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Do you know what’s going on in your home when you’re away at
work? Do you have a reliable home security system that can
relieve you of your worries and concerns when someone is
breaking into your home when you’re away? If you already have a
home security system in place, how reliable and steadfast is it?
Has anyone ever broken into your home even with your current
home security system in place? Do you know that you can now
install a home security system that utilizes the Internet so
that the home security system can actually alert you of unusual
activities at home?

That’s how far the home security system technology has advanced.
If you’re still having one of those old home security systems
that blares a siren whenever there’s an intruder, then you’re
not doing the best you can to protect your home. How many times
have you heard one of those sirens cut through the silence of
the night and ignored it because the siren is turned off about a
minute later? Intruders who break into homes know how to turn
off the old types of home security systems and they can usually
break through any of those home security systems easily.

With the advancement of technology, home security systems have
developed into more than just an electronic alarm system that
detects opened windows or doors. Conventional home security
systems have sensors built into the home security units that
detect interruption in the flow of electricity. Whenever the
home security system detects the interruptions, it will either
let out a deafening siren or activate strobe lights to attract
attention.

But have you ever thought about this – what if others choose to
ignore the sirens and lights?

What you really need is a home security system that will
silently alert guards and you of the activities in the home.
Combining the advancement of the technology used to create and
develop home security systems together with the Internet, the
home security system will silently send signals of the intrusion
to a call center run by the home security company. It will also
send a message to your cell phone or make a call using your
telephone line to you to alert you of a possible break in. With
the home security system’s silent method of alerting various
parties, the intruder is not alerted but YOU are. Therefore, it
will give the police and the relevant authorities enough time to
act and catch the intruders in action.

In fact, the latest home security systems in the market today
allow you to activate and deactivate your home security system
via the Internet or through your phone. This is what I call a
TOTAL convenience to home security systems.

Dakota Caudilla, journalist, and website builder Dakota Caudilla
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more detailed version of this article.

Through the years, the technology involving surveillance and security had evolved so much. Try to look for analog CCTV cameras that were used 10 years ago and you’ll see the huge difference between them and the modern cameras. Try to look for old recording devices used for surveillance and you’ll get the same comparison.

Today, you’ve got the Digital Video Recording system and cameras. The cameras are more sophisticated – smaller in size but definitely bigger in functions. In most cases, if you are going to install surveillance systems for your homes, you’ll have cameras which will be wired to the DVR system. Lately though, many are opting for wireless cameras to go with their DVR systems. In fact, wireless cameras are becoming quite popular among home security systems. Why is this so? Well, for the fact that most homes don’t have easily accessible walls, doors, windows, basements or attics for installing wires.

Mostly homeowners would opt to include surveillance system installation upon building their homes. But, in the case of older homes and those which opted for surveillance system installation too late into the building of their homes, wireless cameras are the perfect option. Some experts, however, cautioned that wireless cameras have drawbacks. These include maintenance of batteries for each camera. The good thing is that most batteries for these products can last up to 3 years of regular use. And features like long range sensor outweighed the drawbacks.

Surely, wireless cameras have great benefits especially if you have a 5 or 10-year old house and you want to install surveillance system as the latest addition to your humble abode. And if this set-up can keep your home protected, I think it’s worth it to check on batteries once in a while.

In England it is reported that your image is captured several hundred times a day by hidden and surveillance cameras. There are currently 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain. More are planned in next few years. There is one for every 14 people in the country.

 

There is some anecdotal evidence that the U.S. is in the process of catching up. It seems every night there is some hidden camera story on the news:

 

–a burglary at a convenience store

 

–a robbery at a big box store

 

–a nanny cam incident

 

–perverts trying to hook up with underage kids

 

–the latest FBI sting

 

–a congressman on vacation at a special interest group’s expense

 

Those are some examples-the list is huge.

 

That is just what you see on the early news.

 

Of course most of the cameras in our area are traditional security cameras. Check out a casino, big box store, airport, local intersections the list grows every day.

