5 Benefits of a Wireless Home Security System.

When you’re choosing a security system, consider these five reasons to go wireless with Titan Alarm.

1: It’s More Secure

Titan Alarm systems use a secure cellular connection that is fast and reliable, enabling real-time awareness and alerts from your home, and combating many of the weaknesses you’ll find on other types of system. For example, there is no exposed phone or cable line to be cut from the outside of the house that would render a traditional system useless.

Traditionally wired home security systems are also rendered useless when your power, phone or Internet service goes out. Titan Alarm’s wireless security system uses a secure cellular connection and battery-powered back-up so that that an alarm will always be signaled in an emergency. This means that your home automation will still work: your lights can turn on to deter people, and your HVAC system can shut down in case of fire so you don’t blow smoke through the house.

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2: It’s Easier to Install, With Faster Support

With Titan Alarm, it’s easy to replace an existing system or add a new one. We can help you identify your needs, configure the best solution and then install your hardware.

Another big benefit of the cellular connection is the improved ability for support and troubleshooting from our customer support center. In the past, every issue with your wired system required a visit from a technician. Now, with Titan Alarm, we have ‘over-the-air’ tools that remotely access your system to quickly identify and even fix issues on the fly.

3: It’s Flexible and Versatile

Because wireless sensors are easy to move (and add), you can use them to keep track of all sorts of things around your home, with real-time alerts that keep you aware of what’s happening.

Door and window sensors are small enough to keep tabs on a medicine cabinet, monitor the gate to your pool, or make sure that a safe isn’t accessed without you knowing right away. This will increase the awareness of what goes on within your home, not just on the outside.

4: It’s Easy to Expand Your System

As you and your family grow and change, your needs change too. Titan Alarm’s wireless technology is portable, flexible, and adapts to you.

With a child on the way, you might want to add a camera to your nursery – no problem. When your kids become more mobile, you can add extra sensors to kitchen cabinets or the freezer. If you’re travelling more for business and need to hire a petsitter, it’s simple to add a smart lock to let them come and go.

No matter what you may need to add in the future, you can be confident now that your security system will expand when the time comes.

5: It’s the Foundation of a True Smart Home

The Smart Home platform that powers Titan Alarm’s Smart Home Security systems supports a full range of connected devices that go beyond security to make your home smarter and more efficient.

You can easily upgrade to see what’s happening at home with HD video, manage your energy use with a smart thermostat to save money, and control access to your home with automated locks and integrated garage door controls – with everything controlled through a single app.

We continually add new capabilities to our wireless solutions too, so you don’t have to worry about being locked into a technology that doesn’t keep up with the latest developments in the Smart Home industry.

Interested in a wireless home security system powered by Alarm.com? Give us a call! 1-800-973-9001

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Updated by Titan Alarm on November 5, 2018.

5 Great Things Titan Alarm’s Geo Service does for You

Imagine if your house knew when you were on your way home, and took action to ensure the perfect temperature when you arrive.  Or, if when you left, your home reminded you if you forgot to arm your security system or lock the front door.

With a Titan Alarm Smart Home, this is a reality, thanks to Geo-Services, our location-based home automation feature. This opt-in feature is easy to turn on and off, and is included in the majority of Titan Alarm packages.

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Geo-Services uses your smartphone’s location to take useful actions on your behalf while you’re out, ranging from a simple notification to a real action such as adjusting your thermostat.

It works by using your smartphone’s location to determine where you are, relative to your home’s location. When you reach a certain distance from your house – defined by a circular “geo-fence” which you create yourself in your Alarm.com app – Geo-Services can take a range of actions on your behalf. Here are five of the best.

Note: if you ever lose your smartphone, you can disable your Alarm.com smartphone login from a desktop computer.

1: Alert you if you leave your home unsecured.

Ever got halfway to work and then wondered you’ve left your home unsecured? Geo-Services means that you’ll never wonder again. If you leave your house without arming your security system or locking your smart locks, your Alarm.com app will notify you as soon as you cross your geo-fence. Thanks to the ability to remotely control your security system, all you need to do is arm your system (or lock your doors) through your app, and keep going – there’s no need to turn around.

2: Come home to a bright welcome on dark evenings.

Geo-services gives you more than just reminders—you can also automate certain tasks. One of the easiest is lighting. Simply program your smart lighting solution to come on when you cross your Home geo-fence at the end of the day, and you’ll find your entryway brightly lit when you arrive home.

3: Save energy when you leave home; enjoy comfort when you return

Turning down your heating or cooling when you leave your house saves energy and money. But, when you’re running late, with work or a road trip on your mind, your thermostat is the last thing you think of.

The answer is a smart thermostat, automated with Geo-Services.

4: Turn your video monitoring off when you’re home.

While you don’t want to miss an important video monitoring event while you’re out, you have less need for monitoring when you’re home. Geo-Services can automatically pause your home monitoring when you’re within your Home geo-fence – meaning that no recording of you and your family takes place.

