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Cameras and access control usually get the most attention, but this month we’re spotlighting another critical building system: life safety. In this issue, you’ll find a smart, cost-saving upgrade for your commercial fire panels, a recap of recent blog posts, and a new field tech highlight. You’ll also get some more insights from an ASI team member and see feedback from facilities like yours.
November Highlight: Smarter Life Safety with the ADC-FC100
Commercial fire systems are the one technology in your building you hope you never have to use, but they are also the most strictly regulated. If your facility still uses traditional copper phone lines (POTS) to connect your fire panel to a monitoring center, you’re likely dealing with higher telecom bills and less reliable connections.
That’s why we’re helping many of our commercial partners switch to the Alarm.com ADC-FC100 Fire Communicator as the year wraps up.
This device connects your fire panel directly to secure cellular networks instead of old phone lines. We recommend these because they solve a major operational headache for facility managers:
Eliminates Costly Phone Lines: You can eliminate those expensive, dedicated copper lines. In many cases, the savings on your telecom bill pay for the communicator upgrade within a few months.
Commercial-Grade Reliability: The device uses dual-path cellular signaling. If one network goes down, the system quickly switches to another so emergency dispatch is never delayed.
Total Ecosystem Visibility: It connects to the same Alarm.com dashboard you use for cameras and door locks and gives you real-time updates on your life safety system’s health and status.
If you still have some Q4 budget left, upgrading your fire communicator is one of the smartest and most cost-effective choices you can make as you move into 2027.
Interested in getting one for your business? Fill out the form below!
- Take a look at some of our October Blogs! -
Behind the desk - Josh Ridenour
Behind the Desk is a series where we ask our employees what they do, share tips, and get their best security advice. That way, you can see what their days are like and get to know the people behind ASI!
This month we sat down with Josh and asked him a few questions!
What’s your absolute favorite part about outfitting a commercial facility with a new system, and what keeps you motivated when you're out in the field?
“My absolute favorite part is taking a chaotic, outdated legacy setup and transforming it into a clean, modern, and unified security ecosystem. There is an immense sense of satisfaction when you finish neatly dressing cables in the server room, mounting the main DSC PowerSeries Neo panel, and bringing a complex business facility online. What keeps me motivated out in the field is knowing our work directly impacts people's livelihoods. When a business owner or facility manager looks at the Alarm.com interface for the first time and realizes they have total control over their perimeter from their phone, their relief is completely worth the long hours on a ladder.”
With physical security tech evolving so fast, what new commercial hardware or software feature are you most excited to get your hands on this year?
“I am incredibly excited to work more with the new Alarm.com Commercial Fire Communicator solutions. For years, intrusion detection, access control, and commercial video have been easily integrated into a single cloud dashboard, while fire panels typically had to remain completely siloed on legacy lines. Bridging new or existing commercial fire control panels into the same unified Alarm.com for Business ecosystem using dual-path signaling is a massive game-changer. It lets us offer our commercial clients absolute, central-station visibility over their entire life-safety infrastructure.”
Some great insights from Josh for this November!
What are our techs up to? -
Our technicians have been hard at work to ensure your facilities have the best available tools. Here’s a quick update on the latest hardware and system installations they’ve done!
Here is a video of our tech, Chris, installing an ADC-V730 at the Lewsville Fire Department!
Here is a time-lapse of our tech, Malik, prepping the wire for an ADC prism camera! We love seeing this process in action and getting the final result!
Here, Chris is wiring a door controller that connects directly to this business's access control system.
The door controller sits between the card reader, the door lock, and your main security system, keeping everything connected!
A word from our customers-
We want to thank our customers for their reviews! Below are just a few! If you’d like to leave a review yourself, go HERE.
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