Patent ID: 7542721

Claim:
A system for reporting alarm events from an alarm control panel that monitors alarm events to a remote monitoring center, comprising: an interface that receives signals from the alarm control panel and selectively relays the signals to the remote monitoring center by either: i) a wireless path, or ii) a landline path via a landline connector; wherein the interface is configured to select the wireless path without regard to whether the landline path is in an abnormal condition solely in response to the wireless device being associated with the interface via a wireless communications medium, otherwise, the interface is configured to select the landline path; and, wherein the interface includes a BLUETOOTH gateway comprising: a BLUETOOTH interface that controls the transmission of signals between the alarm control panel and the wireless device; an alarm panel agent that communicates information between the alarm control panel and the wireless device; a communication port for receiving signals from the alarm control panel; a network connector connected to a PSTN network; and an analog-to-digital (A/D) signal processor that converts analog signals to digital signals.