I have been reading a lot of information here and elsewhere about the fundamentals of off-site monitoring solutions, and ultimately learning a lot through the process. We have a 24/7 control room and remotely monitor both seen and unseen alarms for various clients across both residential and corporate realms. These include both alarm activation's and video verification solutions, i.e. IP Surveillance. We have recently invested in Geovision's Center V2 solution for our "Black Screen" or event based monitoring, and have been installing Geovision IP camera solutions into our client's premises so as to monitor them "license free". However, I am finding that this way of thinking limits our market penetration and am looking at a fundamentally different solution whereby I can link up multiple clients, with existing different brand cameras, both IP and Analogue, and offer them off-site guarding as a service. I am leaning towards i-View as our main platform, but would like to get feedback from the IPVM community as to best practices for growing market share this way. I do not want to base this investment off the back of only what I am being told by different vendor salesman, but rather from communities such as this one, with unbiased opinions and different ways of thinking.
I look forward to you advice and thank you in advance.