ADT Security System
ADT Security System Monitoring Centers will protect your property, valuables and
more importantly, you and your family. They monitor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
through a network of five linked command centers that are strategically located
throughout the US.
ADT Security Services were originally known as the American District Telegraph company
but now they are known as ADT Fire and Security or simply ADT. The alarm company
is a division of Tyco International who are a major worldwide supplier of electronic
security systems and fire alarm systems offering central monitoring capabilities.
Benefits of Choosing ADT Security and Monitoring
- Intuitive, simple to understand home alarm systems. The remote keychain allows the
arm and disarm of your system with a simple press of the button.
- Rapid alarm response. If a home security is raised with the ADT monitoring center,
they can call local authorities to respond to the emergency at your property.
- Affordable monitoring fees. The low monitoring fees will allow you to enjoy the
peace of mind knowing that your property is being safely supervised by the leading
security monitoring company.
- 24 hour, 7 day a week security monitoring. You are safe in the hands of trained
ADT professionals that will be responding to the emergency, if it happens.
- Many years of experience. With 131 years of experience, no other security company
is best placed to provide the alarm system built from years of experience and expertise.
- Multi level protection. Not only do ADT provide 24 hour alarm monitoring for house
burglaries, they also provide an option to monitor you home for fire/smoke, carbon
monoxide and other home emergencies.
- ADT provides more than six million residential, government and commercial customers
throughout North America making it the largest single provider of electronic security
services.
- ADT offers a wide range of security solutions which include fire detection, intrusion
detection, video monitoring and surveillance, access control electronic article
surveillance, radio frequency identification, integrated systems and health and
elder care monitoring.
- ADT systems are used on more than 80% of the top retailers in the US.
- ADT helps secure 72 and the nation’s mid and large size airports as well as 19 of
the top 30 busiest airports in the US.
- ADT install more than 80 security systems of some sort in each hour. Thats more than
one a minute. In order to do this they have more than 6,000 installers and service
technicians nationwide.
- They provide security to 90% of the Fortune 500 companies as well all federal courthouses
nationwide.
- ADT liaises with around 40,000 law enforcement, fire and medical agencies across
the country.
- They responded to more than 50,000 crimes in progress in 2004.
- ADT has five Customer Monitoring Centers (CMC) which are located throughout the
United States. These are linked to create one virtual nationwide monitoring platform.
- The CMC receive more than 29,000,000 alarm requests per year.
- They handle more than 19,000,000 customer calls every year, so handle 3.3 customer
transactions per second.
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The flexible capability of the five CMC’s allows the re-routing of alarm traffic
if one centre receives excessive traffic or indeed becomes non-operational.