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How can Sonitrol help you?
Sonitrol offers fully integrated commercial security solutions to meet any need. Our solutions include verified intrusion alarms, access control, CCTV, monitored video surveillance, and fire detection. We provide our customers with best-of-breed technology backed by our unparalleled Commitment to Service, which covers performance, product satisfaction, service, and false alarm guarantees.
Our difference makes all the difference….Sonitrol has the highest rate of apprehensions and the lowest rate of false alarm dispatches in the industry. The numbers speak for themselves:
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160,000: Sonitrol-assisted apprehensions
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125,000: Customer sites monitored
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90 minutes: Sonitrol initiates one arrest every 90 minutes
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13 years: The average number of years our customers stay with Sonitrol
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7 minutes: Average police response time to a Sonitrol verified alarms
Sonitrol’s integrated suite of solutions include:
Verified Audio Detection
• Audio sensors are strategically placed to detect the sound of a break-in
• Activation of a hold-up button transmits live audio to Sonitrol’s Central Station
providing real-time information to responding authorities
• Assisted the police in apprehending criminals, over 160,000 and climbing
• Significantly reduces false alarms
Access Control
• Protect your assets by limiting unauthorized access to sensitive areas
• Provides detailed audit trail of facility entries and exits by card holder name,
date, time, door, etc.
• Reduces the need for on-site security personnel
• Eliminates the expense of re-keying or changing locks
• Remotely arm/disarm, add/delete users, or change permission levels with mySonitrol.com
Video Surveillance
• Allows Sonitrol operators to see and verify that an actual threat exists before
the dispatch of the police
• Connect to the facility and access live video activities from a web browser
through mySonitrol.com
• Receive archived video or video clips via e-mail from Sonitrol’s Monitoring Center
Fire Detection
• Monitor smoke and heat detectors, sprinkler monitoring devices, and pull
stations from Sonitrol’s monitoring station
• Ensures that fire fighters will be dispatched promptly when an alarm
signal is received
• Reduce the likelihood of workplace injuries, property damage, and
expensive business interruption
History of Sonitrol: A heritage of technical innovation
The company known today for detecting burglars had its roots in pest control of a different sort in the late 1950s.
Robert Baxter, of Anderson, Indiana, installed microphones within the walls of a building to listen for termites and pinpoint their location. Baxter invented other sound-related devices, too. On June 16, 1960, he incorporated “Sonitrol”, from the words sound and control, to manufacture and market his innovations.
Law enforcement legacy
In 1963, Baxter met Al Cronk, a local police officer who owned an alarm company. Cronk was frustrated with systems that seemed to let the perpetrators get away. He hired Baxter, the inventor, to develop new ideas for the alarm company. Baxter responded with the audio sensor, and Sonitrol was born as a security company.
Success spreads
Today, Sonitrol provides tailored local service in over 180 cities throughout the United States and Canada. As a division of Stanley CSS, Sonitrol is part of the second largest commercial security company in North America—and the leader in verified electronic security. 160,000 apprehensions and counting... |
