I was at someone’s house today, when I noticed they had a new security system. They moved into their current house in 2021 (although the house is much older) and it had a DSC NEO system installed from the previous owners. I don’t know too many details, but I do know that it had mostly wireless door contacts and motion sensors (I think made by Honeywell). As far as I know, they never used the system and it was in pretty rough shape. It was powered up, but that was about it. Most of the wireless sensors either had dead batteries or were just completely missing altogether. The panel itself also had dead batteries. I don’t believe it was ever monitored while they had the house.
The new system is a DMP system that was installed at some point in the past few months. It was installed by a local security company that is actually the Autocall fire alarm dealer in my area. Apparently, they sell DMP for most things but they sell Autocall for fire. I guess this is good because it has allowed them to get the contact for some very large projects that DMP never could have handled.
Anyways, the new system consists of what I believe is an XT-series panel with a 5-inch touchscreen keypad. They use DMP wireless sensors in place of the old DSC ones.
This photo shows one of the many DMP wireless glass break detectors. This is a capability that the old system didn’t have.
Here is the actual panel. You can see the wireless antenna. I’m guessing the two wires at the top go to the keypad and a siren. The one at the bottom/side goes to the power supply. It is mounted in exactly the same place as the “old” DSC panel was.
Here is the touchscreen keypad. It is mounted in exactly the same place as the “old” DSC keypad. When I took the picture, there was some sort of alert message on the screen but I didn’t get close enough to read it.
I thought this system was kind of interesting. I’ve never seen a DMP system before.