Proactive Exterior Video Security for your Business

by David Erickson

December 25, 2025

Key Takeaways

False Alarms are a Major Financial and Logistical Burden: Between 94-98% of all dispatched alarms are false. This leads to the proliferation of false alarm ordinances across North America, which impose significant fines and fees on alarm companies and their customers, driving up operating costs and threatening customer retention.
Video Verification is the Required Solution: Verifying an alarm event with video is the only effective way to significantly reduce false alarms and meet the increasingly strict requirements of local false alarm ordinances. It eliminates the need for expensive security patrols or key holders to physically verify an event.
CHeKT Standardizes Video Verification for Central Stations: CHeKT’s Video Alarm Communicator (V-Com) provides a standardized, rapid method for delivering live video and alarm event clips to the central station operator. This ensures consistency across various camera brands and enables operators to quickly confirm if an alarm is a genuine crime in progress.
Benefits Extend Beyond Fines: Implementing video verification provides four major benefits: eliminating fines and fees, increasing customer satisfaction and retention (by avoiding fines and providing a faster response), saving law enforcement time, and ensuring faster police response to actual verified emergencies.

Proactive Exterior Video Security for your Business

As a business owner, protecting your business is crucial for its success. Unfortunately, crime and theft have become major issues many businesses face today. In many cities, businesses are closing their doors due to these problems. But, CHeKT proactive exterior video security can help.

Leveraging CHeKT’s Proactive Visual Security platform can help you prevent these incidents from happening and safeguard your business’s property and assets.

CHeKT offers a powerful video security system that can monitor your business’s exterior cameras in real-time, providing instant alerts if any suspicious activity is detected. With CHeKT, you can proactively deter crime before it happens, giving you the peace of mind that your business is protected.

*Actual side by side view of video footage*

What are the benefits of using CHeKT for exterior video security?

For starters, CHeKT’s active deterrent measures of automated audible announcements, lighting, and sirens in real-time of suspicious activity provide an immediate first line of security defense. Real-time alerting to the command center with live monitoring capabilities means 24-hour operators can initiate live audible warnings and immediately dispatch security before a break-in occurs. With live video monitoring and visual situational awareness, you can catch criminals in the act, increasing the chances of apprehending them and preventing future crime.

Perhaps the most significant advantage of using CHeKT for exterior video security is the protection it provides for your business’s future. With so many businesses closing due to crime and theft, it’s more critical than ever to take proactive measures to protect your livelihood. By investing in a robust security system like CHeKT, you can demonstrate to your customers and employees that you take their safety seriously, which can help build trust and loyalty.

Investing in CHeKT’s exterior video security can also lead to potential savings on insurance premiums. Insurance providers often offer discounts to businesses with adequate security measures in place, which can help reduce your operating costs.

How CHeKT Delivers

In summary, CHeKT’s Proactive Visual Security platform offers a comprehensive solution for businesses concerned about crime and theft. With real-time monitoring, deterrence, and potential savings on insurance premiums, investing in CHeKT can help protect your business’s future.

If you’re a business owner concerned about crime and theft, don’t wait until it’s too late – invest in CHeKT today and safeguard your business for years to come.

Conclusion

Mandate for Verification: With 94-98% of dispatched alarms being false, video verification is no longer optional but a necessity to comply with strict false alarm ordinances and avoid escalating fines and fees on both the alarm company and the customer.
Standardized Central Station Response: The CHeKT Video Alarm Communicator (V-Com) provides a standardized, real-time feed of video and alarm events to the central station, ensuring consistent verification across all camera brands and enabling operators to confirm a crime-in-progress quickly.
Financial and Operational Savings: Implementing video verification eliminates costly fines, avoids the expense of deploying security patrols for verification, and improves customer retention by removing a major source of customer dissatisfaction (false alarm fees).
Prioritized Law Enforcement Dispatch: By providing law enforcement with verified video evidence of a crime in progress, video verification ensures that real emergencies receive a prioritized, faster response, thereby deterring crime and increasing the chances of apprehension.

FAQ

Q: What is the extent of the false alarm problem, and what effect does it have on security companies and their customers?

A: The false alarm problem is vast, with 94-98% of all dispatched alarms being false. This results in a high volume of false alarm ordinances that impose fines and fees on both alarm companies and their customers, leading to increased operating costs and a loss of customer satisfaction and retention.

Q: Why is video verification the only way to solve the false alarm problem and meet new ordinance requirements?

A: Video verification is the only effective solution because it allows central station operators to confirm a crime in progress before dispatching law enforcement. This immediate video evidence eliminates the need for costly security patrols or key holders to physically verify the event and is often a mandatory requirement for dispatch under new ordinances.

Q: What is the main function of the CHeKT Video Alarm Communicator (V-Com) in the central station workflow?

A: The CHeKT V-Com standardizes the video verification process. It quickly delivers live video and pre- and post-alarm event clips to the central station operator, ensuring a consistent visual experience across all camera brands. This allows the operator to accurately confirm the nature of the alarm, which in turn leads to a prioritized, faster police response to verified crimes.

David Erickson

Vice President of Operations and Innovation – Problem solver, operator, and technology leader with deep experience building and scaling B2B platforms in the security and video monitoring industry. As VP of Operations and one of the inventors behind the CHeKT Proactive Visual Security Platform, has helped lead the company from early stage growth to multi million dollar revenue, national adoption, and acquisition.