ADRWire's Dylan here with Alarm Grid.
Today, we're going over wholesale alarm monitoring.
Essentially what this is-- it's when
a customer has multiple locations
under the same monitoring account.
Now this could be residential, this could be--
more than likely, businesses.
Usually small businesses.
But pretty much the whole idea is
that with either Total Connect or Alarm.com,
you can have multiple locations set up under one account.
So, for example, Total Connect.
We have customers-- not to name names, of course--
but I have a couple businesses set up nationally.
Small businesses across the United States.
And to manage all those locations,
we have them all under one Total Connect account.
So that customer, if he wants, he
can log into his Total Connect.
He can go to his locations tab and view the amount
of locations that he has there.
Total Connect allows over 20 some odd locations to be added.
I'm not sure of the exact number.
We do have more information on that
on our website, alarmgrid.com.
But it's definitely well over 20.
I'm sure about that.
But pretty much with that, the locations are set up very easy.
You'll go into locations tab-- if you ever use Total Connect,
you would see that on there.
You can scroll through each location,
edit the options at the master code.
You can view notifications for each location, set those up.
Set up users, user codes, user accounts, so on and so forth.
And, of course, remotely arm and disarm each location.
Now, the plus side of this is that you
don't have to remember a login for each different location.
You have one login.
And the most you have to do is just remember what location
you want to work on.
Very easy, especially if--
like I mentioned for small businesses,
each location could just be the business name and the city
that it's in.
So very easy to go through.
Now, residential systems will have this as well.
It is an option to do multiple locations
under one Total Connect account, as well as alarm.com.
Obviously, that kind of differs because not many people
are going to have such a high amount of houses
that they're going to want to monitor.
There are those cases, obviously.
Usually, what we've seen is small businesses
do this the most.
Now, depending on your alarm company,
sometimes they will have a different way
of how they want you to set up these locations.
Some can offer referral bonuses basically
as incentive for each location.
Some-- if you are working with an installer,
would have someone go out on site.
For DIY companies, such as us, for an example,
we have a customer who has the businesses across the United
States, as mentioned.
He'll basically have installers at each location.
So when the location is set up, the activation call
is scheduled.
He has someone on site, he's kind
of our main point of contact.
We go through him, contact them, and then get
those systems set up.
Now, that customer-- he has the ease of access
of just going through all those locations on his Total Connect
account.
Very easy to see them.
They're all listed in a very easy to read locations list,
and as mentioned, the names on it help a lot.
For alarm.com, it's very similar as well.
You can have multiple locations, multiple accounts
set up under one user login.
View the locations, remotely arm and disarm,
set up notifications.
Very easy, very similar to how it is with Total Connect.
Now, a big plus for this, as mentioned,
is that you're not remembering different logins.
But another big plus is that no matter what happens,
you know that you're going to get notifications
for each location.
You don't have to consistently worry and check
in on each location.
If they're all under the same Total Connect account,
if location Z has an alarm, you're getting an alert.
If location B has an alarm, you're going an alert.
It doesn't really matter if you're looking at it or not.
They're all going to come through,
depending on how you have set up the notifications, as well.
You can set up permissions for each location.
You can set up users for each location.
You can have one user be a master user for a location
while they're only a simple secondary user for another.
It's all up to you.
For more information about monitoring,
be it either small--
just a couple of houses--
or larger scale-- small businesses, multiple locations
on Total Connect, feel free to check out
our website www.alarmgrid.com.
We do have monitoring plans on there
as well, if you're interested.
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