The Best Way To Protect Your Family Home

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The thought of a burglar breaking into a home is a very scary and real fear for many people. Not only are a person's valuables at risk, but the burglar may be dangerous and a threat to the person's life. However, many new houses have a home security alarm system installed during construction, and even older houses are being retrofitted with a security system by home owners. These systems give a peace of mind as if there is a guardian watching over the house at all times.

What's in a Home Security Alarm System?

A home security alarm system is most often a network of various technologies. The actual sensor that a burglar would activate might be a passive infrared motion detector which can detect movement by heat sources (infrared radiation from the human body) meaning that a total lack of visible light would not hinder an infrared motion detector from operating. Likewise, a sensor might be a simple mechanism that triggers when doors or windows are open. Various levels of alarm indication include lights that turn on automatically to warn the burglar that an alarm has been triggered (and that someone is aware that the house is being attacked), a loud audible alarm that wakes anyone inside and alerts them to the danger, and often an alert is sent out to the security company who installed the security system so that operators can contact the appropriate law enforcement or emergency agencies in the area, if they receive confirmation that the alarm is genuine.

Other security technologies for a home security alarm system might include an automatic fire alarm and other emergency alarms that cover a wide range of dangerous circumstances that operate in much the same way as the aforementioned burglar alarm with both the users of the security system and the security company being alerted. However, many new technologies are being implemented into security systems yearly. A new home security alarm system might be able to measure the weight and size of an object so that, for example, a house pet would not trigger a false alarm of the system, saving the security company time and freeing up resources for more dire emergencies.

Even in the event of a false alarm, a responder for the security company will make a call to the user of the home security alarm system to make sure that they are safe and to verify that the alarm was not a genuine alarm. Previous versions of the home security alarm system were prone to many false alarms by pets, malfunctioning parts, or dying batteries, but newer types compensate for these problems with sensors designed specifically to assess the quality of the rest of the system. Before, the best protection that homes could hope to have was a guard dog. Now, own a home security alarm system that never sleeps, never rests, and automatically reacts to a myriad of dangers while displaying human judgment in assessing threats.