Patent ID: 8542115

Claim:
An alarm system comprising: one or more environmental condition detectors located within a secured area of the alarm system; and a wired or wireless network within the secured area that directly interconnects the one or more environmental condition detectors with a local alarm panel of the alarm system, the local alarm panel monitoring the one or more environmental condition detectors for indication of fire, wherein each of the one or more environmental condition detectors further comprises: a detector element that measures a value of a predetermined environmental parameter; an auxiliary reporting system that reports a status of measured values of the corresponding environmental condition detector independent of the monitoring associated with the local alarm panel; a plurality of report message files included within the auxiliary reporting system, each of the plurality of report message files being associated with a predetermined person and including a text message, an Internet address of the predetermined person and a threshold value; a processor that compares the measured value of the parameter with a respective threshold value of each of the plurality of report message files, detects that the measured value of the parameter exceeds one of the respective threshold values and constructs a message to the predetermined person associated with the one of the report message files with the exceeded threshold value; and an Internet protocol network interface that forwards the constructed message to the predetermined person.