How To Shop For The Best Home Security System For You

There are many choices when it comes to security for your family and your possessions. Regardless of the system that you choose, you should be looking for a system that will give you the peace of mind, safety and security that your family deserves. Consider the following points when shopping around for the best burglar system.

First, do a safety inspection of your property and your house to see which areas you need secure. This will include doors, windows, garage doors, basements, and skylights. Consider any easy access an intruder would have such as adjacent trees, fences, etc. that could allow them to gain entry to your home easily. Also, bushy landscaping gives a burglar cover and a hiding space.

Second, a security system usually has a variety of components like speakers, a control pad and/or computer, sensors, warning lights and connections that pull the whole system together. Popular on the market today, are two types of systems – hardwired and wireless. Only a professional security system installer should put in a hardwired system because they are quite complex and involve many connections and wiring. Wireless systems are less complex and don’t include cords and wires linking the system together. While the wireless systems are easier to install, they are less reliable because the signal can be blocked, or an intruder can interfere with it, rendering it useless.

The motion sensors on a home burglar system pick up any type of movement in the yard or home. When there is a movement picked up, an alarm sounds, the central monitoring station is electronically contacted, and the police are called. It’s important to have the motion detectors calibrated properly so that outside movements that are okay, like birds, animals, even strong breezes, don’t set off the alarm.

There are also heat-sensitive sensors that can sense changes in temperature that are sudden – the type of heat changed caused by an intruder’s body heat or a newly started fire.

The lighting used by security systems is used at night to illuminate when a person’s presence is detected on the property. The purpose is to frighten the intruder and make him go away. Avoid using a too-high-wattage bulb because the motion detector’s bright light could be annoying to those that live near you (or yourself!)

The video systems are used to monitor what’s going on at the property and in the home. The cameras can either be obvious or concealed, depending on your approach. If they are out in the open, you might have the cameras destroyed by a potential burglar. Hidden cameras take away the fear factor of the presence of a security alarm system; however, you can capture intruders on tape. This means that the footage could be helpful to police during an investigation. Some people use cameras that aren’t real as decoys and place them in prominently obvious locations to deter break-ins.

Another option is to use panic buttons strategically placed around your home so that you can immediately contact the security system’s monitoring center in case of a true emergency. This will give you a direct link to their 24 service, where they will contact the police, fire, or ambulance, depending on your emergency.

By: Kieran Adams

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