Fire and Intruder Alarm Monitoring

Fire and Intruder Alarm Monitoring

Monitored intruder systems and remote fire alarms provide your home or business with peace of mind protection against unwanted visitors and disasters. With a Farsight remotely monitored alarm system that is an insurance company and police force approved, you can be assured that there is always an experienced professional ready to respond in the case of an emergency.

Fire and intruder alarm monitoring service

Farsight’s fire and intruder alarm monitoring service is an essential security solution for those looking to protect their property, whether a business or a home, from intruders and the risk of an undetected fire. By investing in quality monitored alarms for your UK location, you can be assured that your home or business is safe and secure around the clock, whether you are there or away. On detection of a risk, we will immediately contact the emergency services and you or your key-holder, allowing a fast reaction to the suspected security issue and reducing the potential for damage or theft.

Commercial properties

It is common practice for commercial properties, such as offices or shops, to securely lock the premises at the end of the working day. To ensure the safety and security of your business after your keyholders have left, you will immediately want to know if someone has attempted unauthorised access to your property or if a fire is causing risk to your location. With a remotely monitored intruder and fire alarm system, any trigger of the alarm will ensure our Farsight operators will contact you, any listed keyholders and the relevant emergency services.

Residential properties

On leaving your house for the day and setting your home alarm you are assured that a Farsight operator is actively monitoring your systems to ensure rapid fire detection and prevent unwanted intruders. Should your home alarm be triggered whilst remote monitoring is activated, Farsight will act quickly to get in contact with:

  • Yourself or nominated managers or individuals
  • The identified keyholder for your property
  • The emergency services relevant to your detected incident

Need a Fire and Intruder Alarm Monitoring quote? Call Farsight on 0845 371 0101 or drop us a line

Fire and intruder Visual verification service

For your added peace of mind that your security is further maximised , we also offer remote monitoring packages that can combine fire and intruder alarms with CCTV images from inside your premises. This together with our CCTV monitoring services can give you the peace of mind that your premises is protected inside and out.

Due to fire and police services in the UK requiring emergencies to be visually verified after an alarm has been triggered, this combination is widely considered as an effective multi-layered security approach, maximising the efficiencies of alarm systems.

Visual verification is becoming increasingly important in ‘what happens next’ once an alarm is triggered. Alarm visual verification combines alarm signalling with CCTV images so Farsight’s Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) can confirm genuine incidents that require a priority response from emergency services, reduce false alarm call-outs and helps to protect your URN status.

Read more about how emergency services respond to alarms

Why choose Farsight’s fire and intruder alarm monitoring service?

Since 1996 Farsight has been a leading, fully accredited Category II Alarm Receiving Centre operating out of our modern, purpose-built ARC which is packed with the latest state-of-the-art technology and highly experienced staff. Check out our response times to see why we are the UK’s No.1 for fire and intruder alarm monitoring.

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96% of Farsight alarms were responded to within 90 seconds

(Industry average is just 75%)

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99.5% of Farsight alarms were responded to within 180 seconds

(Industry average is just 77%)

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The first Alarm receiving centre to become BS9518 complient

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Farsight provide security to 3 of the top 5 retail companies

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Farsight provide security to 16 of the 20 largest car dealership in the UK

Farsight monitor Fire & Intruder Alarms to BS5979 standards and SSAIB standards and offer the following benefits:

  • We answer alarms faster than the industry standard, in fact Farsight responds to 99.5% of alarms in under 180 seconds.
  • We have more operators on shift with an industry ‘leading operator to alarm ratio’ that truly sets us apart.
  • We use cutting-edge technology, our in-house technical team regularly collaborate with our alarm signalling and receiving tech partners to the unequalled technical support excellence that we are renowned for.
  • Our staff are highly trained in reactivity and the identification of risks, all are SIA approved and their experienced is highly valued by our clients.
  • We always provide transparency and reliability, by choosing Farsight you’ll benefit from the Sentinel Plus alarm monitoring system, which acts as a handy guide to immediate tasks for engineers and a management summary for end user customers.
  • Dedicated in-house new connection commissioning team, we make it easy to bring alarm monitoring connections ( see our commissioning process here).

Call Farsight on 0845 371 0101 or contact us here

Farsight’s technology partners

For our fire and intruder alarm monitoring solutions, Farsight uses the powerful Monitor Computer System’s Sentinel Plus monitoring platform supporting a range of leading single and dual path alarm signalling devices. The highly personal service we provide is supported by technical backup from our own in-house personnel and our strategic alliances with market leading suppliers including CSL Dualcom, BT RedCare  and AJAX

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