When our Central Station operator, Chaz, received a motion alarm in the middle of the night, he dispatched police to a furniture business we monitor. Local law enforcement apprehended one person who was inside the building. The suspect broke a front glass window to gain entry. He had also damaged equipment in an attempt to get the alarm to stop. No merchandise was damaged or stolen, and the suspect was taken into custody by police. Call us today for a free quote on protecting your property at (800)444-1191. Nice job, Chaz and officers!
Happy New Year!
Is your inventory protected?
Is inventory time approaching? Do you worry about inventory being unaccounted for or if it is well-protected in your shop? Keep your inventory safe around the clock with a verified video alarm from Sonitrol. With a variety of indoor and outdoor video and camera options, we can find the perfect video system to fit your company’s needs.
When you lock up for the night, know our 24/7 Central Station monitoring team will keep an eye on your facility. If an alarm is triggered, our team can view live video from your location and provide authorities with details about what is happening, including suspect descriptions and locations. You, the business owner, can view videos, of course, any time twenty-four hours a day from your cell phone or computer.
Maybe it’s time to catalogue inventory at your company. View video from your home or office to see who is checking the inventory or who is accessing the inventory space. Perhaps you just want good video protection of your merchandise, supplies, or employee workspaces. Whatever the case, we have the solution for you.
Day or night, our verified video alarms will provide you with peace of mind. Call us for a free quote on a commercial video alarm today at (800)444-1191.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Team Sonitrol! We are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, thanks to a team of amazing people. We want to give our Central Station monitoring team a special shout-out for their hard work this holiday season keeping an eye on crime. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
How to stop catalytic converter thefts!
Outdoor lots are the constant targets of catalytic converter thefts. From businesses with outdoor vehicle inventory, whether maintenance, school, or business vehicles, to vehicles parked outside in a company lot, criminals flock to these locations. As a business owner, you may think a fence will keep your vehicles safe when you lock up for the night, but unfortunately, it takes more than that to deter these criminals. They quietly sneak through the dark over fences or gates and cut the catalytic converters from underneath vehicles.
What can you do?
A fence may deter them, slow them down, or even change their mind, but they are still obstacles criminals are known to get around. Still, having a good fence can’t hurt, so make sure your fences are built high and secure, with good locks and that your entire outdoor inventory is enclosed. At the very least, the fence will provide privacy and may even limit crimes of opportunity.
Keep your parking lot well-lit. Motion detector lights and well positioned lights around the lot can help prevent criminals from sneaking onto the lot. You can never have too many lights.
Consider putting in a monitored video solution from Sonitrol so we can CATCH THEM IN THE ACT. This is the most obvious solution to deterring catalytic converter thefts. Our outdoor cameras are top of the line, durable, and reliable. With a monitored video system, our 24/7 monitoring station will receive an alarm and know the instant anyone is near the property and begin viewing live video. This allows our team to dispatch police to the outdoor lot. It also allows our operators to provide descriptions of the suspects to police as they head to the scene. The best part? The criminals won’t even know the police are on the way, and police can apprehend them while they are still on the lot.
If you’d like to have a free security consultation, contact us at (800)444-1191.
Retail security
With Sonitrol’s comprehensive security solutions, you can add indoor and outdoor cameras, panic buttons, and access control to your retail location. These features and more add on to our existing audio-intrusion alarms.
During operating hours, leave your worries about theft from a customer or even an employee behind with the ability to view live video from your home, phone, or office. Play back features allow you to resolve any issue that may arise.
Let your closing staff feel at ease by having them set the alarm to occupied while they close out cash registers and lock up for the day. Panic buttons allow them to send for help if anyone tries to cause trouble.
After hours, sleep easy knowing our 24/7 Central Station monitoring team is keeping an eye on your business location and will dispatch police in the event of an emergency or attempted break-in. In addition to our security plans, we offer fire systems that will alert our team the moment a smoke detector is triggered.
With so many DIY alarms on the market, it may be tempting to settle, but Sonitrol alarms are trusted by police and have been a leader in the commercial alarm industry for over fifty years. Call us today for a free quote with a security design consultant at (800)444-1191.
Keeping your office safe!
Protect your office day or night with a verified alarm from Sonitrol.
During the daytime, keep staff safe with managed access control. This allows you to choose who has access to different areas of the building, when they have that access, and to edit users. Each employee will carry their own key fob, programmed with their accessibility, so they can come and go through entrances. With access control, there is no need to worry about unauthorized people entering your workspace or off-limit areas. Access control is time stamped and dated with detailed logs for you to view at any time.
Add indoor and outdoor cameras to the office so you can prevent internal and external theft or settle slip and fall claims. Panic buttons are another great feature to alarms so that with the push of a button, our Central Station monitoring team can dispatch emergency responders to your location.
After hours, our audio-intrusion technology will keep the bad guys away, and our fire systems will alert us the moment smoke is detected. With over fifty years of securing the community, we are an industry leader in commercial alarms. Sonitrol alarms provide comprehensive coverage for your protection. Our security design consultants will tailor the system just for your needs. Call us for a free quote: (800) 444-1191.
