Burglars have many tactics for entering homes, and not all of them are stealthy. In fact, many of them take advantage of weaknesses in certain security systems to deny your system even the chance to send off a signal. Don’t find out that your security company left your home vulnerable to somebody simply disabling your system before it had a chance to notify the authorities.
What is Crash and Smash?
Many consumers are misinformed that the monitoring station will be aware that something is wrong with the security system. The reality is that a security system has to send a signal to notify a monitoring station and create a response. In order to give the homeowner time to disable the system, there is usually a 30 to 60-second delay between a system arming and it sending an alert to the monitoring station. For many simpler security systems, if a burglar destroys or disconnects the system before this timer is up, it will not send a notification. The system is the pitcher and the monitoring facility is the catcher, so if a bad guy takes out the pitcher before he can throw, what happens? In most cases with most basic security systems, nothing happens.
Safeguard 1: Crash and Smash Protection
Powered by Alarm.com’s patented technology, Crash and Smash Protection ensures that your security system still signals for help, even if it can’t send the signal itself. That’s thanks to our cloud security technology.
When your security system starts its countdown, our platform knows to anticipate either a ‘disarm’ or ‘alarm’ event. Should your panel suddenly go offline during the countdown, however, the platform treats it as a third type of event—a suspected crash and smash attack—and quickly signals for help.
Because this action takes place on Alarm.com’s secure cloud infrastructure, it doesn’t matter how effectively the intruder smashes your security panel.
Safeguard 2: Professional Security Monitoring
On receiving a crash and smash alert, a trained security professional at your home’s monitoring station assesses the situation, and can quickly alert your local police department to dispatch help to your home.
You’ll get a smartphone alert too, to make you aware of what’s going on. The burglar, however, will be none the wiser until the police arrive.
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