FAQ - Security Terms Glossary
TNT Security customer support prepared glosary of commonly used terms and frazes. Click on the question that describes your problem and refernce your user manual for details. If you misplaced your user manual - instructions book, you will most likely find one in our PDF section.
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Access Control System
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Access Control System - This system allows your employees to enter your premises and/or specific areas with an access card, controlled either by you or by TNT Security. We also have the newest form of access control by visual picture, finger print and whole hand identification. |
Alarm Dialler Panel
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Alarm Dialler Panel - This box contains the 'brain' of the alarm system. It is usually located beside your electrical powerpoint for a wired system. |
Alarm Maintenance Contract
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Alarm Maintenance Contract - When you sign a contract with an alarm installer to maintain your system on an annual basis. |
Alarm Monitoring
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Alarm Monitoring - The sending of alarm, trouble, and other signals to a remote location such as a Central station. Monitoring Supervision of home security system works by sending alert through a phone connection to 3rd party or to your own mobile/work phone. |
Alarm Screens
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Alarm Screens - These are standard window screens that have a special wire woven in the screening. They are designed to detect someone cutting the screen. |
Back up Battery
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Back up Battery - The alarm system contains back up batteries which keeps it active in the event of an electrical outage for a specified amount of time. Alarm kit battery back should last for a minimum of 6 hours. |
Bypass
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Bypass - The act of temporally disconnecting a part of the system, a bypassed device can not trigger an alarm. |
CCTV
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| CCTV - Closed Circuit Television. A video surveillance system (closed circuit television) that allows you to observe high risk areas and/or sensitive transactions. |
Controlled Zones
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Controlled Zones - Zones that can be turned on or off by an authorized user of the system. Examples of Controlled zones are door contacts and motion detectors. |
Door Contact
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Door Contact - (Door and Window Contact): A normally magnetic switch, which detects if a door or window, is closed or open. |
Dual Detector
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Dual Detector - Any device that uses two different sensing technologies to detect an intrusion. Dual detectors are thought to be less susceptible to false alarms. |
Dual Tech - DTEC
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Dual Tech (DTEC)- Dual Technology - where a single device operates on two different types of technology. Must common use is where a PIR and a Microwave detector is combined into one movement detector. |
Exit Delay
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Exit delay - A predefined period of time that the user has to leave the premises after arming the system. |
Fire Alarm Verification
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Fire alarm verification - A fire zone feature that attempts to minimize false alarms by not signaling an alarm when a smoke detector trips the first time. |
Force Arming
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Force Arming - The act of arming a security system with one or more devices in trouble. When armed in this manner the faulted devices will not detect any intrusion. On some systems if the device that was in trouble returns to its normal state it will become an active device capable of detecting an intrusion. |
Glass Break Sensors
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Glass break Sensors - These sensor devises sense or detect the special sound of breaking window glass. When the sound is detected an alarm is sent to our 24-Hour Local Monitoring Station. The alarm system must be armed. |
Interior zones
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Interior zones - Devices that would be activated by normal movement within the premises. Examples of interior zones are motion detectors or contacts on bedroom doors. |
Keypad
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Keypad - A device used to arm or disarm the system. This is the device that is used to interface with the system. All new alarms systems have entry keypads with illuminated push buttons, LCD, or Touch screen. The arrangement of the buttons is similar to a telephone touch pad for easier operation. TNT Security offer both English read-out display and LED (lighted zone indicators) |
LED
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| LED - Light Emitting Diode. An electronic device that lights up when power is applied. These devices are used as various status indicators. |
Magnetic Contacts
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Magnetic Contacts - These consist of 2 parts, the magnet and the contact. The magnet is placed on the part of the window or door that opens. The contact is placed on the frame and connected into the alarm cable circuit. When the window or door opens and the magnet moves away, it opens the circuit and sends a signal to the alarm control panel. |
Master Code
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Master Code - The operators code for the system that has additional privileges such as being able to delete other user codes. |
Microwave
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Microwave - A motion detector that uses high frequency radio waves to detect motion. Similar to an ultrasonic. |
Motion Detector
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Motion detector - A device designed to detect movement within the premises. Examples of motion detectors are Microwave, Ultrasonic, and PIR. |
Panic Button
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Panic Button - A Device which when pressed causes a full alarm condition regardless of whether or not the alarm system is set/unset. This may be enabled to cause a silent alarm if the system is monitored. The alarm keypad contains a panic button feature on it as standard. Additional panic buttons can be installed if required. |
Partition
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Partition - A zone or group of zones programmed as an area within the premises. For example if you kept your stamp collection in a room, normally not used, you could have all of the detection devices in that room programmed as a partition. In this manner that room will still be protected even when the main house system is disarmed. Also works well for gun cabinets, safes, etc. |
Point of Protection
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Point of Protection - A single detection device such as a door contact or motion detector. Multiple points can be wired to a single zone, such as all rear windows. |
Seismic detector
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Seismic detector - A device designed to detect the vibrations caused when breaking glass, wood or other materials. |
Sensor reset
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Sensor reset - Certain devices, such as smoke detectors, must be manually reset after tripping. This reset process generally involves removing power from the detector for a few seconds. |
Smoke detector
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Smoke detector - A device that detects the presence of smoke. There are 2 basic types of smoke detectors, Ionization and Photoelectric. |
Stress detector
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Stress detector - A device that detects the motion in beams when walking above or near the detector. |
Swinger shunt
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Swinger shunt - An option on some controls which will automatically by pass any zone after a pre-set number of trips, during an armed cycle. Some controls will reactivate the zone if it remains normal for a period of time. |
Ultrasonic detectors
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Ultrasonic detectors - Motion detectors that use high frequency sound waves to detect motion within the area. |
User codes
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| User codes - Codes that are used to arm, disarm, or perform other operations of the system. Some controls have levels of authority which can limit what functions a user can perform. In a partitioned system user codes can also be assigned to the various areas. |
Watch mode
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Watch mode - An arming level that will only activate a sounder at the keypad when a door or window is opened. |
Wireless
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Wireless - A system that uses Radio waves or RF to send intrusion or status signals from detectors to the control. A supervised system also monitors the condition of the transmitter as well as its battery. These systems will alert you if a transmitter fails or its batter starts to get low. An unsupervised system does not monitor the condition of the transmitters or batteries. |
Zone
| FAQ - Security Terms Glossary |
| Zone - A point or group of points in a system. Making each detection device its own zone greatly reduces troubleshooting of problems and false alarms |
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