Protecting Schools
Whether school is in session, or it is after hours, having a good commercial security system is crucial to protect your campus. With Sonitrol’s Safe Schools program, you can have comprehensive security, including panic buttons, video, access control, and fire monitoring.
When your school is protected by a Sonitrol alarm, you have a twenty-four-seven monitoring team at your fingertips. During school hours, if a staff member presses a panic button, our Central Station is instantly alerted. This allows our team to immediately dispatch law enforcement to the school. Once the panic is pressed, they can also begin to listen in via the audio sensors and even view live video if you have cameras. Then, they can relay critical information about the crisis to police as they race to the scene. If, for example, there is a threat, such as an active shooter, our team can provide details about the suspect’s appearance and location to the police. This helps our police be better prepared as they enter the facility. We have even added the latest in commercial security technology with Gunshot Detection to our Safe Schools program. Gunshot Detection is yet another way to guarantee police will be dispatched instantly during an emergency. We truly care about keeping your students, teachers, and staff safe!
If the school is locked up for the night, and the system is armed, our Central Station will be alerted the moment of any disturbance. With Sonitrol’s audio-impact technology, when a person makes noise as they attempt entry, such as breaking a window or beating a door with a crowbar, or even cutting a hole through a rooftop or wall, (which has been attempted before), the audio sensors will detect the noise. Our Central Station will dispatch law enforcement to the school at once. In many cases, police arrest suspects at school locations before they have even made it inside the facility. This prevents significant loss and often prevents any damages at all to your school. If you’d like to include indoor and outdoor video cameras with your system, we have many state-of-the-art camera options.
If a fire starts, our smoke detectors will alert our team, and fire departments will be dispatched immediately. Add access control to certain doors of your school to give staff a keyless mode of entry and to be sure only authorized personnel can access particular areas. Whatever your school security needs are, our security design consultants will walk through your facility and take the time to design the ideal system for you to make sure your students and facility are safe. Call us today for a free quote at (800)444-1191.
Leader in Security
With over fifty years of experience protecting businesses, churches, and schools around the world, Sonitrol is the third largest commercial security company in North America. Sonitrol systems provide floor to ceiling, wall to wall, 100 % volumetric protection.
Our security systems are designed by our team and tailored to your property to fit your specific needs. We offer audio intrusion alarms, access control, cameras, video monitoring, fire systems, panic buttons, and more.
Our Central Station is open 365 days a year, around the clock, so you can trust our team will keep an eye on your facility when you are away. Whether you arm your system when you leave for the night or press a panic button during business hours because of a daytime threat, we will keep your business secure. We have even added the latest in security products, Gunshot Detection technology, for active shooter situations.
In the event of an emergency, our team verifies the alarm and dispatches police or fire, depending on the situation. With a proven record of verifying alarms and being a leader in security, police know they can trust Sonitrol. Our criminal apprehension rate is 182,704 and counting.
If you’d like to see how Sonitrol can protect your commercial property, contact us for a free quote and consultation at (800)444-1191.
Audio-intrusion alarms are trusted by police.
Business owners with unverified, conventional alarms are more likely to be the victim of burglary and theft than those with a verified, audio-intrusion alarm from Sonitrol. Why? Because of our innovative audio intrusion alarms, our Central Station operators can detect a break-in before the suspects have gained entry to the building, while they are still trying to break-in. This means the police can catch the intruders before they have even had a chance to get away with thousands of dollars in merchandise and before they’ve physically damaged the premises.
Why was the audio intrusion alarm invented?
This technology was created over fifty years ago by an inventor and his friend, a police officer who was tired of seeing traditional alarms let the criminals get away. By the time this officer, Al Cronk, would be dispatched to a business with a motion-based alarm, the bad guys had already done the damage, stolen merchandise, and fled the scene. That’s when he teamed up with Robert Baxter, his inventor friend, who had created the audio sensor. Together, they created an alarm company that perpetrators couldn’t outsmart. Audio intrusion alarms from Sonitrol have been trusted by law enforcement ever since because they catch intruders. In fact, Sonitrol’s current apprehension number is 182,000 and counting!
How do audio-intrusion alarms work?
Unlike conventional alarms that depend on motion detectors alone, our audio intrusion security uses sound-based technology that detects the faintest sounds, making them so much more effective than motion-based alarms. If an intruder uses a crowbar or anything to beat against a door, window, wall, or roof, or if they make noises, which they will, as they attempt entry into your facility, the audio sensors will alert Central Station. Our 24/7 monitoring team will listen-in at this point to determine if it’s something as simple as a warehouse mouse, the A/C kicking on, or if there is a real break-in attempt in progress. This allows them to verify the break-in and dispatch police. Since our alarms are silent, the bad guys won’t even know that the police have been dispatched and are on the way. Even if they make it inside the building before the police arrive, they will be leaving in handcuffs. Sonitrol has a proven history of criminal apprehensions and is trusted by law enforcement for a reason.
If you’d like to secure your facility with an audio-intrusion alarm system, trusted by police, call us for a free quote at (800)444-1191.