Alarm System IP Network with PSTN Output

摘要

Alarm customers on VoIP may use an adapter for conversion to Internet Protocol (IP) signals or may have an alarm system that uses IP signals to transmit alarm signals over the Internet. IP signals from alarm customers may go to any monitoring center for alarm system monitoring. IP signals from alarm systems using IP conversion equipment can go only to monitoring centers with specialized receiving equipment specific to the type of transmitting equipment in use at the customer's premises. There is a pool of customers, whose dealers would convert to IP and stay with the current monitoring center if the center invested in receiving equipment. For the many small centers who will not or cannot invest in receiving equipment, the present invention will take IP signals from any or all brands of IP transmitting equipment, to a central server then retransmit to any center over POTS to the alarm monitoring center. Thus, an alarm monitoring center need not invest in a number of different IP monitoring systems in order to be IP monitoring compliant.

主权项

1. A method comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a middleware server, a plurality of customer alarm signals having different formats, each of the customer alarms signals received from a different alarm panel associated with a different alarm system at a different premises, converting, at the middleware server, the plurality of customer alarm signals into monitoring center alarm signals having a common format, and transmitting from the middleware server to an alarm monitoring center the monitoring center alarm signals having the common format, for display at the alarm monitoring center as respective alarm signal messages.