Why it matters
Why insurers and monitoring providers care.
From an insurer's perspective, an alarm system that is not designed to a recognised standard is hard to underwrite. From a monitoring provider's perspective, a non-compliant system is hard to monitor effectively - they cannot trust that what they are seeing reflects what is happening on site.
When something goes wrong, the question of whether the system was compliant comes up immediately. Designing and documenting to AS 2201 from the start avoids the situation where a claim is contested because the system cannot be shown to have been built to standard.
