Alarm panel and zones, contacts on every opening, motion and glass-break sensors, cameras, siren and floodlight, smoke, CO and leak, smart locks, presence simulation and a monitoring station. Drawn with the intercom in one house.
Alarm panel
Arms away when the last phone leaves, home at bedtime, off when the first phone is back
Entry delay only at the front door; anything else is instant
Panic · SOS
One press calls the monitoring station and both phones
Silent option for duress: looks disarmed, station still called
Presence simulation
While you are away the rooms light up in your usual evening pattern
Random five-minute drift so it never looks like a timer
Monitoring station
Every alarm is checked on camera before the keyholder and police are called
Monthly line test, battery and signal reports to your phone
Door + window contacts
An opening left open when you arm is flagged and bypassed, not ignored
Open while armed = instant alarm, except the front door with its delay
Motion sensors
Pet-immune motion in every room while armed
Night light on the landing from the bedroom sensor, no alarm
Glass-break sensor
The pool house glass is an instant alarm, no entry delay
Tested every month by the panel, result on your phone
Cameras
Clips on motion only while nobody is home; privacy mode when you are in
Package detection at the front, fox at the back, car on the drive
Siren + strobe
Outdoor siren and strobe for ten minutes, inside sounders too
Chirp on arm, nothing on disarm; silent test every quarter
Smoke + CO
Linked: every sounder, every light on, doors unlocked, station called
CO at 50 ppm: hob off, extractor on, alert to your phone
Leak hub + valve
Sensors under the kitchen sink, the basin and in the pool house plant room
Leak = main valve closed in seconds, alert, plumber booked from the card
Smart locks
Auto-lock three minutes after the door closes
Gardener and cleaner get their own time windows, log on the tablet
Floodlight
Dusk to dawn at 10%, 100% on motion for a minute
Stays off while you are in the garden at night by choice
Your phones · geofence
Two phones make the geofence: last out arms, first back disarms
Rings when nobody picks up inside within 10 s, or when the house is empty; answer, open the gate, get alarm alerts