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21 September 2004 , by Karin Björkin
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New Multicom Home makes life difficult for thieves that burgle houses. Thieves can no longer clip off telephone wires to prevent the burglar alarm reaching the alarm centre. Namely, Multicom Home monitors the alarm transfer the whole way from the alarm installation to the alarm centre. If the alarm transfer is disabled by sabotage or a technical fault, a connecting alarm is activated.

With Multicom Home, the private market and smaller companies will gain access to customized monitored alarm transfer for the first time. The product is intended for customers with high demands when it comes to protection, security and alarm transfer in their houses, properties or in the commercial businesses.

Impossible for thieves to avoid detection

The connection to the alarm centre is often the weakest point in the alarm installation. Many criminals who often clip off telephone lines before they break in know this.  After this, the burglars can enter the property and work in peace and quiet. Sometimes, the alarms have a GSM transmitter as a back-up if the permanent connection is broken, but burglars the burglars have also learnt how to knock these out using a so-called mobile killer that disrupts mobile telephone traffic. Multicom Home effectively clogs this hole in security by continuously monitoring the alarm connection.

Multicom Home uses the GSM/GPRS network and works by having an alarm transmitter send short control messages at regular intervals, which sense that the alarm transfer is working as it should. If the connection is broken or has been manipulated, the alarm goes off. Thus, with Multicom Home, it becomes impossible for a burglar to avoid detection by sabotaging the telephone connection.

- People should have to come home to their home and discover that the burglar alarm has been rendered inoperative by the telephone wires having been clipped off. With Multicom Home we can no offer those living in detached houses and apartments and smaller companies secure protection of the alarm connection, something that raises the level of security appreciably. It has just been too easy for thieves to sabotage the housing alarm by cutting off the telephone wires.  This condition no longer exists, says Bo Blåeldh, Deputy Managing Director and Marketing Director at Multicom Security.

Images on your mobile from your house possible in the future Multicom Home is based on the most modern IP technology and can be expanded in the future with the transfer of such things as images and audio. This will provide the user with the opportunity of looking at interiors from his house or apartment in the mobile telephone window.

To be demonstrated for the first time at Skydd 2001 at exhibition stand A09:10.
Multicom Home will be demonstrated for the first time at the Skydd 2004 Trade Fair that will take place at Älvsjö on 21-24 September. Multicom Security, which can be found at exhibition stand A09:10, will even demonstrate the IP-based alarm transfer products of the future with expanded possibilities for transferring audio and images, as well as the rest of its product range.

A subscription to Multicom Home is estimated to cost a little less than SEK 100/month including VAT. The installation is simple and can be carried out in conjunction with a new installation or as a complement to an existing alarm. Generally speaking, all alarms on the market can be connected to Multicom Home. Most alarm centres are connected to Multicom Security, which has more then 20 years of experience of the monitored transfer of alarms.  Examples of customers are banks, the Swedish Armed Forces, the Police and the Emergency Service.

More information

Bo Blåeldh, marketing director at Multicom Security, 08-685 15 12, 0705-52 09 19, bo.blaeldh@multicomsecurity.se