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LIMITATIONS OF THIS SYSTEM

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THE LIMITATIONS OF THIS ALARM SYSTEM

While this system is an advanced design security system, it does not offer
guaranteed protection against burglary or other emergency. Any alarm system,
whether commercial or residential, is subject to compromise or failure to warn for
a variety of reasons. For example:
• Intruders may gain access through unprotected openings or have the technical
sophistication to bypass an alarm sensor or disconnect an alarm warning
device.
• Intrusion detectors (e.g. passive infrared detectors), smoke detectors, and
many other sensing devices will not work without power. Battery operated
devices will not work without batteries, with dead batteries, or if the batteries
are not put in properly. Devices powered solely by AC will not work if their AC
power supply is cut off for any reason, however briefly.
• Signals sent by wireless transmitters may be blocked or reflected by metal
before they reach the alarm receiver. Even if the signal path has been recently
checked during a weekly test, blockage can occur if a metal object is moved
into the path.
• A user may not be able to reach a panic or emergency button quickly enough.
• While smoke detectors have played a key role in reducing residential fire
deaths in the United States, they may not activate or provide early warning for
a variety of reasons in as many as 35% of all fires, according to data published
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Some of the reasons smoke
detectors used in conjunction with this System may not work are as follows.
Smoke detectors may have been improperly installed and positioned. Smoke
detectors may not sense fires that start where smoke cannot reach the
detectors, such as in chimneys, in walls, or roofs, or on the other side of closed
doors. Smoke detectors also may not sense a fire on another level of a
residence or building. A second floor detector, for example, may not sense a
first floor or basement fire. Moreover, smoke detectors have sensing
limitations. No smoke detector can sense every kind of fire every time. In
general, detectors may not always warn about fires caused by carelessness
and safety hazards like smoking in bed, violent explosions, escaping gas,
improper storage of flammable materials, overloaded electrical circuits,
children playing with matches, or arson. Depending upon the nature of the fire
and/or the locations of the smoke detectors, the detector, even if it operates as
anticipated, may not provide sufficient warning to allow all occupants to escape
in time to prevent injury or death.
• Passive Infrared Motion Detectors can only detect intrusion within the designed
ranges as diagrammed in their installation manual. Passive Infrared Detectors
do not provide volumetric area protection. They do create multiple beams of
protection, and intrusion can only be detected in unobstructed areas covered
by those beams. They cannot detect motion or intrusion that takes place
behind walls, ceilings, floors, closed doors, glass partitions, glass doors, or
windows.
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