Everything about Alarm.com

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Alarm.comA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A flame retardant fabric nanocoating based on nanocarbon black particles@polymer composite and its fire-alarm applicationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: History of the Donner partyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Monkey Responses to Three Different Alarm Calls: Evidence of Predator Classification and Semantic CommunicationCited 1,008 times
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Monkey Responses to Three Different Alarm Calls: Evidence of Predator Classification and Semantic Communication

  Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney, Peter Marler · 1980 · Science · 1,008 citations

• Why rejection hurts: a common neural alarm system for physical and social pain

  Naomi I. Eisenberger, Matthew D. Lieberman · 2004 · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 906 citations

• Vervet monkey alarm calls: Semantic communication in a free-ranging primate

  Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney, Peter Marler · 1980 · Animal Behaviour · 723 citations

• Insights into the Problem of Alarm Fatigue with Physiologic Monitor Devices: A Comprehensive Observational Study of Consecutive Intensive Care Unit Patients

  Barbara J. Drew, Patricia Harris, Jessica K. Zègre-Hemsey · 2014 · PLoS ONE · 376 citations

• Water-based hybrid coatings toward mechanically flexible, super-hydrophobic and flame-retardant polyurethane foam nanocomposites with high-efficiency and reliable fire alarm response

  Kun-Yu Guo, Qian Wu, Min Mao · 2020 · Composites Part B: Engineering · 272 citations

• Clinical presentation, management and outcomes in the Acute Heart Failure Global Survey of Standard Treatment (ALARM-HF)

  F. Follath, M. B. Yilmaz, J. F. Delgado · 2011 · Intensive Care Medicine · 243 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A flame retardant fabric nanocoating based on nanocarbon black particles@polymer composite and its fire-alarm application

  Long Xia, Yan Lv, Zhongxi Miao · 2022 · Chemical Engineering Journal · 121 citations

• A flame retardant poly vinyl alcohol/graphene oxide/phytic acid composite for a quick response and ultra-long fire alarm

  Zhihao Zhang, Zhenzhu Zhou, Junchao Huang · 2024 · Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 76 citations

• Designing smart anti-theft alarm system via lead-free BSFO-PDMS composite based triboelectric nanogenerator

  Reddicherla Umapathi, S.V.N. Pammi, Soobin Han · 2025 · Chemical Engineering Journal · 68 citations

• A review of alarm root cause analysis in process industries: Common methods, recent research status and challenges

  Haniyeh Seyed Alinezhad, Mohammad Hossein Roohi, Tongwen Chen · 2022 · Chemical Engineering Research and Design · 60 citations

• Computational approaches to alleviate alarm fatigue in intensive care medicine: A systematic literature review

  Jonas Chromik, Sophie Anne Ines Klopfenstein, Bjarne Pfitzner · 2022 · Frontiers in Digital Health · 57 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• History of the Donner partyCharles Fayette McGlashan · 1880
• Three years in California [1846-1849]Walter Colton · 1850
• A Força que Vem do AltíssimoSilvio Dutra · 2016
• OpenStack essentialsDan Radez · 2015
• 📕Englands alarm to vvar against the beast · 1643
• 📕Englands alarm to vvar against the beast · 1967
• 📕Englands Alarm to VVar against the Beast : By command from Heaven, and His Israels Example upon Earth, comming- in to rescue David, out of the hands of a cruell Lord, and a bloudy Edomite : upon the same ground from Scripture and Reason, Israel had then, and Christians now, To resist the Prince ruling in the Aire, and with the Kings of the Earth. In 3. Sections : Wherein, I. The History of Sauls War against David is so related from the sacred Text, that it relates in whole, and in part, to the three last yeeres affaires : The most remarkable Passages between the King and the Parliament before the War brake forth. II. And to the bloody Execution of the Edomite in this War against the Parlia- ment in Ireland and Lngland ever since. III. Here is also excellent Reason given, Why the Tribes came not in sooner; and sufficient Reason, Why they came-in so Armed at the last : Relating ful- ly to this present time, The wonderfull Providences, The admirable Deli- verances, Strange Discoveries, &c. As at this day. Also, To confirme the hearts and hands of the Godly in their warfareMcAlpin Collection of British History and Theology (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary) · 1643
• 📕Solar Lighting Solutions Cover the Disparity between Urban and Rural Areas · 2014

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