Electronic Alarms and Home Security Devices - Upgrade to next generation security sytem?

I have a 15yr old house with a hardwired Moose 11000 system on first floor door and window but no motion sensors.

6 zones plus hard wired smoke detectors.

Want to upgrade to newer system with motion detector(s), smoke detector interface and possible camera.

Also interested in broadband hook-up so I can bring up a web page with my house vitals. Have the system call me on cell when alarm sounds or company if needed. Sort of a next gerneration hookup. Don't know if this is a home security interface or a home automation but seems a security system would expand into features like that.

I can do this with my new car but don't know what is availible for home systems. There must be something similar

seems like an open system is best.

Any suggestions on systems to look at or contacts.

Honeywell/Ademco, GE/ITI, DSC, and Ge/Networx all have systems and add-on modules will do a lot of what you are after. Adding motions is really more a matter of expanding the number of zones and adding the wiring/wireless to accomodate them (motions are best on individual zones, for a number of reasons).

Calling the cell phone (which everyone seems enamored of for some reason) is mostly a matter of faking the pager format. There are a couple of system on the market with built in voice dialers (ELK M1, for example) but tend to be pricey.

Involving cameras is a seperate issue. Integrating cameras into the system is not difficult if you have some familiarity with the hardware and how to interconnect them properly and set up the programming, but can be daunting to a DIY. For this, you generally have to work with at least an entry grade digital recorder.