Alarm Concept - Comments Please?

[ABAKER]

Ooops...

There seems to have been some activity while I was putting the kid to bed.....

The rules in Germany.

Residential intruder alarms are almost nonexistant. They are incredibly expensive to have installed, there are few installers and as such little competition. I had a quote for this home for contacts and those "window bug" things you stick on the windows, 4 PIRS and 8 smoke detectors. The panel was a GE (I would have to look up the model) expanded to 48 zones. They wanted 14000 Euros PLUS CABLING!!!! They wanted 832 Euros for the panel - minus expanders - ridiculous.

Online prices for DIY (for example the Texacom International Series 832) sells for around 200 Euros (twice the price of the Premier 48). Prices for detectors are also around double. The installers apparently double up on this online price.

DIY is really the only affordable option. I would order the stuff out of Great Britain, of course. I want to have the manuals in English, anyways - I'm a lumberjack, remember? I'm Canadian who's moved here 7 years ago.

Allright. Having said that, I am going to return to my Licher.

OImALumberjack

(and I'm OK..)

I note from your replies that you intend to install some sort of speech dialler? As your premise is sort of remote could you not connect the panel up to a GSM device which would provide the panel with a dial tone. As I'm sure the first thing the Intruder would do would be to cut the lines. Of course if you Telephone lines are buried no problem. I am currently monitoring premises in Spain for ex pats & I supply the Chip (foc) to the installer who also happens to own these properties (who said there was no money in installs) & they dial into my Alarm Receiving Centre based over here in Plymouth & we call the nominated Keyholders. From what I remember of Germany the Installation company sells the connection to the ARC over there who upon receiving an alert call out a nominated Guarding Company normally associated with the Installer. The ARC charges the end user direct which is in total contrast to the way things are done over here. I agree domestic Intruder alarms are virtually non-existent over there & monitored ones even more of a rare beast. Anyway I wish you luck with your installation.

Seasonal Wishes.

Adrian

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