The Teneha Independent School District in Beckville, TX, was enduring an increase in computer theft and vandalism and wanted it stopped. The sprawling 3-acre elementary and high school campus was the first to be outfitted with an electronic security system. As usual, funds for the school district were tight, so the security system had to not only be affordable, but its monitoring costs were not to exceed a specified (and very low) limit.
Charles Cammack Investigations (C.C.I.) installed a wireless SX-V Special system along with eight Security Pro® 3000 control panels. To save the school the cost of monitoring all nine control panels, C.C.I. designed the system so that the eight GE Security Pro 3000 panels forward their alarm information to a single monitored SX-V Special. C.C.I. was awarded the job after the review of bids that included hardwire proposals from five other companies. All of those bids included costs for monitoring multiple panels, but none of them were able to cut monitoring costs without the prohibitive expense of running conduit to all the buildings on campus from a single monitored hardwire panel.
At additional cost savings to the district, C.C.I. installed the 60-sensor system in three 8-hour days versus the three weeks estimated for a hardwire installation.
