The Top 5 Additions To Your Home Security System

If there is one thing that is true about securing one’s home from dangers of all kinds, it is that being complacent is never a good strategy. For a variety of reasons, it is simply not possible to slack off and put home security advances and improvements on the back burner and still pretend to keep your property and your loved ones out of harm’s way. Not only are there constant technological advances that provide us with better ways of securing ourselves from intruders and other, natural incidents, but most people don’t have all available technologies installed in their home in the first place. In any case, adding new capacities and technologies to your security system is always a good idea, and in line with that thought below we have assembled a list of the five best additions to tack on to your home system. Read, learn, and implement!

1) The first item to make this list has most certainly got to be wireless home security technology. In reality, this would not necessarily be so much of an addition as a remodeling, but either way it is a change that people with hard-wired systems need to seriously consider. Why? Well, because hard-wired alarm systems are exposing themselves and their families to unnecessary risk of intrusion, as burglars and robbers have for a long time now been refining the art of bypassing such systems. With wireless alarm systems, crooks will be presented with an obstacle they can’t get around, and your alarm will sound unfailingly in case of forced entry.

2) The next item to recommend is digital video capabilities and a CCTV system. Many people were turned off to adding a CCTV unit to their home security system because the quality of video was always so incredibly bad—so much so that the poor resolution often prevented the video material from being accepted as evidence in court. That’s no longer the case, and with the crisp quality of digital video, today CCTV units are being put up left and right in not only commercial but also residential security systems.

3) Next, home owners should consider improving intruder detection by complementing their metallic contact strips (placed on almost all doors in a home that lead outside) with glass break detectors, which can be installed on window panes. The classic burglar’s trick of smashing a window to get inside will no longer be an option, as once a protected window pane is shattered the alarm will be tripped.

4) The next item has to do with maintaining contact with the dispatchers at the monitoring center that your home security provider operates, and comes in the form of two-way voice capabilities that cover the entire home. Unlike traditional central units mounted on walls that a person has to approach to be able to maintain a conversation with a dispatcher, with this technology conversations can be had from virtually any point within the home thanks to the sensitive microphones installed.

5) The last addition to make the list is a bit of a twist, and simply consists of calling your home security provider to have a professional come to your home in person and evaluate your security needs to give any possible, pertinent recommendations on new additions to your home system.

By: Erik Mandelson

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