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The master control panel is usually mounted onto a wall and
should be placed where it's not easy for burglar to find such as
the basement of your home. Various sensors connect to the
control panel from locations throughout your home. If your
security system is armed and the sensors detect a problem, they
send signals to the control panel. The control panel
automatically dials the central monitoring station, where the
proper authorities (police, fire, ambulance) are notified. Most control panels available in the market
now offer wire and wireless support. This offer flexibility and
allows connection to wireless component when connecting the
component with wire is impossible.
The most important feature
in a control for home alarm use is the maximum number of zones
that the control can support (some panels can support over 100).
Remember that a zone can be a single point of protection, or you
can combine multiple points into a single zone. For example, if
you have 4 windows in your bedroom you could put each window a
separate zone or you could combine the all the windows into 1
zone. Zoning becomes important if you start getting false
alarms. If each window has its own zone, you will know exactly
where the problem is. If you have 6 windows on 1 zone it will
take more time to find the problem.
Additional zones will increases the price, but it may be wise to
take some steps during the installation to enable you to add
zones in the future without major costs. First make sure that
the installer runs separate wires from each device to the
control panel (home run wiring), so that re-wiring to the
devices will not be needed, second get a control which can be
expanded to include the total number of zones you will need in
the future. This way, adding zones is simply a matter of adding
expander boards and re-connecting wires at the control. The
powerful
M1GSYS2 - ELK M1 Gold Security Automation Control Panel
offers a minimum of 16 zones and are
expandable to 208 zones. Other than the strong security feature,
it also offers powerful home automation functionality . This
will come very useful when you want to turn your home into a smarthome.
For someone with basic security system in mind and insist on an
economical panel, the
NAPCO Gemini P816 control panel
 at an economical price of $74.99 is
sufficient. The maximum number of zones is only 16 but what it's
lacking in, it make it up with fire protection.
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