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Safety and Security – Residential Security Systems

By Brian on Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 | No Comments

By Steve DeWall

Home invasions are three times more likely for homes that are not protected by security alarms that those that are. This is from a recent study. It is no wonder that there is more than $20 billion in annual sales for the security alarm industry. Below we discuss the various components of a security system for your home.

The First Line of Defense – Entry Detection

A system of sensors on windows and doors is the first line of defense. Burglars enter through doors on the ground floor in three quarters of all home intrusions. As a first step, your basic system should protect all entry doors, front and back. To further improve security, have sensors installed on windows a burglar would likely target. Residential security system sensors are normally hard wired to the system control panel in new construction homes. For existing homes a wireless set up is the preferred connection.

The Second Line of Defense – Motion Detection

If an intruder penetrates your home without tripping your first line of defense, motion sensors step in to assist. Passive infrared sensors detect body heat and the motion of that heat. At least one motion sensor should be installed in an area or room a burglar is likely to traverse. More expensive and effective systems include sensors on each floor of the home, basement included. There are systems with motion detectors that differentiate size/mass. These pet immune systems ignore smaller sources of heat emitted by small and even medium sized dogs.

Protection from and Warning of Accidents

The second most common reason homeowners install security systems is to provide fire detection. Heat and smoke detectors sense the components of a fire and trip the alarm. This alerts the occupants and monitoring company real time. Secondarily, the fire department is notified. For those wanting protection and warning from other calamities, there are water sensors and temperature detectors. Water sensors detect excess water in an area. A ruptured supply line to the washing machine or other system may have caused this. Freeze detectors are available to signal if the house is unusually cold. This could signify that the heating system has failed and pipes are in danger of freezing. There are other sensors that alarm upon high levels of carbon monoxide or natural gas.

Controlling the Security System

Control of the system is done through the use of a keypad. This is predominantly used to arm and disarm your home security system. It should be installed in a location that is convenient but also where perpetrators will not be able to determine if the system is armed. An alphanumeric LCU screen displays the system status. This will show armed status, which sensors are active, whether is set for perimeter only, etc. Entering your personal security code disarms the system. More expensive systems provide touch screens. Options include card and proximity readers of key fobs disarm the system in a flash. Daily use of installed residential security systems is not the norm. People tend to ignore setting the alarm if it is inconvenient or a threat of not envisioned. The control panel and the attitude towards arming it must be normal and convenient!

Security Control Panel

The security control panel controls the system’s various elements. This includes keypad, audible alarm functions, sensors, and communication with the monitoring station. Underwriters Laboratories (an independent product certification company) considers those systems with a battery backup for power failures. Self-contained systems combine panel, keypad and audible alarms all in one physical unit. This system is easy to install, but a determined intruder can defeat it. Separation or the control panel from the keypad, complete with an out of sight installation is much better.

Upper end systems can be controlled and monitored by the Internet or smart phone. While away, you can verify the system armed. Similarly you can disable the residential security system to allow a friend or contractor gain entrance. Following this, you can re-enable the system. Higher end systems can be set up to provide notification of routine entries and exits. This goes as far as watching your kids come home from school on video. Some of these upper end systems allow you to vary the thermostat remotely.

Security Alarm Monitoring Service

A 24-hour monitoring service is the only way to allow your residential security system to provide you the full benefits. Upon any sensor being triggered, a good home security system signals a monitoring service, staffed continuously. This provides you protection around the clock, every day of the year. Upon alert, the monitoring service will try to contact the occupants to verify the alarm before calling police (using a password). About 98% of all alerts are false or spurious alarms. That is one reason for the phone call. The other is to get more information to help assist.

Considerations

Hard phone lines can be cut. This may notify your monitoring service of an “outage”, but it will not notify them of a problem. Getting your residential security system set up to use your cellular phone as a primary or back-up is the only way to assure you of the best protection. On the financial side, my monitoring service used to charge me monthly. I contacted them and got a large rebate by paying a year in advance.

Bottom Line

Most likely the reduction in your homeowner’s insurance annual bill upon installation of a residential security system with fire detection system will save you money. Even if you get no rate reduction from your insurance company (unlikely), you will live your day free from worries of intrusion and sleep your night soundly.

