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This is intriguing but how would you handle a power outage, or an Internet outage, or WiFI just randomly flaking out? How does the ADT system work? Some kind

• byoung2 16y ago
  Obviously I haven't figured out all the kinks, since I only gave it 5 minutes thought, but you're right, whoever does this will have to plan for all of those occurrences. My parents have an ADT system, and it just uses the regular phone line to dial in to the monitoring center. The rub was that my parents didn't have a regular phone line, they had Time Warner Digital Phone service. So everytime there was a hiccup in the digital connection, the alarm assumed someone had cut the hardline, and it dialed in when service came back up. That resulted in a phone call to confirm everything was all right. They ended up switching back to regular phone service just for the alarm. I think for the younger generation, alarms with phone line connections won't work anyway. Over half of my friends/coworkers don't have a landline phone. But they all have smartphones and broadband. Companies will have to find a way to have a reliable system that works with broadband.