Remote Alarm System
Remote Alarm System
Remote Alarm System
FEATURE
ARTICLE
Tom Petruzzellis
A Remote Alarm
Reporting System
If you want to be updated on events that
your home security
system notices, then
the remote event/
alarm reporting system that Tom designed is just what
youre looking (er, listening) for. The next
time your cell phone
rings, you might want
to take the call because it just might be
your security system.
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f youre going
to have a homecontrol system, it
helps to have a convenient medium for checking
the data the system gathers. In Octobers issue of Circuit Cellar, Bruce
Winter designed a response system that
broadcasts information over a home
audio system. In Novembers issue of
Circuit Cellar, Mike Baptistes Embedded Living column will explain how he
designed a TV module that enables him
to view information from his homecontrol system on his television screen.
If youre not sure about a talking
house or dont want to be interrupted
while watching your favorite shows,
you might be interested in a multichannel microprocessor-controlled remote
event/alarm reporting system that can
contact you via cellular phone, numeric
pager, or computer. Designed to monitor up to eight different alarm or event
conditions from various types of sensors
and report the particular channel that
was activated, the Tele-Alert can be
configured to monitor voltage levels,
temperature changes, movement, windows, doors, safes, and perimeters, as
well as computer equipment.
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CUSTOMIZING YOUR
TELE-ALERT SYSTEM
The Tele-Alert system can be used in
a number of different alarm configurations such as monitoring safes, doors,
windows, floor mats, computers, movement, temperature and voltage changes,
as well as smoke and fire sensors. The
system can even monitor existing local
alarms by using the Tele-Alert as a
multichannel dialer. With the motion
module you can protect a vacation
house or cabin using the existing phone
line. You can even monitor an overheating computer or UPS failure. With
a little imagination, you can implement
the system in almost any alarm configuration from multi-zoned alarm systems
to simple multi-event annunciator. The
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SOURCE
Tele-Alert kit
Teledata Products
c/o T. Petruzzellis
340 Torrance Ave
Vestal, NY 13850
www.hi-techstuff.com
PIC16C57
Microchip Technology, Inc.
(888) 628-6247
(480) 786-7200
Fax: (480) 899-9210
www.microchip.com
Basic Stamp II
Parallax, Inc.
(916) 624-8003/8333
Fax: (916) 624-8003
www.parallaxinc.com
SOFTWARE
The Cell.BS2 and Page.BS2 programs, as well as a parts list for the
Tele-Alert kit, are available for
download on the Circuit Cellar web
site.
Circuit Cellar, the Magazine for Computer Applications. Reprinted by permission. For subscription
information, call (860) 875-2199 or
[email protected].
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