Can you still rely on your current alarm dialler?

Adésys has been delivering telephone alarm diallers and modems for monitoring critical processes and installations since 1983. We are proud of the high reliability level and the long lifespan of our products. On average, the devices in the field are 15 years old, with some devices that are 25 years old!

Insurance advisers in the horticultural and livestock sectors also regularly come across old alarm diallers, for example, when handling a request for a suffocation or crop damage insurance. And during the phasing out of CSD, it turned out that there were still a considerable number of old detectors in use in the water management and refrigeration sectors.

 But are these more than 15-year-old alarm diallers still safe and reliable? Can you still rely on your alarms being reported?

Although we are proud that our detectors are so robust that they stand the test of time, you need to be aware that old alarm diallers are not reliable. The electronic components of the circuit board wear out and devices such as the Severa, the first and second generation Octalarm or Modalarm and the T-series devices lack modern technology. Another example are Estafette alarm diallers, which have been out of production for a long time. The risk of failure increases over time, and with age it becomes impossible to predict when these systems will fail. Waiting until this happens will result in a situation in which you are temporarily without an alarm dialler or worse, the system fails to work during a calamity. Failure of an installation can, for example, result in temperature drop or livestock suffocating. As a result of this, in addition to the huge emotional burden, there is also huge financial damage. Of course, that is not an option!