 

Then toss in the “you tube” craze, nanny cams, home security systems and you have a whole different set of needs for spy cameras. And it is growing like crazy-the weirder the better. There seems to be no end to the crazy videos out there.

 

A local shop that sells hidden cameras reports:

 

–a 45% increase in residential sales.

 

–Hidden camera sales are up, too.

 

–the trend shows no sign of stopping.

 

Hidden cameras can be put into just about anything from a mirror to a water bottle, from a radio boom box to a baseball cap-just about anything. The more common the object is the better.

 

Another contributing factor to the growth of hidden cameras is cost. As the cost of hidden cameras comes down, they become more accessible to more folks.

 

So if you want to know what is going on when you are not around at home, at work, at your business or wherever get a hidden camera and FIND OUT. Everyone else will be watching you-don’t miss the boat.

 

Jack Krohn is the #1 author of Home Security Articles in the country. He owns SECURITY SOLUTIONS a one stop resource that provides solutions and answers for all your self defense and home security problems.

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Home security is a booming industry, growing a little more every year, especially as crime has continued to increase in more recent years due to a failing economy and a wavering job market. Last year, Americans spent $28.2 billion on security products like alarms and motion-detecting sensors as well as monitoring services. For what? Many Americans complain that their home security providers don’t live up to their promises. In some metropolitan areas, subscribers also complain that emergency response times have slowed, which is estimated to be the result of the nearly 80 percent false alarm rate and the low priority burglaries often take in such crime-ridden areas. So what’s the point of having home security, especially if you live in a safer area?

There are several. Many providers, like ADT, offer free home security systems for subscribing to their monitoring services and they provide substantial discounts on home insurance policies. Depending on your insurer, you could reduce your premium by up to 20%, the largest discount offered. Some people report savings of up to several hundred dollars, easily offsetting the cost of home security monitoring. A security system can also save you some serious cash in the event of a burglary. According to the Electronic Security Association, homes without such systems experience losses of over $5,000 per instance, while homes with security systems in place usually incur losses just over $3,000.

Beyond the monetary benefit, there are also additional benefits to your neighborhood, your children and oddly enough, the efficiency of your parenting. A study released by the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University last year concluded that security systems protected entire neighborhoods, not just the homes they serve. The four-year study found that break-ins decreased as the density of alarms within a residential area increased. It works as almost the reverse of the Broken Windows theory. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the theory, it asserts that when small problems like graffiti, broken windows and litter are ignored by a community, the overall decline of the community is imminent. People disregard, abandon or stay away from it. Similarly, when people implement home security in their homes, little by little the neighborhood responds in the same way and the level of security in the area increases, keeping burglars at bay.

Having a home alarm also reduces your likelihood of leaving a window open, one of the most common ways burglars gain access to a home. Central control panels monitor doors as they open and close, signaling which part of the house was entered or exited. Advanced systems can also monitor your garage door, another common point of entry for those hunting for an easy target.

Beyond actual security, alarm systems provide a variety of services, some are rather unexpected. One of the primary benefits of home security systems is that they assist many Americans with the toughest job in the world, parenting. Remember those days when you used to sneak out of the second story window, quietly crawl along the roof past your parents’ window and scale down the lattice into the freedom of the night? With a home security system your kids will never get away with it, ever. That’s because an armed system screeches when a window is slid open and won’t let you arm it in the first place when a window is left open. I was both unfortunate and fortunate enough to have parents who implemented a home security system as a way to keep tabs on my free spirit. They heard when I came in and they heard when I came out. I couldn’t even pretend that I made my curfew because even when the system was unarmed, it still beeped when I opened the door (or window), one hour after curfew. Ever-advancing systems are even allowing parents to keep alarmed locks on liquor and gun cabinets and affordable video surveillance lets parents see beyond closed doors.

As criminals continually think up new and outrageous ways to stay “profitable,” alarm and security monitoring companies are doing the same. The most successful providers are the ones with the most effective equipment and monitoring practices, so stick with the leaders when going the home security route.

I am thinking about putting an alarm system in my house for burglary and fire, are they really worth the money??

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