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Unforeseen Benefits of Your CCTV Home Security System Vis-

By Brian on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 | No Comments

By Nahshon Roberts

When you installed your CCTV home security, you have done so for the purpose of monitoring your house, your nanny and your teenaged children while you were away, asleep, or otherwise engaged. What you did not foresee is that it can benefit your pets, too!

Pet Safety

Unless you have a Doberman pinscher and a German shepherd for pets, you have the responsibility to keep your pets safe from intruders and from themselves. Let’s face it. Your pets can be endangered by criminals who are intent on pet-napping for nefarious purposes and even by neighbors who love your pets so much they are willing to commit a felony to own them.

At the very least, you can easily identify the perpetrators of the crime through video footages from your CCTV home security cameras. You can take a lesson from the dog-napping case in a pet store in Burlington, Vermont where an $800 miniature schnauzer was stolen and subsequently recovered, thanks to the surveillance cameras in place.

Your pets can also be a danger to themselves. With remote viewing of footages from your surveillance cameras, you can alert the people in the house about the dangers your pet is putting himself in. You can also use the video footages to ascertain the places your pet is frequenting, the dangers therein, and what you can do to lessen them.

Pet Monitoring

If you are having problems in dog training, your CCTV home security system can be used to monitor your dogs. You can more readily identify causes for dog behavior problems from available video footages, said behavior problems ranging from mildly destructive furniture chewing to highly problematic aggression.

You can even install sensors that will alert you when your pet is entering a restricted area! Quite handy for your antique vases, don’t you think?

Pet Cuteness

Pets are cute! But often, you miss the most candid and cutest pet moments simply because you cannot spend your life staring and waiting for your pet to make that once-in-a-lifetime trick.

With CCTV home security camera, you can rewind and review hilarious things your pet has been doing while your back was turned. Who knows when you will earn money from having the funniest pet home video ever, right? Maybe even make enough to actually pay for part of a new CCTV home security system!

However, you have to take precautions when using surveillance cameras around pets. For one thing, you have to place them in high areas where your active pets cannot jump, tumble, and crash on them. Of course, if your pet is in a cage or a bowl like rodents, reptile and fish, you do not have this problem.

Still, you have to remember that your CCTV home security system is there for reasons beyond protecting and videotaping your pets, no matter how adorable they are. It is there to deter crime against person and against property. For this reason, be sure to perform regular maintenance to preserve its integrity either from human intrusion or pet excursion.

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Monitoring Home Security

By Brian on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 | No Comments

By Roger Thompson

If you have decided on installing a home security monitoring system, you must first also need to consider the company from who to purchase such a system as it is equally important to choose the proper equipment as it is to buy from a good company. The first thing you need to consider is how comfortable are you with the company supplying the home security monitoring system and whether you feel you can place your trust in such a company. To help you form an accurate assessment of the company you may also want to consult your friends, neighbors as well as look to the police department’s crime prevention section and get references from them.

So, before you choose a home security monitoring system makes sure to follow a few essential steps that will ensure that you get the best possible solution, and that you won’t end up regretting your purchase. First off, you need to look very closely at the company’s credentials and look for whether it is accredited to Better Business Bureau, and what is its position regarding disputes, and how have any disputes been resolved, and it would also help if the company were to have membership with National Burglar and Fire Alarm Association.

Next, you will need to find out whether the company supplying you the home security monitoring system has a monitoring centre of its own, because it is not necessary that every such company does in fact have one, especially not the smaller suppliers who may even be subcontracting this work to third parties.

After you have seen the credentials and checked how the company monitors your home, you will need to see whether the company has back-up communications systems or not, and when telephones get disrupted as can easily happen, you will need to be sure that the company has some form of backup communication system if the home security monitoring system is to work effectively under all circumstances. Another feature that a company selling home security monitoring systems should have is the ability to monitor for fire as well as carbon monoxide, and you should also look for how well is the contract drafted out and then ensuring that you have gone over the contract with a fine comb and not been taken in by an aggressive salesperson’s pitch.

Finally, you also need to check whether the home security monitoring company has a plan for maintaining the equipment you buy from them and also, you will need to learn the procedures that the home security monitoring company will be following in case it receives an alert from your home so that you can know the duration of time it is going to take to take appropriate action following a security challenge.

