Not really. Bluetooth or any other transmission type wouldn't improve the system because the hack demonstrated involves simply putting out a strong transmission on the same frequency as the alarm so that the base unit can only hear the portable radio. Even with Bluetooth you could simply use the frequency for BT and jam it out so long as your transmitter is more powerful than the transmitters in the alarm sensors. The real fix would be something like my ADT alarm has. If a sensor is no longer reachable by the master panel then it trips the alarm. So in the case of my alarm at home you couldn't defeat it this way because making the master panel deaf to the sensors only makes the police show up :) It's kinda lame that this alarm system couldn't implement that simple enhancement to check and see if the sensors were reachable.
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Not really. Bluetooth or any other transmission type wouldn't improve the system because the hack demonstrated involves simply putting out a strong transmission on the same frequency as the alarm so that the base unit can only hear the portable radio. Even with Bluetooth you could simply use the frequency for BT and jam it out so long as your transmitter is more powerful than the transmitters in the alarm sensors. The real fix would be something like my ADT alarm has. If a sensor is no longer reachable by the master panel then it trips the alarm. So in the case of my alarm at home you couldn't defeat it this way because making the master panel deaf to the sensors only makes the police show up :) It's kinda lame that this alarm system couldn't implement that simple enhancement to check and see if the sensors were reachable.