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End of Drought Brings False Alarm Madness!

Posted on by Lane
Lightning, Home Security, False Alarms

Heavy rain and thunderstorms cause false alarms for Florida home security systems.

Here in Orlando, Florida – we’ve been under extreme drought conditions for many months. The old saying April showers bring May flowers hasn’t been true this year. Here we are in the beginning of June and both April and May were dry as a bone. Thankfully, the weather seems to be breaking and mother nature is giving us the rain we desperately need. For the last week, we’ve had heavy rain and thunderstorms almost every day in one part of Central Florida or another. After a ravaging spell of wild fires burning across the state, our landscape desperately needs the rain.

Unfortunately, for local Orlando homeowners the thunder and lightning that has come with these storms is causing home security systems to go on the fritz. Power surges can occur from lightning strikes up to 10 miles from the location of the original strike, according to National Geographic. Even a slight surge can cause your home security system to trigger a false alarm. The alarm system may sound a local siren at home and send a signal to the alarm monitoring central station indicating a break-in when in fact, there is nothing wrong. Often, during severe weather effected alarm systems will send these signals multiple times in a row – a sure sign of a weather induced false alarm.

Your home security system is designed to absorb small surges of power at the transformer, the alarm system’s power supply plug. This plug is meant to absorb as much surge as possible before allowing the power surge to effect your home security system’s main control board or keypad (the heart of your home security system). Sometimes the power supply will burn out and the security system will have to rely on it’s battery power to stay functioning. Certain brands of home security systems, such as those made by DSC will alert you to a problem by indicating a trouble light condition on your alarm keypad. This trouble light can indicate a power failure, a low system backup battery or trouble with your home phone service. DSC home security system keypads not only give you this trouble light indicator on the keypad, they also will beep continuously until this trouble is acknowledged. Remember, as we come into an era where many homeowners utilize internet phone service, your communication source can also be effected by surges or power outages during a storm. If your alarm can’t use it’s communication path (the cellular alarm communicator, internet communicator or telephone line) – the alarm will sound the siren locally but it will not be able to transmit emergency information to the alarm monitoring station.

If your alarm system causes a false alarm during a storm or if your alarm system keypad is indicating a trouble, contact Lane Electronics right away for additional service help. We offer 24 hour emergency support for monitored customers here in Orlando, Florida.

Power surges can also cause unseen damage to your home security system, including causing your door or window transmitters to seize – a trouble often unrecognizable from the keypad. Equipment failures like these may not be discovered until your home security system fails during an actual break-in. If you experience a power surge strong enough to cause other electronics in your house to go on the fritz, it’s a good idea to schedule an inspection on your home security system too – even if your alarm is not indicating a trouble on the keypad. A technician can test your devices and inspect the alarm system’s components for damage. Severe lightning damage to your home security system or other household appliances may be covered by your homeowner’s insurance policy.

For more information about home security systems or for help with technical service on your home alarm system, contact Lane Electronics in Winter Park, Florida for help at 407-299-6070.

 

 

Lane Electronics and Alarm Systems is a licensed and insured Florida alarm contractor offering home security systems in Orlando, Florida, Winderemere, Florida, Kissimmee, Florida, Deltona, Florida and surrounding central Florida cities.

Lane Electronics Provides Business Security Systems

Posted on by Lane
Business Security System Company

Florida Business Security Systems

The best security company for your business will provide you with much more in depth security than companies that specialize in home security systems. It takes someone with a passion for business and an understanding of what makes your business work to properly protect your assets. As Florida’s best business security system provider, Lane Electronics and Alarm Systems is a local – Winter Park, Florida based, family owned and operated business serving your security needs for over 30 years! We are your one stop “connection to protection”!

Our professional security system design team can help you identify possible security threats in your business and close the gaps that allow your hard earned assets to literally fly right out the window. We’re more than just securing your physical assets – we protect you from liability and help increase productivity of your staff as well. Consider adding a security system to your facility, as well as exploring the benefits of a business security camera system, business level access control systems, panic hardware, card access, safe protection, business energy management devices and more.

Lane Electronics and Alarm Systems can design business security systems that cater to your business directly. Consider some of these business security system devices and see if they can benefit your Florida business!

For Florida restaurant security systems:

Temperature Detectors: Monitor the temperature of critical areas including walk in coolers or freezers. The monitoring center will notify you if your freezer reaches a temperature un-safe for storing food. There have been many instances of a walk in cooler or freezer failing outside of normal business hours. As a business owner, losing thousands of dollars worth of food product can be devastating. The sooner you know there’s a potential problem looming, the more quickly you can react.

Security Camera Systems: Security cameras in restaurants can help protect you from frivolous liability suits. Cameras can allow you to remotely view live footage of current front of house and back of house operations to ensure that operations are running in a safe manner. Slip and fall suits are prevalent in restaurants and having the evidence you need to protect your business could save you thousands in the future. Security camera systems also help you to prevent shrinkage from theft or waste. Managers or restaurant owners can see the tracking of inventory as it makes it’s way from the back to front of house. Security cameras can also monitor your cash register operations to prevent accidental or intentional money loss.

Flood Detectors: Restaurant equipment like dishwashers have so many moving parts and hoses that can give way at the most inopportune time.  Flood detectors can quickly notify you in the event of a busted water pipe in your restaurant. Again, the quicker you know – the quicker you can react!

Panic Buttons: Lane Electronics and Alarm Systems can install panic hardware in places including the front of house cash registers, manager’s office and even in your walk in cooler to quickly trigger a police dispatch in the event of an active perpetrator on site.

Safe Alarm Sensors: DMP Security products makes an intuitive sensor for monitoring the position and integrity of your money safe. Sensors can tell you when a safe door is opened or closed, as well as if the safe moves or if the safe is under physical attack. The security alarm system can trigger local sirens and notify the monitoring center to dispatch the police department for a fast response.

Access Control: Consider adding a single door strike or door controller maglock to your key personnel doors to allow after hours access for deliveries or cleaning crews. Not giving a key to your business to third parties allows you to control the hours and authority level of access on a per user basis.

Security System Monitoring: Of course, business owners know that having a business security system that monitors your business for intruders is important! Having a monitored security system can save you money on insurance and protect your physical assets even when your business is closed.

Remote Smart Phone Control: Get notified when your employees open the restaurant and when the restaurant is closed at the end of the day. Our state of the art smart phone application can keep records of every time the business security system has been armed or disarmed as well as keep record of important sensor activity.

Many of these business security system features can be cross beneficial to businesses of all specialties. In future blog posts we will describe more in detail how our security systems can help your retail business, your warehouse business, self storage businesses, professional offices, medical facilities and more!

For expert advice and free design services for your Florida business security system, contact the professionals at Lane Electronics and Alarm Systems at 407-299-6070

Lane Electronics and Alarm Systems is a Florida Security System Company based in Winter Park, Florida – serving Orlando, Florida and surrounding Central Florida communities.