What is the future for the 1345 business in Australia and will the outcome impact rebates? Plus some general advice for installers and bureaus and what to consider before partnering with a monitoring center.

Alarm communicators sit between the alarm panel and the control room and provide an array of services. Suretek's senior hardware engineer points out that while communicators may look the same on the outside they differ in reliability in terms of uptime and alarm delivery.

With the Telstra 2G network shutting down in three weeks, we discuss what options control rooms have in terms of wireless and fixed line redundancy.