5: Build smarter rules with multiple geo-fences

A one-mile distance around your home isn’t the ideal geo-fence for every task: heating and cooling takes longer to achieve than turning your lights on. Alarm.com lets you set up as many geo-fences as you like, customized to within one-tenth of a mile. A second geo-fence around your office location, for example, gives your HVAC system more time to get your home’s temperature perfect before you get there.

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Updated by Titan Alarm on November 5, 2018.

Combine Home Automation and Home Security

home_automationTechnology has advanced greatly in the last few decades. We now have phones that are more powerful and more useful than a desktop computer was only a decade ago, cars that park themselves, and cloud systems to store, and share the moments that make our lives.

Shouldn’t your home security system be more advanced and useful too?

Most security companies offer discount systems based on out of date technology. Often requiring land line telephones, hard wired sensors and cameras that are dependent on outdated technology and simply don’t work as well as they should.

At Titan Alarm we believe in advancing home security to keep pace with new technologies. Our systems combine the most advanced wireless monitoring devices, two way communication, video verification, motion and break detection with the latest software, smartphone access and control application to secure your home in the most advanced and cost effective way possible. But we didn’t stop there. We believe your security system should offer the more useful features for your life. That’s why we have combined home security with home automation to create cost effective ways to automate your life while protecting your home and family.

Home Security

We believe first in foremost in protecting what matters most, you, your home and family. Our systems offer 24/7 Emergency response, to breaking, fires, co2 and more. Titan Alarm’s systems are tamper resistant and based on cellular technology so they don’t rely on being plugged into a phone line to work. Our systems offer real time alerts, even when the system is disarmed and are fully controlled via an elegant and easy to use mobile app.

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We have combined our home security panel with energy management technology that interfaces wirelessly with your thermostat to create cost and energy savings in your home and business. Our system will automatically adjust your homes temperature based on your settings. We combine location services of your smart phone to know when you leave which can trigger the alarm to be set and you’re your thermostat to automatically adjust to create cost savings. On a hot summer day theres no need to waste money in the heat of the day cooling an empty home, our system will detect that no one is home and automatically adjust the thermostat to save money, then using your cell phones location our system will automatically begin cooling your home when you are a preset distance away ensuring that your home will be cool and ready on your arrival

Seamless Integration

We connect the key devices in your home seamlessly to create intelligent home automation control that is not available from out of the box automation solutions. Our systems can lock and unlock your doors, control your garage doors, solar systems, turn on and off lights and plugged in appliances, monitor water usage, energy usage and more, all from a sophisticated mobile app.

By combining security and home automation, our software can adaptively learn to serve your needs. A connected home is more than turning off lights and locking doors, we combine all the data from all devices to create a system of connected devices that all work together to serve your needs, lower energy costs and secure your home and creating a system that adapts to your needs.

Best of all everything updates and configures automatically, we make things easier for you while saving you money and securing your home. Titan Alarm’s security and automation systems are priced similar to most alarm companies basic security packages but offer more than you can dream of. Take the next step in creating a home that protects and serves your family, contact a Titan Alarm representative today.

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Updated by Titan Alarm on November 5, 2018.

How to Prevent Copper Theft

coppertheftCopper theft is growing problem facing businesses and home owners in Phoenix and surrounding areas. Since 2008 copper and other metal thefts have risen every year and accounted for billions of dollars in losses across the nation. In 2012 over 10,000 residences in Arizona filed insurance claims for copper theft. With continued high prices for copper and other metals sold as scrap and legislation proving ineffective its important for residents and business owners to take steps to protect their home and businesses from metal theft.

Copper and metal thieves target any exposed metal on your property. Recently thieves went as far to steal copper from electrical poles around Tempe town lake. Often thieves target roof top HVAC systems, electrical conduits, utility boxes, exposed plumbing and other hard to see areas. Because metal is nearly impossible to trace, thieves are able to sell the stolen metal for scrap.

Fortunately there are ways to protect your home and business and prevent copper theft.

Video Surveillance and Monitoring

One of the most effective ways to catch a copper thief is to install a video surveillance and monitored alarm system. However all systems are not created equal. Most traditional CCTV systems sold by most alarm companies are hardwired and rely on using the video after the crime has occurred to identify the suspects. This is often not effective and results in few arrests and does not prevent the crime from occurring. Because traditional CCTV systems are hardwired, and copper theft often involves cutting and stealing electrical and video wire, security systems are often rendered unoperational and ineffective during the copper theft.

Titan Alarm has worked with leading industry companies developed systems to prevent copper theft by catching the thieves in the act or before the crime is committed. Our systems combine wireless motion detector with video IP video cameras that capture and identify movement using sophisticated software, triggering video monitoring, day or night, and alerting our central monitoring station which will verify the video and dispatch authorities up to 90% faster than traditional systems. Our systems are wireless and discreet, to the average person they don’t appear like a video camera and operate over cellular service, so even if the camera itself is stolen it will still continue to send video and location information. Resulting in more arrests.

