How does monitoring work on the IQ Pros and IQ Panels with multiple IQ Remote partitions? Will each partition be separately monitored if I want the devices assigned to each partition to be differentiated? Is it possible to have only the panel/pro monitored with the monitoring station being able to know which partition the alarm is coming from?
Will each partition be separately monitored if I want the devices assigned to each partition to be differentiated?
Just a clarification on the term, monitoring refers to the system as a whole. If it is professionally monitored, operators will respond to alarm signals from the system wherever they occur.
I think though that you just want separate areas of the location to be armed independently, correct? That’s what partitions do for you. If you for example have a house and a home office and want to arm the office separately, you would create a partition for it, assign the sensors there to that partition, then you could just arm that office partition.
If the office partition is armed but the rest of the system is not, you could open other sensors as needed with no response from the panel. If an office partition sensor is tripped, the panel would then go into alarm (or entry delay, depending on that sensor’s programming).
Partitions do not require secondary keypads, all programming and partition setup is done on the main panel, and all communication from sensors and to the monitoring station go through that main panel.
An overview of the partitions page in the panel is on page 53 of the manual here.
Okay. Will the monitoring station know which sensor is being triggered and from which partition? For instance, if the garage and house is separately partitioned with separate panels, will the monitoring station be able to know that an intruder is coming from the garage and not the house?
Sensor names are synced with the monitoring station and the exact zone which tripped the alarm is reported to the monitoring station.
So if you have a Garage South Window and that zone trips the alarm, operators will be able to see that particular zone caused the alarm, along with any subsequent sensor trips during that alarm event.