Patent ID: 8207845

Claim:
A method of processing an alarm at a premises, the method comprising: sensing said alarm at a premises; signalling said alarm from said premises to a monitoring center using a first network interface under control of a processor; from the monitoring center, and in response to said signalling, initiating a cellular network call to a cellular network address identifying an audio station to network interface at the premises, said audio station to network interface comprising a second network interface, a radio, and control logic which operates independently of said processor; using said control logic and said radio to establish a radio channel from said audio station to network interface to a selected one of a plurality of audio stations at the premises, said selected one of said plurality of audio stations comprising at least one of a speaker and a microphone, and a radio interface; and using said control logic to bridge said radio channel to said cellular network call to establish an audio channel from said selected one of said plurality of audio stations to said monitoring center.