Keypad

The keypad is where you interact with your system, arming, disarming, and bypassing zones. Most of our keypads include panic or emergency functions and our Alarm Operations Center is trained to immediately dispatch for these types of alarm.

The keypad is also your way of determining the status of your system. If your system is ‘READY’ you can arm it. If it is not ready or in a trouble state you will need to determine what the trouble is prior to arming your system. Each system is divided into zones - and the best scenario is each device has it's own zone, if you see zone 1 is in trouble and zone 1 is the back door, go to the back door and you may have to shut it or the contact may be damaged. If the door is open once shut the system status should return to ‘READY’. Keypads come in several different display types. LED or Light Emitting Diode is a little round light next to each zone number that is either green-ready or red-trouble/alarm. LCD display is a Liquid Crystal Display; these keypads will have a read out that can say Zone 1 Trouble. The ideal keypad and everyone's favorite is the LCD backlit English display keypad. This keypad will tell you "Bobby's Bedroom Smoke" or "Mudroom door", making it a snap to determine the troubled device without having to remember what Zone 3 is. This also helps our service department find a problem without testing each device in your house.

We locate keypads at your primary entrance, from the garage, in the mudroom, the kitchen door, whichever door you use the most frequently. The front door may be where your guests enter but it might not be where you enter the home. Additional keypads can be installed and we highly recommend the master bedroom. This allows you to arm the system at night from the bedroom and more importantly it allows you to determine where an alarm condition is coming from without traipsing through the house in your pajamas to the garage door keypad.