There’s a detailed tutorial by John Honovich at IP Security Market Info titled “Designing Intrusion Detection / Alarm Monitoring” where he answers fundamental questions and shares understanding of the options and tradeoffs when designing this system such as:
- Cost
- Designing intrustion detection in layers
- Control panel selection
- Control / Input / Output devices needed
- Use of wireless devices
- System monitoring options
If you’re considering using alarm monitoring devices as described in the tutorial and wondering how to integrate them into your IP camera or video server systems, read this post for more details: