Patent ID: 8531286

Claim:
A security system for monitoring security within at least one premises, comprising: at least one audio sensor and an alarm panel connected to the audio sensor and each located at the premises that generate alarm report data, wherein the alarm panel transmits the alarm report data through a communications network connected thereto; and at least one alarm receiver located at central station remote from the premises that receives the alarm report data transmitted from the alarm panel through the communications network and comprising a line card that receives the alarm report data and an alarm receiver processor that receives and processes regulated alarm report data in accordance with Underwriter Laboratories 1610 requirements, and further comprising a central station automation system, wherein said line card is operable for receiving non-regulated alarm report data that is not regulated in accordance with Underwriter Laboratories 1610 requirements, said line card comprising a secondary communications channel interfaced to said central station automation system, wherein the line card routes the non-regulated alarm report data to the central station automation system over the secondary communications channel and bypasses the alarm receiver processor.