SIM card:

Depending on the model, the main unit has a maximum of 4 communication channels.

Ethernet

WiFi

Sim 1

Sim 2

You can choose whether you want to use a SIM card. This depends on the following scenarios:

1. What should the system offer? For maximum effectiveness, a SIM card is wise to get because burglary notifications will continue to be received on your smartphone. Even without an Ethernet connection!
   Without a SIM card, you will only receive a message on your smartphone that the Ethernet connection is no longer working.
2. How often is your Ethernet connection at home down? Fortunately, this does not happen that often in the Netherlands.
   But burglars are of course aware of this and will be the first to try to interrupt your network.
   In addition, if there is a power outage due to work or other circumstances, you will not receive notifications without a SIM. -Map.
3. SIM cards can be ordered here:
   
   AJAX Sim Card
   Hikvision Sim Card
   Jablotron Sim Card

The control room

By default, all alarms from your system are received on your own smartphone, and possibly on the smartphones of your friends or family. You take action yourself in response to incoming reports!

If you are unable to respond to burglary reports yourself, and all your contacts are out of reach, it may be interesting to pay monthly for a control room.

A control room responds to almost every report. We say almost, because there are rules attached to when a control room can call the police.

Is a control room interesting for you?

The need for a control room is highly dependent on your profession and self-reliance. As long as someone can respond to any notifications themselves, the need is less and even the response time is delayed. If you receive the notification on your smartphone and you see someone on the camera who does not belong there, you should immediately call the police!

Know what a control room will do if your alarm goes off.

There are different rules about how a control room must respond to an alarm. By default, the owner is always called first.

If the control room does not get a connection with the owner, it is important to know what the control room's response will be. Is nothing done, or are the police called? And does it matter whether only one detector has detected movement, or do several detectors have to go into alarm before a control room can call the police? These are all questions you need to have an answer to before you enter into a long-term contract.

There are often additional conditions linked to the control room subscription in the form of a maintenance contract for your system. The control room does not want to receive unnecessary notifications of system maintenance that needs to be carried out, and therefore a maintenance contract with an installer is often mandatory.

So decide for yourself whether two extra subscriptions, which you are often tied to for 3 years, are worth being called by an emergency room in the event of a burglary.