Alarm systems, cameras and monitoring in Ebensburg, PA

Homes and businesses. We quote the equipment, the install, and the monitoring together.

Monitored wireless smoke and heat detectors on an Alarm.com panel are a strong choice for homes and small businesses that are not required to have a fire alarm system. The building code decides when a business must have one. That depends on the building's use, size, and occupant load, under the International Building Code and International Fire Code section 907 and the NFPA 72 installation standard. Pennsylvania enforces these through the Uniform Construction Code. If your building needs a code-compliant system, we quote it and handle the plans, not the online shop. Call and we will tell you which one fits.

A wireless home burglar alarm usually needs no permit. Commercial fire alarm work falls under the building code and needs plans and a permit from the local code office. Some municipalities also require alarm registration or bill for repeat false alarms, and the rules differ from town to town in Cambria County and nearby. We set up verification and testing to keep false alarms down.

Monitored detectors add a call for help when nobody is home. They do not replace the detectors the law requires. In Pennsylvania, requirements come from the construction and property maintenance codes your municipality adopted, and from the carbon monoxide alarm law for homes with fuel-burning appliances. We will design your system to match the rules where your property is.

Monitoring starts with a 5-year initial term. If you cancel during the initial term, a fee of 75% of the remaining monitoring for that term applies. After the initial term, you can cancel any time with no cancellation fee, and you pay monitoring only through your cancel date. Pennsylvania home improvement contracts also come with a three-business-day right to cancel after signing.

Gittings Protective Security is registered with the Pennsylvania Attorney General as a home improvement contractor (PA071548). You can look up any contractor's registration on the Attorney General's website.

You choose your own keypad codes and your Alarm.com app password, and you can change them any time from the app. We do not need your app password to service your system. Your video is stored on your Alarm.com account and only people you add as users can view it. Our monitoring center uses your verbal passcode only to confirm it is really you when an alarm comes in. You can add or remove family members and employees, give each their own code, and see who armed or disarmed the system and when.

Pennsylvania requires everyone in a private conversation to consent before it is recorded. Video of your own property is generally lawful, but never point cameras into bathrooms, bedrooms of guests, or other places where people expect privacy, or onto a neighbor's private areas. Businesses should post a notice and usually keep camera audio off. We can turn audio recording off on any Alarm.com camera.