Our security systems give you peace of mind, while being fully integrated with your automation system. 

We install industry standard, UL listed panels.  These panels can be used with or without a monitoring company.  If you decide to have your system monitored, they support several standard monitoring protocols, allowing you to choose your monitoring company.  You no longer need to be tied to one company's monitoring service and forced to pay whatever they charge.  There are monitoring packages starting as low as $8.95 per month.

Some benefits of integrating security and automation are:

• Lights inside and/or outside the house can be turned on and/or flashed in the event of an alarm.  Lights deter prowlers and flashing lights help attract attention to your home from neighbors and the authorities.
• Arming the system to NIGHT mode can automatically get the entire house ready for bed time.  For example:
  • all lights off in basement and first floor
  • check if garage doors are closed and notify you if they are not
  • turn off power to various audio/video devices that may be on, such as a whole-house audio system or TV
• While in NIGHT mode, the indoor motion detectors can be used for automation purposes, such as turning on lights to a dimmed level in the kitchen if someone gets up in the middle of the night for a glass of juice.
• While armed to AWAY mode the system can give your house a lived-in look by turning on and off various lights once it is after sunset.  This pattern can be varied randomly from day to day so that someone watching the house will never see the same pattern of lighting.
• The security system can call your pager or cell phone, in addition to calling the monitoring company if needed, for any event that occurs. 
• You can call your system from any phone while away from home and check on the status of the security system, see if the garage doors are closed, close them if they are open, and to arm or disarm the system. 

Mar 2006 - Lighting control article in Builder/Architect magazine (Vol 16 #1)

Jan 2006 - CAT is now an AMX dealer!