Sentences with phrase «cost of a false alarm»

Breakfree Royal Harbour Holiday Apartments Cairns Guest Review Response from Breakfree Royal Harbour Holiday Apartments Cairns Our Reception staff make a point of informing guests at check - in about the cost of a false alarm causing a fire engine to attend but the charge is standard throughout Queensland and we see no need to include this information on our web site.

I disagree with Dr. Maue and Professor Curry about the long - term cost of false alarms.

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In an October 2015 Sports Illustrated article, a number of experts said that, while impact sensors showed enormous potential for research, and as a second set of eyes, and believed such promise would grow as the technology improved, they were skeptical about their current value, especially because of their cost, and vulnerability to false alarms.

It is estimated that false alarms cost the UK in excess of # 1 billion a year (Source: FIA), but apart from the waste of resources false alarms detract the attention of fire services away from real fire incidents.

In recent years, municipalities have imposed penalties on security companies, which, in turn, have passed on those costs to their customers who go over a set number of false alarms per year.

But using this tends to blind decision - makers to the costs of acting on false positives: exaggerated warnings or even false alarms.

Extremely hypersensitive pattern detection was vital, because there was little cost for frequent false alarms but a great risk of becoming a snack by missing detecting a real leopard.