Thus, not only is the actual home security monitoring equipment important, but also the company supplying you the equipment and the quality of the supplying company is as important as the quality of the equipment itself.

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Tips For Better Home Security

By Brian on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 | No Comments

By Liz Wood

Many factors go into determining how secure a home will be. Most people assume that by locking their doors their home is completely secured, but the truth is that there are many ways that are just as important as locked doors to ensure a secure home. It is important to invest in home security measures because home security protects you and your family, protects your valuables and provides peace of mind.

There is a very important need for home security in today’s world. Intruders are capable of much more than they ever were in the past. Not only are they a threat to your home and family, they also instill an everyday fear within you that can cripple your day to day life. By using effective home security, you can protect your home and family and restore your peace of mind.

Home security is adaptable to individual needs. Basically, there is something out there for everyone on any budget. Your security can be complex or it can be extremely simple, such as putting a home security tag in your window from a security company to scare away intruders. Nonetheless, you should still take the time to review your options and figure out what works best for you.

One of the best options available to homeowners is a monitoring system that monitors the home when you are not there. If something were to set off the alarm, it would react and someone would be notified fast enough to see what is happening or to send someone down to look at it. Of course a home monitoring system is a more expensive way to protect your home, but it is definitely worth it in the long run. Other, more affordable, options in home security include safe proof locks, home alarms that are directly connected to the police station and motion detectors.

Lighting is another important aspect to home security. If your home is not lit adequately, dark nooks will form around your property and give potential burglars a place to hide. There should be proper lighting both indoors and out. The most vital areas to be well lit include front and back door keyholes, downstairs windows and doors, garage entrances, and sliding glass doors.

Bottom line, nothing should stand in your way when it comes to protecting your family and your home. The best security system is the one that contains more than one security device. You need to safeguard all aspects of your home! Doing so will help you sleep better at night and help you to feel safe when you are away from your home because you will know that all of your possessions are safe. Home security is not a subject to be taken lightly.

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Security System Alarm Monitoring For Your Home

By Brian on Sunday, July 31st, 2011 | No Comments

By Ralph Winn

Kick your home security into high-gear with today’s security system monitoring technology. Ensure your home is safe 24 hours a day, protected by the guardianship of security system monitoring that keeps a watchful eye over you and your family.

How Does Security System Monitoring Work?

Companies like Brinks and ADT, trusted names in the industry, offer security system monitoring to their clients at a low monthly price. Home Security Stores provide you with the hardware; the security company provides the security system monitoring.

A security system monitoring company is in business 24/7 to respond immediately if your security system alarm is triggered. If triggered, your system will alert the security system monitoring company, who can then alert you and the police. It’s like having someone by the phone, ready to call 911, at all times.

How to Select a Security System Monitoring Company

Approach security system monitoring from the point of view of your specific needs. Rather than follow the deals, follow your requirements. Begin by making a list of your security system monitoring wants and needs. Here are the questions to ask:

•What safeguards and security does the company offer for your information?

•What certification, listings, and training do they have?

•What redundancy is available?

•What procedures are in place for emergency contingencies at the monitoring center?

•What backup communications are available, and what procedures to ensure reliability of communications are in place?

Next, consider the security system monitoring company’s response in an emergency.

•How do they respond to your need for notification? (i.e. Do they call to confirm an emergency?)

•What additional features are available, such as emergency tech support?

•How responsive are they to updating your personal information, and what safeguards are in place to ensure it’s you making the changes?

•When you call them, do they take control and responsibility, or are you shuffled between the dealer, installing company, and any other entity?

Finally, consider your personal preference. What does your gut tell you? Are you comfortable putting your security in this particular security system monitoring company’s hands?

•Lower home owner’s insurance up to 20 percent

•Summon help in a matter of seconds

•Add fire monitoring for free (residential only)

•Opt for new voice-over IP monitoring

Having someone monitor your security system 24 hours a day means constant protection. Your home is connected to a system of professionals who respond immediately in an emergency. They are always standing by to jump into action. Security system monitoring gives you extra eyes and ears and added security in your home.

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