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Matson Alarm Company and Honeywell create a safe environment for Central Valley Community Bank

Honeywell's dome cameras were used for high-resolution surveillance

The Client:

The Central Valley Community Bank has served California's Central Valley since 1980.  From their original Downtown Clovis office, they have expanded to 10 independently owned branches in the Foothills, Fresno, Madera and Kerman, CA.  Yet despite the bank's growth, it has remained true to its original "roots", commitment to the core values of integrity, trustworthiness, caring, loyalty, leadership and teamwork.

The Situation:

Bank management was concerned about creating a safe environment for their employees and their customers since many of their branches are in remote locations.  The bank contacted Matson Alarm of Fresno, CA to provide the solution.  Matson Alarm selected Honeywell as their partner of choice.

"With any kind of financial institution, you need to have multiple forms of communication.  And the GSM product fulfills that need.  The GSM product is based on the same technology as the standard analog wireless system, but it runs over the digital network.  It's faster, more reliable and allows two-way communication and, so far, it's been working flawlessly,"  says Ben Kiser, of Matson Alarm Company.

The Solution:

Matson Alarm is using the new Honeywell GSM radio product as a backup to their phone lines

Matson Alarm designed full premise security that incorporated intrusion and video as well as the new GSM alarm communications product.  To provide a comprehensive intrusion detection system, Matson installed the FA700KP touchscreens in the bank as well as glassbreak detectors and motion detectors.  "Since the FA700KP are touchscreens, they are very easy for the customer to use.  It makes it very user-friendly and very manageable for them,"  explains Mike Matson, vice president of Matson Alarm.

Honeywell's GSM product is the alarm industry's first line of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
technology products that use dual and triple communication paths to ensure highly reliable alarm transmission and delivery.  These radios use General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and the Internet as primary communication paths.

"With any kind of financial institution, you need to have multiple forms of communication.  And the GSM product
fulfills that need,"  explains Ben Kiser, technical manager for Matson Alarm Company. "The GSM product is based on the same technology as the standard analog wireless system, but it runs over the digital network.  It's faster, more reliable and allows two-way communication and, so far, it's been working flawlessly."

The Matson Alarm Group

The bank's video requirements were also unique.  Matson installed Honeywell's mini dome cameras at the
teller cages, entrances, ATMs and parking lot to provide the bank with a crisp picture of their surroundings. They also needed to be able to store large amounts of high quality video information, which could be quickly retrieved for investigative purposes.  Matson Alarm installed the Fusion Digital Video Recorders to satisfy that requirement.

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