occurrences to subscribers such as operating system processes, active database rules as well as human operators. center will first call the customer's site. If there is no answer, a second call will be placed to a predetermined pre·de·ter·mine
v. pre·de·ter·mined, pre·de·ter·min·ing, pre·de·ter·mines

v.tr.
1. To determine, decide, or establish in advance: contact person. Only then will law enforcement be contacted. The monitoring center can also perform verification via video monitoring, using advanced equipment to look, listen, and talk to those at the alarm site. 405

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Publication:	Security Management
Date:	Apr 1, 2005
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