Compare our Alarm
Monitoring Services to Other Central Stations
| Service | Central One | Competition |
| Free voice 800 line that you can take over if you ever move your accounts. | Yes (answered in your name if you have 300 accounts or more) | ? |
| "Business friendly" central station operators with customer service training that know how to make you look good. | Yes | ? |
| Free after hours answering service using live operators. | Yes for dealers with more than 300 accounts | ? |
| Comprehensive daily reports on activity and exceptions delivered by web, email or fax. | Yes | not in two concise, easy to read reports |
| Your own 800 or local receiver line that you can take over if you ever move your accounts. | Yes | ? |
| Touch tone telephone interface for technicians to test accounts and verify signals were received. | Yes | maybe but not always user friendly |
| Access your customer information and alarm history from your internet enabled cell phone whether Nextel, Blackberry, Nokia or any other popular make and model. | Yes | ? |
| Access all customer and company information and history via internet in real time and make real time changes to any customer account? | Yes, just like you were sitting at a computer inside the central station. | ? |
| Customers may access account information and alarm history via internet and test their system without operator assistance. | Yes | ? |
| Any or all signals text messaged to cell phones or emailed to any address (customer or dealer) instantly when received. | Yes | ? |
| Create new accounts and put them on line via internet 24 hours, seven days for immediate monitoring. | Yes | ? |
| SIA certified central station operators. | Yes | ? |
| Supervisors available 24 hours, 7 days who can make decisions and get things done. | Yes | Beware of central stations that merely have senior operators with very limited authority. |
| Special formats such as Uplink, AlarmNet, ITI, two-way voice, internet monitoring, video alarm verification and video monitoring. | Yes | ? |
| Caller ID on every digital alarm signal that appears in the history and is available via internet access. | Yes | ? |
| XML web service technology that lets you integrate impressive central station features into your own web site on a remote server. | Yes | ? |
| Underwriters Laboratories listed for fire and burglary. | Yes | ? |
| Low prices with no hidden charges. | Yes, Central One is dedicated to charging only for the services that you can bill to your customers. | ? |
| Discounts on alarm equipment from leading distributors nation wide. | Yes | ? |
| Close cooperation with a variety of dealer funding companies offering you freedom of choice. | Yes | ? |
| Redundancy in computers, phone lines, and power generation. | Yes | Probably but don't forget to ask. |
| Proprietary software with in house programmers that can implement the features you need quickly, effectively and without additional cost to you. | Yes | ? |