Bay History
Fire Alarm
SBN
CCTV
Corp departments at your assistance
100

The year Bay Alarm was founded

What is 1946

100

PIV is short for this device on a Fire Alarm system

What is Post Indicator Valve

100

The section where you would find out if an account's equipment is Bay leased or customer owned

What is class codes

100

CCTV is short for this 

What is Closed-Circuit Television

100

When you need to update an EN list for an account 

Who is emergencylistupdates@bayalarm.com 

200

Bay Alarm recently left this parent company and is now independently owned and operated by Tim Westphal 

What is Balco Holdings

200

These type of drawings refer to the outline and locations of HVAC systems, plumbing systems, duct layouts, piping, and other technical aspects for the construction project

What are mechanical drawings

200

The section where all notes and history about an account are written

What is the comm log

200

Coaxial cables are used in this form of CCTV system

What is Analog
200

When a client calls in about their Open Eye system and needs remote technical help

Who is tech cloud support

300

Bay Alarm currently has this number of local servicing branches within the company 

What is 16

300

Any "A" occupancy with over this number of people requires a manual fire alarm system

What is 300

300
Under the search screen, if you put this symbol before and after a specific word, SBN will search for all accounts that have this word listed 

What is the % sign

300

This part on a IP based cctv system supplies power to all the cameras

What is the "POE switch"

300

When a client calls you directly and has questions about their alarm history or when we dispatched on an alarm signal

Who is MonitoringOnDutySupervisors@bayalarm.com

400

DAILY DOUBLE! 

This manufacturer was the leading manufacturer for all Bay Alarm security related products from 1990 - 2013

400

A manual pull station is required to be mounted within this many feet from an exit door

What is 5 feet

400

The section where Fire Plans would be listed on an account

What is the "Phasing" tab

400

This type of cctv camera lens allows the camera to adjust its field of view

What is "varifocal" camera and/or "PTZ" camera

400

This corporate department schedules and facilitates all fire alarm related inspections 

Who is fire routers

500

Bay Alarm purchased this company in Arizona to expand its out of state alarm portfolio

Who is Bonds Alarm

500

A voice evacuation system is required to maintain notification through speaker strobes for the entire building for this many minutes

What is 15 minutes

500

This word is written in the panel type section on an account when the account has no record of the panel type and/or manufacturer

What is "Null" 

500

This feature on an IP rated camera will improve a camera's image quality under high-contrast lighting conditions where both dimly and brightly lit areas are present in the field of view 

What is Wide Dynamic Range (WDR)

500

DAILY DOUBLE!

This long time corporate employee, past branch manager, past operations manager, and a leader in the company was recently promoted to Chief Operations Officer

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