A "Zero False Alarms" policy is critical for reducing total security costs because it completely eliminates the direct and escalating expense of municipal fines. More importantly, it prevents the indirect costs of a de-prioritized police response and "alarm fatigue," ensuring your security investment is effective when a real threat occurs.
We've all heard a commercial alarm blaring and seen everyone ignore it. This is "alarm fatigue," and for a business, it's more than just a nuisance—it's a critical failure of your security system with significant financial consequences. A "Zero False Alarms" policy isn't a mere feature, it is the foundational pillar of any cost-effective and functional security strategy. False alarms directly drain your budget through fines and indirectly destroy the value of your entire security investment by rendering it ineffective in a real emergency. Our false alert filtering and live video monitoring provide this zero false alarm guarantee.
Police resources are stretched thin. To combat the waste of responding to unreliable alarms, virtually every municipality in BC, including Vancouver, Surrey, and Burnaby, has a false alarm reduction program. These programs impose steep and escalating fines for every false dispatch.
A business with a conventional, unreliable alarm system can easily generate several false alarms per year. After one or two warnings, the fines can climb to hundreds of dollars for each incident. It is not uncommon for a business's annual false alarm fines to exceed the entire cost of their monitoring contract, meaning they are paying a premium for a system that doesn't work.
The indirect costs of false alarms are even more damaging than the fines because they destroy the core value of your security system.
The "Cry Wolf" Effect. This is the most critical consequence. After police respond to a few false alarms from your address, your property is flagged in their system as unreliable. When a real break-in occurs, your call for help will be de-prioritized and placed at the bottom of the queue, ensuring the response is far too late to be effective.
Complacency and Alarm Fatigue. When your alarm goes off constantly for no reason, your own staff and business neighbours learn to ignore it. This creates a dangerous environment where a real emergency might be dismissed as "just another false alarm."
We solve this problem completely through our mandatory human verification protocol. Our AI may detect an event, but a trained professional in our Richmond centre always verifies a genuine threat is in progress before we ever contact law enforcement. This simple, critical step is our guarantee to you that you will never pay a false alarm fine, and that when we call for help on your behalf, the police will know it's real.
Each false alarm fine is a fee you pay for your security system's failure. Our Zero False Alarm guarantee is our commitment to effectiveness. It protects your budget, ensures police take your emergencies seriously, and delivers a system that works when it matters most.
Eliminate False Alarm Costs100% Verified Response • No Municipal Fines • Priority Police Dispatch