Reinventing Security Central Stations
Collecting, analyzing and distributing Big Data is the next central station revolution.
The IP revolution offers tremendous benefits to small companies, and it is egalitarian; it does not only benefit the big companies. Even small companies can leverage the technology and investment of cloud providers. Large wholesale central stations can already be observed evolving to be leaders in technology and providing “cloud central” services at prices rivaling any datacenter.
Transitioning to the Future
Why buy when you can rent? Do you lease vehicles? Most likely your business had done the analysis to determine cost savings and operational improvements. The move to the cloud is similarly driven by economics and quality of service. Datacenters deploy hardware, software and infrastructure, and provide support on a large scale. You can rent a small slice cost-effectively.
The fundamental value proposition is lopsided. Today’s wholesale providers already deliver quality monitoring for $5 per month while a small central struggles to deliver the service at twice the cost. Cloud central is the alarm industry brand of datacenter built on the foundation of wholesale central stations. They can deliver technology, services or both. Consider the following:
- Wholesale central stations are datacenters with power and computers built to higher standards than most independent central stations.
- Wholesale centrals take advantage of broadband volume to reduce the cost of communications and employ multiple sources for redundancy.
- A new level of service allows wholesalers to connect to your central station in real-time.
- Signals and voice calls can be routed to your office and backed up at the wholesale operator.
- Data can be stored locally AND at the wholesale operator, providing redundancy at several locations.
- Technical support is available on demand.
- New technology adoption is usually available to test without significant cost.
- IT resources for development can be there to meet customer demands.
- Eliminating night and weekend monitoring in your office can reduce staff required by 500 hours per month with two operators.
Redundancy has come a long way from simple disk mirroring. With technology offered by today’s vendors, connectivity is no problem. Voice, data and video arrive where and when you need them, globally. Similarly, hardware is available so wholesale providers can enable both local servers with a complete suite of features to be operational locally. And centralized servers provide continuous real-time backup. Redundant sites have become cost-effective and are activated with simple keyboard commands.
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