ASIAL Certified Monitoring Centres - Australian Security Industry Association Ltd (ASIAL)

ASIAL Certified Monitoring Centres


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ASIAL operates a grading scheme for alarm monitoring centres. This is a well-respected system of independent inspections that check compliance with Australian Standard 2201.2:2004 (Intruder Alarm Systems - Monitoring Centres).

A typical site with a monitored alarm system passes responsibility for 'watching' the site to the monitoring centre company for about 3/4 of the time. For the major part of its life, a building remains empty. When the owner has his/her alarm system sealed, he/she has the right to expect the monitoring centre to maintain certain operating abilities.

Typically the sort of items that are covered in the standard are:

  • the construction of the centre, together with its physical and fire protection,
  • access into the centre and its 'modus operandi',
  • ventilation systems and emergency breathing equipment,
  • power supply arrangements,
  • communications (telephones, duress and radio),
  • redundancy in the monitoring equipment,
  • and its record-keeping
The ASIAL scheme seeks to provide customers with the reassurance that the standards applied at a monitoring centre are independently audited on a regular basis.

It is an unfortunate fact that some monitoring companies are claiming to be graded when in fact this is not correct - we advise customers or consultants to check any such claims. This can be done by either asking the company to produce its certificate (dated certificates are issued, normally with a validity of two years) or by viewing the ASIAL list of the graded centres.


* The listed ASIAL Certified monitoring stations reflect those organisations who have gone through the grading system as per Australian Standard AS 2201.2-2004. ASIAL takes no responsibility for companies who may change their operation subsequent to certification.

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