Which is an alarm system that ties several separate local alarm systems not under its ownership into one location?

Which is an alarm system that ties several separate local alarm systems not under its ownership into one location?

• A. Proprietary
• B. Central Station
• C. Local
• D. Auxiliary

Answer: (B)

Central Station monitoring is defined by a dedicated monitoring facility that receives alarm signals from multiple local systems at different locations. This central station, owned and operated separately from the sites it monitors, acts as a hub, collecting and evaluating alarms from many places and then dispatching the appropriate responders as needed. That setup lets one location oversee and respond to events from several sites that aren’t owned by the central station itself, which is exactly what the question describes. This differs from a proprietary system, which is owned and monitored by the organization at the protected sites; a local system, which only alarms at the site with no monitoring elsewhere; and an auxiliary system, which is categorized differently and not primarily about centralized monitoring of multiple sites.

Central Station monitoring is defined by a dedicated monitoring facility that receives alarm signals from multiple local systems at different locations. This central station, owned and operated separately from the sites it monitors, acts as a hub, collecting and evaluating alarms from many places and then dispatching the appropriate responders as needed. That setup lets one location oversee and respond to events from several sites that aren’t owned by the central station itself, which is exactly what the question describes.

This differs from a proprietary system, which is owned and monitored by the organization at the protected sites; a local system, which only alarms at the site with no monitoring elsewhere; and an auxiliary system, which is categorized differently and not primarily about centralized monitoring of multiple sites.