Security or life safety alarm or surveillance system

means:

(1) Equipment designed and marketed to perform any of the following functions (on a continuous basis):

(A) Monitor, detect, record, or provide notification of intrusion or access to real property or physical assets or notification of threats to life safety.

(B) Deter or control access to real property or physical assets, or prevent the unauthorized removal of physical assets.

(C) Monitor, detect, record, or provide notification of fire, gas, smoke, flooding, or other physical threats to real property, physical assets, or life safety.

(2) This term does not include any product with a principal function other than life safety, security, or surveillance that:

(A) Is designed and marketed with a built‐in alarm or theft‐deterrent feature; or

(B) Does not operate necessarily and continuously in active mode.