Analog Alarm Receiver Replacement

Your analog receiver is obsolete. Phone lines are disappearing. Peoplecall Cloud lets you replace your physical analog receiver with a cloud service — without touching a single alarm panel.

Why replace your analog receiver now?

Traditional analog alarm receivers depend on PSTN phone lines that are being phased out by telecom operators worldwide. As copper lines disappear, monitoring stations face a critical choice: replace the hardware infrastructure or migrate to a cloud-based solution.

Physical analog receivers require dedicated hardware, line cards, and ongoing maintenance. When a line card fails or a phone line goes down, your monitoring station loses coverage — with no fast recovery path.

  • PSTN lines being shut down by telecom operators
  • Hardware receivers require expensive line cards and maintenance
  • Single point of failure: one bad line card = lost signals
  • Limited scalability — adding capacity requires new hardware

How Peoplecall Cloud replaces your analog receiver

Peoplecall Cloud intercepts the analog signal before it reaches the phone network, routing it securely over IP to our cloud. Your CMS software sees Peoplecall Cloud exactly as it would see a physical analog receiver — no software changes required.

No panel reprogramming

Alarm panels keep calling the same number. Peoplecall Cloud answers the call in the cloud instead of a physical line card.

No new hardware

No line cards, no rack equipment, no physical receivers to install or maintain. Only a stunnel client on your CMS server.

Zero downtime migration

Run Peoplecall Cloud in parallel with your existing receivers. Migrate at your own pace, with no interruption to your monitoring operations.

Compatible with your CMS

Peoplecall Cloud outputs signals using the Sur-Gard (1) protocol over IP. Your existing CMS software connects to it like any other Sur-Gard (1) receiver.

Compatible alarm protocols

Peoplecall Cloud supports all major analog alarm communication protocols used by monitoring stations worldwide:

  • Ademco Contact ID — The most widely used protocol. View Contact ID event codes
  • SIA DC-03 — Standard ASCII-based protocol. View SIA event codes
  • 4+2 / 3+1 formats — Legacy pulse formats still in use
  • Robofon, Express, High Speed, FBII Super Fast — Additional supported formats
  • Elevator protocols — P-100, SCS, IBS (2)/TSA, A-Number

View all supported protocols →

Trusted by leading monitoring stations

Peoplecall Cloud is already in production at over 100 central monitoring stations worldwide. We manage over 300,000 connected alarm panels in real-time.

Our clients have replaced dozens of physical analog receivers and thousands of analog lines — without a single panel reprogramming or service interruption.

Ready to replace your analog receiver?

Request a personalized demo and see Peoplecall Cloud receiving signals from your own panels — before you commit to anything.

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  1. Sur-gard, MLR2000 is a registered trademark of Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd are used solely for identification and compatibility purposes.
  2. IBS® and SBN® are trademarks of Innovative Business Software, Inc., Irving, Texas, USA.