It is easy to understand that a security alarm system provides peace of mind when you’re away from your place of business, and is there to meet insurance requirements while minimizing burglary loss. However, it is also a tool to protect your livelihood and that of your employees. Even if you have insurance to cover interruption of business, that won’t help you if your clients get comfortable using your competitor while you are closed due to a robbery or arson. Our security systems can help reduce inventory shrinkage and theft, prevent break-ins, and when you consider what could happen to you or your staff if you stumble into a crime scene and the “bad guys” are still there – you can understand one of the ways it helps ensure employee safety.

A security system should begin with door and window contacts to alarm either before, or at the point of entry. Glass break sensors can also work together with door and window contacts to secure the perimeter. Motion detectors often complete the package and detect an intruder that is a “stay behind,” or who gains access another way.

We also have outdoor security solutions which use beams, outdoor motion detectors, and fence sensors that can detect the presence of an intruder on your property.

Your system can also be integrated with access control, video surveillance and other security solutions.

Touch Screen colour LCD keypads are a perfect way to give you even more control of your system. The benefit of the Alpha Numeric keypad remains, but the touch screen display provides an optimized benefit in a multi-partitioned alarm system. All it takes is a glance to the screen and it will be very clear which partitions are armed or disarmed. They can also be integrated with your camera system and show what is on the other side of your back door before you open it. They can also be web enabled and allow you to look into the site with you’re your PDA, or any other web browser located anywhere in the world.

We use high quality, dual technology motion detectors as a back up to your perimeter security, inside the building. Our high quality detectors determine movement using both microwave and passive Infrared technology. In retail applications, motion detectors can protect your business from “stay behinds” after you’ve left and gone home for the evening. Click here for more detailed information about our motion detectors.

Retail and commercial buildings often have large fixed pane windows. Glass break detectors are the best way to sound the alarm before access is gained into your building.

Monitoring Services

Local Monitoring

Shadow monitors your alarm system right here in the Okanagan. Not at some distant mega station. We can monitor your alarm via telephone, cellular GSM, or the internet. In some cases one method is used to back-up the other, protecting you from things such as cut phone lines, a very legitimate concern in commercial security. By backing up your phone line monitoring with GSM technology you can be assured that your alarm system will function properly even if your phone lines are cut.

Through our monitoring service, we can also provide you with opening and closing reports so you know who is coming and going and when. Fail to close monitoring allows you to set parameters for when your building should be secure and armed, and if it’s not you will be notified.

WCB Person Checks

Person check monitoring is important for employees while working alone. Shadow has developed several customized solutions for this problem. Our solution has often been integrated with a client’s existing security alarm.

Total Connect Services

With Total Connect you can have email, and SMS alerts sent to your cell phone, PDA, or any web enabled device. Images can also be sent when access is granted to certain parts of your business or facility or for any event you wish to be notified of. You can also logon to a secure web server and view your cameras, and control your system. As technology brings the world closer together, the need to feel connected is a reality today. For the ultimate peace of mind, and to

provide you with the critical information you need instantly, more people today are relying on Total Connect, the state-of- the-art communications solutions from Honeywell.

Total Connect lets you take advantage of all of the amazing benefits next-generation digital technology can provide—helping you strengthen bonds, enhance communication and stay connected to your business, property and employees – giving you the protection and peace of mind you deserve.