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Frequently Asked Questions

What is an Armed State?

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Typically alarms can be set to one of three States depending on whether the property is occupied or not:

  1. Home/Stay: used when the property is occupied to monitor sensors around the outside or the perimeter of the property. Very useful at night so people can move around inside the property without setting the alarm off
  2. Full/Away: the alarm is fully set and all zones/sensors are active
  3. Disarm: the alarm is fully disarmed and will not activate except for 24hrs and SOS Zone Types
 

What is a Zone?

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All alarm systems have a number of wireless or wired zones that are used to group sensors together. Typically a Zone would relate to an area in your property, or if there is only one sensor on a zone, then to the position of the sensor. Different types of sensors can usually exist on the same zone, although sensors such as smoke detectors and emergency buttons would go on a special zone so they will activate regardless of whether the alarm is set or not.
 

What is a Zone State?

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This is very similar to an Armed State except that a Zone State gives an extra level of flexibility in allowing all sensors on a zone to respond differently. This can be very useful if you want to exclude a whole Zone when the Armed State is set to Home. These are typically either:

  1. Home/Stay - when the alarmed is Armed in a Home state sensors in this zone will not trigger the alarm
  2. Away/Full - when the alarm is Armed in a Full state sensors in this zone will trigger the alarm if activated
 

What is a Zone Type (Attribute)?

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Every zone has a Type to indicate how it will respond when a sensor linked to the zone is activated. Depending on the system, zones can be assigned a type or it is predetermined.

Typical Zone Types are:

  1. Normal - if a sensor on this type of zone is activated the alarm will trigger
  2. Delay - there will be a delay before the alarm is triggered
  3. 24hrs - regardless of the Zone State or Armed State sensors on this type of zone will always alarm. This is usually reserved for Smoke or Gas Detectors
  4. Bypass - used to temporarily omit a zone from the system. Sensors in this zone type will not trigger the alarm regardless of its Armed State
  5. Watch - sensors in this zone type will trigger the alarm if they are not activated within a predetermined time period. This feature is commonly found in personal medical alarms so that carers know that the property owner has got out of bed or has been into the living room by a certain time.
  6. SOS - usually reserved for emergency (panic) buttons and is a feature commonly found on personal medical alarms so that home owners can press a button to alert a carer of a fall or of an intruder.