When your monitoring platform goes dark, move your whole book overnight.
Argos is a monitoring platform independent alarm dealers migrate to when their provider fails, gets acquired, or sunsets a transport — heterogeneous signal ingest, retransmission to your central station, and billing, all in one place. Signals stay native end-to-end: SIA stays SIA, Contact ID stays Contact ID.
Monitoring resold from a UL-listed wholesale station · No truck roll · No new contract
Native format passed through unchanged — no lossy SIA-to-Contact-ID translation.
When the platform dies, your whole book is stranded overnight.
Two mirror problems, one platform. Argos is the fast, self-serve place to land.
Dealers held hostage
Independent dealers are captive to monitoring platforms that fail, get acquired, or sunset transports (POTS / 3G / 4G). When the platform goes dark, signal routing, retransmission, and billing all strand at once — with no fast place to move.
Homeowners left unwatched
An orphaned or unmonitored legacy panel still works — but nothing is listening. Taking over the system today means a truck roll and a new multi-year contract. It shouldn't.
One input-and-output-agnostic pipeline.
Inputs → log & act → outputs, built on pluggable adapters. Sources and destinations are additive; signals are carried in their native format the whole way through.
Wireless sensors — including SimpliSafe — via supervision + pattern inference.
Captures a legacy panel's dialer (Contact ID / SIA DTMF) and bridges it over SIP.
Twilio SIP trunks into an Asterisk receiver fleet — decodes CID / SIA over the line.
Bring any other source. Adapters are pluggable, so inputs are additive.
Every signal is logged and the account's users are alerted by push, SMS, or email.
An extensible rules layer decides what happens next — expanding over time.
A cloud-held arm state governs whether signals are acted on — enforced for every input.
Pass native SIA / 4-2 through to your central station over PSTN or IP (SIA DC-09).
Or watch and record without dispatch — per-system output policy, your call.
Revive sensors nobody else will touch.
Two plug-in devices — sold through dealers and direct to consumers — bring orphaned wireless sensors and legacy phone-line panels back onto the platform. The 3-dealer path doesn't depend on them; they're upside.
Argos RF receiver
Fixed-tuned, receive-only, enroll-by-serial. Revives wireless sensors — including SimpliSafe — with supervision and pattern-based event inference generic tools (rtl_433) lack.
SIP ATA (Grandstream)
A provisioned Grandstream HT-series ATA that captures a legacy hardwired / PSTN panel's dialer (Contact ID / SIA DTMF) and bridges it to Argos over SIP — G.711, tuned settings.
Wholesale for dealers. A free floor for homeowners.
Simple, per-account pricing you can build a book on — plus a consumer path with a free self-monitor tier and optional professional dispatch.
- Multi-tenant signal platform + billing
- Nested customer accounts & provisioning
- Professional monitoring passed through from the wholesale station
- Resell at retail (market modal ~$19.95)
- AI book onboarding — import your account export overnight
- Watch your own system
- Live status & real-coverage supervision
- Alerts by push, SMS & email
- Household members with scoped roles
- Everything in Self-monitor
- Professional dispatch from a UL-listed central station
- No truck roll, no new contract
- Self-install an Argos device & sign up direct
Optional hardware: the Argos RF receiver (~$129) and a provisioned Grandstream SIP ATA (~$79–99), one-time — sold through dealers and direct. All prices are charter-provisional, finalized against the wholesale rate card.
A migration destination, ready when you need it.
Why now
Transport sunsets (POTS / 3G / 4G) and platform failures strand dealers on a recurring cycle. During a provider failure the switching costs invert — a ready destination becomes the safe move.
Why Argos
Built by operators who ran this exact class of platform in production. Signals stay native end-to-end, monitoring is resold from a UL-listed wholesale station, and AI is kept entirely out of the dispatch path — enrich and escalate only, never suppress.
Why it's fast
AI book onboarding turns a dealer's account export into a validated, provisioned book overnight — and a growing decoder library expands device coverage panel by panel. Migrating is measured in hours, not weeks.
Don't wait for the platform to fail.
Set up your dealer account, import your book, and keep your accounts' signals flowing — without being hostage to one provider that might go dark.