Keep your Oak Park home safe with ADT

            Oak Park, Illinois, has an illustrious past as the birthplace of novelist Ernest Hemingway and home to architect Frank Lloyd Wright, but today’s residents are just as important to ADT. ADT Home Monitoring Security Systems wants to help you keep your home and family as safe and secure as any historic landmark.

Why you should chose ADT

            ADT has a wealth of experience. Starting out as a telegraph company in 1874, ADT has grown and developed into the #1 home security provider in the country. Now, ADT has more than 6 million customers and responds to thousands of crimes in progress each year. It also has expanded its customer base to federal and commercial buildings. In fact, ADT helps protect:

• All of the federal courthouses across the country
• 72 of the nation’s mid- to large-size airports, in addition to 19 of the 30 busiest airports
• 50 percent of the most prominent regional and nation banks in the U.S.
• 80 percent of the world’s largest retailers that are located in the United States
• 450 of the Fortune 500 companies

In order to maintain the customer service that ADT strives to give each of its subscribers, it has expanded its monitoring centers to nine, all strategically placed around the United States and Canada. With nine monitoring centers, ADT can make sure that if one center is inundated with alarms or goes offline then another center will immediately pick up alarms and calls. ADT is also in constant contact with about 38,000 law enforcement, medical and fire agencies across the country.

How it works

ADT’s system is extremely easy. In fact, it’s only three steps:

1. ADT uses electricity and a landline to receive signals from your security system. Signals will only be sent in the case of an emergency.
2. If a signal is sent, a certified ADT agent will contact you immediately. He or she will then ask for a pre-determined security code. If the code is incorrectly answered, or if the phone is not answered, then the agent will contact the Oak Park authorities.
3. The authorities will then go directly to your house as quickly as possible to help you with the emergency situation.

The monitoring centers respond to more than 29 million alarms each year. That’s about 93,000 alarms daily, 200,000 inbound and outbound calls daily, 8,000 customer contacts an hour, and 3.3 customer transactions a second. More importantly, ADT is open all day, every day, all year around so you can rest easy knowing that ADT will always be there for you in the case of an emergency situation.

Why a wireless system is better

            An ADT monitored wireless system is the best choice on the market. This system comes with three points of protection for your exterior windows and doors, an infrared motion detector and a high-decibel alarm siren, just to name a few. ADT knows that this is an important decision for you to make, and wants to keep you as informed as possible. Therefore, ADT also sends someone to install the system for you as well as walk you through how to work your new security system and answer all your questions.

The upgrades will blow you away

            In addition to all of the great technology and services that come standard with an ADT system, you can choose various upgrades. These include:

• Two-way voice: Two way voice is a hands-free way to talk to your ADT agent. This is a great piece of technology to have installed. If you’re home by yourself and have fallen, or can’t get to the control panel for whatever reason, you can talk directly to ADT through your control panel. The microphone on the digital keypad is so sensitive that it can even pick up on normal talking voices from up to 75 feet away.
• CellGuard®: ADT uses electricity and landlines to send signals to its monitoring centers. But what if you don’t have a landline? CellGuard® is a simple little device that your technician can install onto the back of your control panel that allows signals to be sent to cell towers instead of through telephone lines. This is the best way to use ADT if you don’t have time for landlines in this fast-paced digital age.

So call a representative today to give yourself peace of mind and help keep the important people in your life safe and secure.