Reasons for a Home Security System
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Your home security system should be the most important appliance in your home. One of the first investments that you should make after purchasing a new home is a home security system. Now more than ever, with drug use among America's youth holding at a steady pace or rising, a home security system should be on top of your priority list.
As an ex home security system salesman, it always amazed me how many people would purchase a home security system after they had been victimized. The main problem is, people have the true ability to think that crime will not happen to them. I would have to say that at least 6 out of 10 times that I went to an appointment, it was after an incident of some kind. Most people, if not all, like to think they live in a nice neighborhood, so they think that they don't need a home security system. The problem is, I can tell you first hand that crime happens everywhere. Lots of times crime happens in a neighborhood without anyone but the victims knowing about it. People don't always like sharing bad news with their neighbors, especially if they are not on speaking terms. Industry statistics show that chances are that if you are burglarized, it is by someone who is familiar with your home or neighborhood. Usually it is someone that lives in the neighborhood or maybe knows someone in the neighborhood.
A home security systems has four objectives:
1. Deterrence
Statistically you are 3 to 4 time less likely to have an intruder enter your home if you have a home security system sign on your front lawn and stickers on your windows.
2. Minimum loss
If someone is brave enough to enter your home after seeing the lawn sign, they don't believe that you actually have a home security system. You can go to ebay right now and purchase an ADT yard sign and stickers, which means that every yard sign you see does not mean that the home owner has a home security system. If a intruder decides to enter your home and the alarm sounds, chances are he is not going to stick around very long, he may take an item or two, be he won't be able to go shopping in your home because he knows the police have been called.
3. Avoid a confrontation
The last thing anyone wants, is to return home only to have an intruder in the house. If you have a home security system, if someone broke into your home, when the alarm sounded he probably left. If you arrive home and your alarm is sounding, you know not to enter the house.
4. Fire protection
The home security system of today has the abilityilty to have smoke detectors connected to it. ADT actually calls them smoke communicators. If smoke is detected, the home security system alerts the monitoring station and a representative calls your home, if someone does not answer the phone, the fire department is dispatched.
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I am in agreement that a home
I am in agreement that a home security system is one of the best investments a home owner can make. However, some people think that having just having contacts on the doors is enough. Heck, one person believed that the sensors on the doors would cover over the windows. What the heck? Who told them that lie? A hard wired system is a lot better and more reliable than a wireless. Remember you get what you pay for. I may not work in an alarm company, but I've installed security and surveillance systems before. I'm actually going to be installing a better security system at someone's house not giving the intruder one square inch. Every door and window will be wired. I'm making sure the phone line is not accessible and have a cellular backup, also having an alternative line to access a VOIP line. It'll also include fire and carbon monoxide protection, plus pull stations. Some for police, others for fire alarm triggering. A surveillance system with night vision cameras will also be installed, with the DVR in a wall mount lockable rack case, hidden somewhere. An Aiphone door bell camera doesn't hurt either.
For your home, I would recommend Bay Alarm or ADT. If you have a business facility, I recommend Sonitrol. Sonitrol has a huge edge because they rely on sound for verifying their alarm signals rather than motion or just perimeter alerts. Each area or room is wired with high sensitivity microphones so when the perimeter is triggered, they will listen in on the area. If it sounds like criminal activity, they will call police dispatch, whom they have great relationships with. If it's a false alarm, they just reset the system. They also do fire protection, video surveillance, and access control. I'm recommending that my church considers the access control for the new building they'll be having built to avoid having so many keys. Instead they'll just be keycards.
I have a security system from
I have a security system from ADT and a backup security system--a large dog that barks when someone comes near the house. Frankly, I think the dog is more of a deterrent. In the 10 years I've had the system, I had one false alarm (ironically, it was set off by the dog who was hiding in the room with motion sensors). ADT called the police and me, and I headed back home (I was a half hour away at the time). The police got there about two minutes after I got back home, meaning a real burglar would have had a full half hour to rob my house.