Neighbourhood Monitoring Centre (NMC) currently has five (5) structure to choose from: Private, Exclusive, Data Logging, Open, and Enhanced.  Depending on the type of neighbourhood watch you and your neighbours would like to form your neighbourhood watch could consist exclusively of tens, hundreds, or thousands of selective neighbours, or neighbours within a specific radius of your home.  So how do I select the structure that best suits my neighbourhood watch?

A Private Neighbourhood Watch requires the head/leader of the neighbourhood to register for a Communal Shared-Notification account.  The server will be assigned an API Key, Neighbourhood Identification (NID), and Hardware Identification (HID).  API-Key and NID are shared with all members of the Private Neighbourhood Watch.  The leader of the neighbourhood watch is capable of adding and removing member.  Alert from any member is propagate to all members of your Private Neighbourhood Watch.

An Exclusive Neighbourhood Watch requires each member of your neighbourhood watch to register for a Communal Shared-Notification account with the same NID.  The server will assign each member a unique API-Key and HID.  Alerts are propagated to all members with the same NID.

Data Logging Neighbourhood Watch is not necessarily a neighbourhood watch since it doesn’t shared alerts with any members.  This structure only logs alert to the server and nothing else. Your NID must be kept secret.

An Open Neighbourhood Watch doesn’t propagate alerts base on NID but on a preset maximum radius in which each member desires to operate.  Each member is required to register for a Shared-Notification account with method of propagation set to Radial and set a maximum propagation radius. The server will assign a HID and a unique API Key.

An Enhanced Neighbourhood Watch is a combination of Open and Exclusive Neighbourhood Watch.  This type of neighbourhood watch allows a member to limit the operating radius in which alerts are shared and also belonging to another neighbourhood watch.