How Does Your Alarm System Communicate?

The Umbrella Mesh Network How it works

First it’s important to understand how conventional alarm communication works. If your system uses a phone line for communication, it has a single point of entry to your home. Simply cut the line and you cut communication. Any failure in the phone system could also effect communication.

If you use Cellular back-up, it dials out just like a cellular phone so its reliability is limited to the reliability of the cellular network you are on. Both of these methods are relatively slow in communication. Cellular jammers are now in wide-spread use during break-ins which disables this form of communication.

High speed internet has many reliability problems from an alarm communication standpoint including the loss of use during a power failure. With new WiFi jammers on the market, thieves are using all the tools at their disposal to disable your alarm.

Another technology is GSM, it is much quicker than phone or cellular, but uses the same cellular towers for communication and is also vulnerable to jamming.

So for The Umbrella Mesh? Basically your signal is transmitted to one of a number of towers in your area then has multiple connection points from there to our central station. In the event that a tower is down (unlikely as it is battery backed up as well as multiple transmission paths) your security signal will be re-directed over the mesh, relaying from house to house to reach another tower. This all takes place within a couple seconds, creating the most reliable, fastest security communication there is. This Mesh technology creates a network providing 100% reliability. Please contact our office for more information.

The Umbrella Mesh Network Difference

The Umbrella Mesh Network allows its dealers the freedom to choose! Our Authorized independent dealers help you choose the right equipment and monitoring packages to suit your needs. Unlike most dealers programs, your account remains with your servicing dealer. The Umbrella Mesh Network is unique in that we own and maintain our own alarm communication called The Umbrella Mesh Network. This helps keep costs affordable and eliminates the middle man (learn more about The Umbrella Mesh Network).

At the Umbrella Mesh Network we have wide knowledge base of security professionals and a support structure to back that up. All Authorized Dealers can also receive training in Locksmith techniques from our Certified Registered Locksmith (CRL). The first line of defense against burglary is good physical security and most physical security can easily be strengthened at little or no cost to you. Authorized Dealers will usually have a solution for your home, business, apartment, and even temporary housing. Let us help you find a dealer in your area today!