Alarm systems can be used by anyone to monitor anything that can change state. Alarm systems are put onto glass windows to detect breakage. They can be set to either light detect or gross detect. It is important to test alarm systems after installation.
A building by an airport that has glass breakage detectors as part of their alarm systems will not want an active alarm every time a plane flies over. A service technician that services alarm systems can adjust the sensitivity of glass breakage detectors if a problem arises.
Alarm systems sometimes come with an access control system. The card reader systems available through Kastle Systems are the proximity reader, the insert reader, the swipe reader and the turn-style reader. The Kastle Systems alarm systems have programmable access cards that can also control tenant alarm systems.
In the office buildings that have chosen Kastle Systems for their alarm systems, a lot of the tenants also choose to purchase a Kastle System. The alarm systems that Kastle installs are also monitored by them at a central monitoring center.
Kastle has people in their Houston monitoring center monitoring alarm systems in Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston. They also lock and unlock buildings remotely from this location. The communication with the alarm systems is constant and done with a dedicated circuit. Kastle monitors their own equipment as well as the alarm systems in the buildings.
Alarm systems can be used cleverly in banks. There are alarm systems that can put a sensor in the place where one hundred dollars bills are kept in a teller’s cash drawer. If an override switch is not turned prior to removing the last bill in the drawer, a signal is sent to the monitoring center.
Kastle Systems has a completely customizable system for monitoring alarm systems. Whenever an alarm is activated, a message is sent to the alarm console in the monitoring center. The message that activates is customized by the client and their account manager.
Sometimes when an alarm activates, all that is supposed to happen is to notify the onsite security guard. In some buildings, there is a request to notify local authorities to respond.
Alarm systems activate for a lot of different reasons. Not all of the reasons are sinister. Kastle Systems also monitors a lot of fire alarm systems in large office buildings. It is against the fire code to not call the fire department when a fire alarm activates.
Alarm systems are routinely serviced and preventative maintenance is done periodically. More often than not, if an alarm sounds on the tenth floor of a building each and every night, then the siren on that floor is probably burnt out. Kastle Systems has field service representatives that check sirens nightly.
Hundreds of high profile buildings in Houston and Dallas have Kastle Systems for all of the alarm systems needs. Kastle can provide an access control system, automatic locking and unlocking at scheduled times, constant monitoring of the fire panel and monitoring capabilities of answering emergency elevator telephones.
Kastle Systems was started in Washington DC by an elevator repairman. Alarm systems are installed professionally and Kastle Systems is considered by many industry professionals as the Cadillac in alarm systems.
The programming department at Kastle Systems is very knowledgeable. The head programmer at the Houston office has been there for many years and wrote the language that is used for the monitoring of the Kastle installed alarm systems.
The installation department consists of pairs of technicians. Alarm systems take a long time to install. The Kastle technicians pull their own wire and install their own sensors. Before the alarm systems start being monitored, they have to be tested with the programming department.
One of the most interesting jobs at Kastle Systems is the Service Coordinator. The service coordinator sometimes tests alarm systems with the installers. The service coordinator also operates as an extra person in the monitoring center.
Account managers have an easy job selling alarm systems to tenants that are already in a Kastle controlled building. They sell keypad systems and card systems for spaces. There is a monthly monitoring and maintenance fee for alarm systems with Kastle. If a tenant chooses not to pay for maintenance, they will be charged for all service calls.
One of the more interesting alarm systems was put into a Houston law firm and protects the firm’s art. There are sensors behind the paintings that activate an alarm if the paintings are moved without turning a key first. The art in that law firm is fantastic and deserved alarm systems.
Large office buildings have a lot of things that help them run properly. A building engineer is the person in charge of looking after and maintaining the building’s various mechanical systems. Kastle Systems alarm systems has designed a way to operate the air conditioning system at an office building.
The tenants in the Pennzoil building in downtown Houston call Kastle to have air conditioning after hours. They use the access card number for the alarm systems as they do to request air conditioning. The employees have to give Kastle requested information before the air is activated.
Access cards can have an infinite number of authorization classess. The building engineers usually have access cards that will unlock all of the building’s card readers. The building engineer does not usually have access to turn off tenant alarm systems.
