Some people just don't seem to understand subtle disdain and sarcasm when it is evident. My point, is that my original comment related to the sad dependency of most alarm system on copper phone lines. A system that is ancient and hardly reliable. That being said, if a system is only connected to a phone line, there is no redundancy and there is no real live check on the system that would alert you to it being offline. What I mean by that of course, is the majority of all alarm systems report to the receiver only every 24 hours. This of course is not all systems, DMP systems you can make report every damn minute if you would like. So unless the systems report every minute, then you have no way of knowing if the system were to be down on a live time scale. So therefore, on the majority of systems, to have them report live, you would have to implement something else as an addition to the system which is in no way cost efficient to the client or to the overhead on your IT staff, Which was the entire purpose of my statement of why is the majority of the systems out there are dependent on an archaic form of communication and do not support live minute by minute check in to a central station receiver. However, if the industry would stop being held back by stupidity, change averse, and greed, then everyone would move to systems with more reliable communication such as full data transfer of cell towers built into the alarm system without a module add on with possible IP backup. Systems which not only have those more reliable forms of communication but also can utilize a more real time check in with the central station receiver. Now, from another point of view, if you have 30,000 monitored alarm systems and they all had live check in every minute to your receiver, then you would have to invest far more into your infrastructure and staff than if you used the industry standard of 24hour check ins.
On a final note, do not assume to understand what you are talking about unless you have an overall knowledge across the board from a technical perspective, a financial perspective, and a staff management perspective. So for the future, realize subtle sarcasm more effectively before you open your mouth about a subject that even though you have knowledge about, you apparently do not grasp the knowledge from a stand point that goes beyond a technical standpoint.
