Nighthawk Security monitors home alarm systems in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and across the Twin Cities metro. Your system reports to a UL Listed central station around the clock, and when you have a question, you can call one of the owners directly.
Reviewed by Joe Castro, Owner, Nighthawk Security · Updated October 2026
When a door contact, motion sensor, or smoke detector trips, your control panel sends a signal to our central station within seconds.
Within moments, the people on your call list also get an SMS text alert, so they can respond quickly and quietly. The operator who receives the signal can see which sensor tripped and where. If no one responds to the text, they call the people on your call list and send police, fire, or EMS when the alarm is confirmed or no one answers. You can follow the same event in the Total Connect 2.0 app.
Phone companies across Minnesota are retiring copper landlines, and an alarm that depends on one can go silent without warning. Every new Nighthawk installation includes a cellular communicator unless you choose Wi-Fi or Ethernet only.
If your home has equipment from a previous owner or another company, we can often keep the sensors and connect them to our monitoring. We can take over your burglar alarm system for $169 instead of the $299 installation price, for homes and businesses in Minnesota and Florida. We connect a new communicator to your system, run a full system test, recommend any additions or updates, and provide a yard sign and window stickers. A takeover requires a three-year agreement, with no credit check and no SSN or EIN required. Additional equipment is extra, and monitoring costs the same.
During an on-site evaluation we check the panel, sensors, and communicator and tell you what can stay and what needs replacing. If you’re leaving another provider, see how switching to Nighthawk works.
Every system is planned around the house, but most start with:
Every Nighthawk system reports to a UL Listed, TMA Five Diamond certified central station staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Redundant centers in Florida, New Jersey, and California back each other up, so a storm or outage in one region doesn’t leave your home unmonitored.
We hold a BBB A+ rating, a 4.7 out of 5 rating on Angi, and Minnesota license TS000435. We install Resideo and Honeywell Home equipment with Total Connect 2.0 app control, so you’re never locked into proprietary hardware.
Installation starts at a discounted $299 with a three-year service agreement and includes a control panel, battery backup, communicator, one motion sensor, and three door and window contacts. Beyond the installation, you can choose to monitor any environmental conditions you want covered, including fire, smoke and heat, low temperature, high temperature (such as freezers), carbon monoxide, flammable gas, and water leaks or flooding. Pricing is the same across our Minnesota and Florida service areas. We’ll walk through exactly what your home needs, and what it costs, before anything is installed.
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Call or text (866) 472-3525, email our team, start a chat, or schedule your no-cost, no-obligation on-site evaluation today. We will discuss your home or business and recommend the right next step.
Installation starts at a discounted $299 with a three-year service agreement and includes a control panel, battery backup, communicator, one motion sensor, and three door and window contacts. We’ll quote your exact system during an on-site evaluation.
No. Every new installation includes a cellular communicator unless you choose Wi-Fi or Ethernet only, so your system doesn’t depend on a phone line.
Often, yes. Many Resideo and Honeywell systems can be connected to our monitoring. We’ll inspect your equipment and tell you what can stay and what needs replacing.
The people on your call list get an SMS text alert right away. An operator at our UL Listed central station also reviews the alert and, if no one responds to the text, calls the contacts on your list and dispatches police, fire, or EMS when the alarm is confirmed or no one can be reached.
Minneapolis, St. Paul, and communities across the Twin Cities metro, plus western Wisconsin. Contact us with your address to confirm coverage.
Proactive Visual Monitoring adds a deterrent layer. Our central station watches the video and speaks to people on your property through installed hardware.
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