More on Home with ADT Fire Alarm burns to ground as it relates to working from home issue July 3, 2024

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More on Home with ADT Fire Alarm burns to ground as it relates to working from home issue
July 3,  2024

More on Home with ADT Fire Alarm burns to ground as it relates to working from home issue from article on June 10, 2024

Ken,
Many years ago I was asked by an attorney to look at an ADT residential fire system where the FD was already at the house fighting the fire before they received the alarm and called the FD. It was a two story house with an open staircase in the front, stair was part of the living room near the front door, bedrooms on the second floor. The only smoke detector was on the ceiling of the first floor near the bottom of the stair, no detectors on the second floor where the fire started. Also a problem would have been if a fire had started past the living room in the dining or kitchen area smoke would have gone up the stair opening to the second floor before reaching the smoke detector at the far end. Good contracts are needed to protect us, but, we shouldn't be relying on contracts to install bad protection to keep us safe and put the subscriber in harms way. At a very minimum the house needed more than one smoke detector, but, had the installer placed it at the top of the stairs in the open hall instead of downstairs it would have signaled much sooner and may have been of some help. Not sure how the salesperson sold the job and why the installer selected the worst place to put the detector, it was wireless, so placement upstairs only meant he had to walk up the stairs to do a much better job.
Jeff

Ken
I thought about something like this happening with all of the failing new Honeywell cells. And I have mentioned it to them a few times also.
They are not addressing this and the only excuses they have are more on the customer/dealer/ or network side. I have told the repeatedly (15 -20 times) that DMP, Alarm.com and Telguard all use Verizon and AT&T just like they do and none of them have this ongoing comm fail problem. They ignore that statement.
            Not sure I want you to post this – just yet.   It is just a comment for now.
Bethann

Home operator discussion- food for thought
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Ken
In response to central station operators working from home. I don't like it, but I can go along with operators that handle calls not related to actual alarm signals working from home. What I can't agree with is a home based operator taking actual alarm signals. I can't imagine that the necessary communications pathways in and out of a residence would be as reliable as those dedicated to a central station location, and if there is an outage, I can't imagine the repair time would be that fast. Since Covid really ramped up the work from home trend I've seen various tech support services and other customer support services take a big hit. I've had operators and tech support personnel answer the phone and it be obvious that I woke them up, and have at times had trouble hearing due to the background noise of children yelling, dogs barking, etc. I think everyone needs to get back in the office.
  Larry
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Ken
As part of the work from home discussion I thought this may be of interest to both you and your readers.
Thanks for your contribution to the industry Ken – kindest regards.
Ivan
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From:
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 12:56
To: Ivan
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