We provide our customers with leading edge technology and quality service backed by our unique Commitment to Service. It's something unverified conventional alarm companies simply cannot guarantee!

Sonitrol vs Conventional Alarms

Commitment to Service

Introduction to Sonitrol

What is Sonitrol?

Why choose Sonitrol?

Who makes Sonitrol's technology

What is a verified alarm system?

Sonitrol vs AlarmForce

Sonitrol in a multitenant

Technologies Sonitrol uses

Sonavision in the dark

*From participating dealers since 1977.
^†Based on documented captures to date.
^‡Average documented response across BC.

Verified Electronic Security

Sonitrol provides businesses with a single source of integrated, state-of-the-art security solutions for intrusion, video, access and fire - all backed with professional monitoring by experienced, trained personnel. Our technology sets us apart. The ability to verify an alarm event in real time gives Sonitrol unrivaled credibility with local law enforcement. That is a key advantage as a growing number of municipalities pass Verified Response regulations requiring verification that an intrusion is actually taking place before police will dispatch personnel to the site.

Sonitrol has the best apprehension rate in the industry - and the fewest dispatches for false alarms. Our integrated components allow us to customize a solution that can expand easily as your needs grow.

Commitment to Service

We are so confident in our technology and responsive service, that no one else in the industry can match our guarantees.

A heritage of technical innovation

The company known today for detecting burglars had its roots in pest control of a different sort in the late 1950s. An Indiana exterminator became an inventor when he installed microphones within the walls of a building to listen for termites and pinpoint their location. He invented other sound-related devices, too. On June 16, 1960, he incorporated “Sonitrol”, from the words sound and control, to manufacture and market his innovations.

Law enforcement legacy

In 1963, he met a local police officer who owned an alarm company. The officer was frustrated with systems that seemed to let the perpetrators get away. He hired the inventor to develop new ideas for the alarm company. The inventor then responded with the audio sensor and Sonitrol was born as a security company.

Success spreads

Today, Sonitrol provides tailored local service in approximately 180 cities throughout the United States and Canada. Sonitrol is the third largest commercial security company in North America—and the leader in verified electronic security. 160,000 apprehensions and counting...