Video Verification

Traditional security often trigger false alarms, and because of this many jurisdictions require verification to receive a priority response from law enforcement. A verified alarm triggers a priority response from police allowing them to arrive in time to stop damage or theft of your property. Titan Alarm has partnered with leading security companies to offer video verification of alarm events. Our systems capture video once a senor is activated, the video can quickly be verified as a real event and dispatch police within seconds. The differences in response times is often dramatic making video verification a must for companies that are serious about protecting livelihood.  In Phoenix Arizona an unverified alarm had an average response time of up to two hours, a Titan Verified video alarm has an average response time of 5min 13sec. Allowing ample time for the police to arrive and stop the theft before its complete.

Other Steps to Preventing Copper Theft:

Managed Access Control

Often access to the job site, facility or residence is what allows copper theft to occur. Securing your properties perimeter is important to preventing copper theft.

Using motion detectors and IP video surveillance and verified alarm systems combined with managed access controls on all gates, doors and latters is a good way to protect your property. Access control systems for gates, doors and entrances allows your employees, family and friends to have access to your property while stopping all others. Our advanced software based systems can identify intruders and detect whether the motion that triggered the alarm was actually an intruder or was an animal or other non threatening motion. By using smart software along with video verification you can insure the quickest response time and fewer false alarms.

Speak with a security consultant.

Like most things, if you are serious about doing it right, its best to speak with an expert. At Titan Alarm we have decades of experience preventing theft. We employ only the top experts in the field, with back grounds in security, law enforcement and technology. Our security experts will work with you to create a cost effective and highly effective system to ensure the safety or your property and investment.

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Updated by Titan Alarm on November 2, 2018.

Titan Product Overview

2 GIG Go Control System

  • Vibrant Color Touch Screen Display
  • 48 Wireless Zones; 2 Hardwire Zones
  • Fully Self Contained
  • Optional GSM Radio Module
  • Remotely Control Panel Settings over POTS or Cellular*
  • Two-way Voice over POTS or Cellular
  • Over-The-Air Update Functionality (with GSM Radio)*
  • Built-in Z-Wave Home Control
  • Weather Information Display (with GSM Radio)*
  • 24-hour Backup Battery (with optional battery)
  • 8 User Codes
  • Quick Arm/Exit
  • CSFM Listed
  • ETL Listed to UL 985, UL 1023, UL 1635 ULC-S545-02, ULC-Subject C1023 and ANSI/SIA CP-01-2007

Go! Control Alarm Panel

  • Color Touch Screen Display
  • Fully Self Contained
  • GSM Cellular Radio
  • Remotely Control Panel Settings
  • Two-way Voice Over cellular
  • Over-the-air Update Functionality
  • Built-in Z-Wave Home Control
  • 48 Wireless Zones
  • 2 Hardwire Zones
  • Weather Information Display
  • 24-hour Backup Battery
  • 8 Usercodes
  • Quick Arm/Exit

Wireless Keypad

  • Arms system in STAY or AWAY mode
  • Disarms system
  • Fire and Panic emergency functions
  • Lithium coin batteries with 5 years life

Thermostat

  • Z-Wave Programmable Thermostat
  • 5-1-1 day programmable
  • Large, easy-to-read LED backlit display
  • Runs on 3 AAA batteries and/or HVAC power
  • Thin, sleek design

Door Sensor

  • Magnet Dimensions: 1.3 x 0.435 x 0.312 in.
  • Sensor Dimensions: 2.59 x 1.03 x 0.49 in.
  • Fully supervised
  • Lithium batteries with 5 years life
  • Reed sensitivity: 0.625 in. minimum gap, 0.85 in. typical
  • Tamper protected

Super Switch

  • Converts hardwire zones to wireless frequency
  • Converts 8 zones per module (additional modules may be added)
  • Integrates with 12-Volt panels
  • Easily connects to existing control panel’s battery
  • Provides power backup through existing hardwire panel

 

Panic Pendent

  • For triggering emergency alarm
  • Dimensions: 1.65 x 1.20 x 0.50 in. (LxWxH)
  • Weight: 0.45 oz. (including battery)
  • 5-second button lockout
  • Lithium battery with 3 years life
  • Completely water resistant
  • Completely supervisable
  • Mounting options: Lanyard, wristband, wall mount, belt clip, car-visor clip

4 Button Key Remote

  • Arms system in STAY or AWAY mode
  • Disarms system
  • Auxiliary output and emergency functions
  • Lithium coin battery with 5 years life

Wireless Photoelectric Smoke Alarm

  • Photoelectric-type detector
  • Two status indicators
  • Built-in 85 dBA sounder
  • Lithium battery
  • Fully supervised

GlassBreak Detector

  • Monitors for the sound of breaking glass
  • Two test LEDs
  • Dual shatter recognition technology
  • Lithium batteries with 5 years life
  • 360° range
  • Tamper protected

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Updated by Titan Alarm on November 5, 2018.