On Tuesday, the city officially decommissioned its Gamewell telegraph fire alarm system, also known as call boxes ... "Just one one more shot, nowadays, to tradition." The old Gamewell equipment will ...

[Jeff Sandberg] demonstrates that ably with his project to use ancient 1990s burglar alarm sensors in ... in question are from an old GM Interlogix security system. The sensors themselves sit ...

In the days before cell phones and sophisticated electronic alarm systems, residents here dashed to the ... the Ashland Fire Department has already stripped copper wire from the old system, replaced ...

he found an old alarm panel set up — but it had no monitoring service any more. Not wanting to pay a monthly fee to have it setup, he decided to try interfacing an Arduino with the system in ...

Hampton opted to get rid of the system because it was too costly to maintain, a trend that has occurred in numerous communities nation wide. A search on eBay shows old fire alarm boxes going for ...

In this article, I describe the process I used to create a home automation system using off-the-shelf products, Python and Linux. I start by describing the Serial I/O Kit, drive alert, water alarm, ...