Due to success with working from home, some organizations want to modify UL 827 to allow for a permanent change that would, in essence, allow remote monitoring during normal nonemergent times.
While Internet providers and even 911 centers experience occasional outages, central stations have become virtually indestructible thanks to strong foundations.
In short, from a technical standpoint, monitoring center operators working from home is not a huge challenge to implement and maintain; it’s all the other rules that make it a challenge.
Without question, the short-term effects of COVID-19 will be difficult to overcome, and the long-term effects will be difficult to foresee. Here are tips for maintaining the status quo.
There will be several new “paradigms” emerging all of which will impact the costs of monitoring. As an industry, we need to consider them very carefully.
The market for personal emergency response monitoring is growing and so are the possibilities. Here’s a handful of use cases you may not have thought of.
Central stations and call centers need to be able to meet the demands of different standards to be able to serve their clients and end users universally and effectively.