Smarter Monitoring
Here at Southern and Northern Monitoring Services, we understand that great customer service levels and reduced waiting times are the top considerations when choosing your Alarm Receiving Centre. Reducing the time that your engineers and customers wait on the phone when responding to high priority alarms provides you with peace of mind that your monitoring centre has their best interest at heart.
How to use our new alarm notification process
This additional layer of monitoring services will capture certain types of information alarms, such as low battery and trouble alarms, and automatically identify them to be dealt with immediately by our smart software.
We will continue to notify your customer in our normal process, cycling through the named key holders and allowing them to select an option to clear the alarm or letting it pass through to the next key holder.
Next Generation Monitoring FAQs
What is Next Generation Monitoring? +
Next Generation Monitoring is the future of the security industry, and SMS are leading the way. It includes digitizing the alarm handling process to drive customer service, using advanced analytics to reduce false alarm activations and introducing machine learning to improve risk management. Next Generation Monitoring is more than just the introduction of a single technology, but is a nuts and bolts monitoring revolution to be smarter, faster and work from anywhere.
Why are we investing in Next Generation Monitoring? +
Southern Monitoring Services and Northern Monitoring Services are committed to providing leading products and services to ensure the security, privacy and resilience of our customers. In a world where risks constantly evolve, security companies need to as well. We are leading the way, and are investing in digitising our whole infrastructure to ensure we provide smarter, faster and from anywhere monitoring.
Which services are being delivered in Next Generation Monitoring? +
There are a range of investments we are making to upgrade our infrastructure including:
- Upgrading our servers …
- Automating our informational alarms to improve consistency
- Developing eServices to improve the way we engage with customers
- Investing advanced analytics and machine learning to better process and predict threats
How will my alarm handling change? +
We are automating informational alerts to drive consistency and improve response times. This means some informational events will have an interactive digital operator or a text message issued to inform customers. This will only be for informational alarms.
How can I find out more? +
We would love to hear your thoughts. Please contact enquiries@southernmonitoring.co.uk for more information
What if I don't want to have this service for my customers? +
Please reach out to your account manager and we will be happy to discuss this with you.
How am I supposed to let my customers know about these changes?+
What alarms are scheduled for upgraded handling? +
We are starting with Fail to Test, Low Battery and Trouble Alarms (i.e. minor disruption to panel operations). These are scheduled to be rolled out during 2020.
Next Generation Monitoring