Home Alarm MonitoringThere are many though that have chosen to monitor their own alarm system with the assistance of a telephone dialer system. If you are not familiar with a telephone dialer system: • It is a small add-on component for wired security alarms & it is built in to the control panel of most wireless systems. • The home alarm monitoring is done by the system calling 3 or 4 individuals to inform them the alarm system has been triggered. Their phone numbers are pre-programed into the dialer system. • The owner of the system would preprogram possibly his/her cell number & the numbers of 2 or 3 other individuals who have agreed to take a specific action(s) after receiving a call from the system. • The owner would also need to put together a prerecorded message that would play for anyone answering a call from this home alarm monitoring system. The recording will need to clearly state the security of the home has been breached or the alarm system has been triggered. The home alarm monitoring is carried out by the individuals who are contacted by the dialer system & once notified of a triggered alarm they will each take a specific action on behalf of the systems owner. What action they take may depend on how close they live to the home or what action they feel comfortable in taking. For example one of the individuals may try to contact the owner of the home & just make sure that he/she is aware of the triggered alarm. If they failed to contact the owner they would take the exact same action as a home alarm monitoring company would take in the same situation & inform the local authorities the alarm has been triggered. The ideal person to have on the call list would be a close neighbor who could survey the home from a safe distance to see if there are any signs of a break-in. If signs of a break-in were observed the individual would want to quickly communicate this information to the authorities as this would have the police responding to the residence immediately. Unfortunately most people are not likely to find an individual who lives close to them & would feel comfortable in checking out the exterior of their home after their alarm has been triggered. If a person was fortunate enough to have such an individual on their call list there is certainly no guarantee that they would even be home when or if the dialer system called them. Using the dialer system by itself doesn’t provide any greater security value then what you would receive with a home alarm monitoring company’s central station. As long as the dialer system can reach you on your mobile phone you can at the very least carry out the same actions as what a home alarm monitoring station is paid a monthly fee to do. You can call home if needed to see if it is a possible false alarm & if no answer is received you can report your alarm has been triggered to your community police agency. The only real way for a dialer system to provide any guaranteed value in the home alarm monitoring of one’s home is if it is used in conjunction with some very valuable & practical surveillance technology. Using a telephone dialer system with this highly useful & beneficial technology will actually provide the most effective & reliable method there is for the home alarm monitoring of one’s home. The reason this home alarm monitoring method at the present time is not widely used is the technology is still recently new. When it does become more popular I believe you will see many people moving away from what the alarm monitoring companies are presently offering. Over the past several years there have been some important & beneficial technical advancements made in the security industry that provides the best & most reliable method of all for monitoring the security of one’s home. With installing video surveillance cameras inside your home you can now view the live video been captured by the cameras via the internet. Once motion is detected by one of your cameras your PC’s hard drive can start recording everything the camera is viewing. Most people believe it is the camera itself that triggers the recording to start once motion is detected, but it is actually the video surveillance software that does this. The camera sends a video image back to your computer & once the software picks up on the slightest change in the image it is receiving it will trigger the hard drive to start recording. The surveillance software can be setup up to trigger other events. It can be setup to send your mobile phone an email or a text message within seconds of motion been detected. The surveillance software allows you to choice what security cameras will be allowed to trigger certain events once activity captured by the camera is detected. For example you do not want any cameras outside your home to trigger an alarm, send you text messages or an email alert with snap shots every time motion is detected outside your home. It is very important though for these events to be triggered once activity is detected inside what is supposed to be an unoccupied home. There are many mobile phones that do not have the capability of sending & receiving email but most of the newer cell phones been sold appear to offer this feature. If you have a cell phone that can receive email messages you can have snap shots emailed to you within seconds of activity been detected inside your home. If your mobile phone is not capable of receiving emails you can always have your surveillance system setup to send you a text message whenever motion is detected. Either way you will receive notice within seconds of someone breaking in. As I have been stating throughout this web site it is important for you to have the right electronic security coverage so an intruder’s presence is detected when they are still on the outside of your home. Having a telephone dialer system call your cell phone if your alarm is triggered will work extremely well with receiving an email with snap shots or a text message when activity is detected inside your home. With both of these systems in place you can easily tell if someone has broken-in & you should not have any problem convincing the police that it is not a false alarm. If a home alarm monitoring company was to inform the police that your security system has been triggered the response time to your address could be a couple of hours or more. Unfortunately there are many police agencies that have to deal with a false alarm rate of over 90% which means only 1 out of every 10 calls they receive turns out not to be a false alarm. Unless the home alarm monitoring station or an individual calling can confirm with any certainty that it is not a false alarm, police have no other choice than to treat these calls as low priority. If you were to call the police & inform them that you were just emailed snap shots of intruders that are presently inside your home this obviously cannot be taken as a false alarm. If you were sent a text message instead & you also received a call from your telephone dialer system this also cannot be taken as a false alarm. In this case you would need to inform the authorities that you have just received notice of a break-in at your home from two totally independent sources. Having your dialer system inform you of a triggered alarm could be a false alarm, but not if a totally independent system is sending you a text message of motion been detected inside your home a minute or so later. Once the authorities know it is not a false alarm they will dispatch officers to your address immediately. From my own experience working with different surveillance software, setting up the cameras to trigger certain events when motion is detected is very reliable. If you have any doubts, you can always trigger any events you have setup to insure everything is functioning the way it is supposed to be. If your dialer system notifies you your system has been triggered but you receive no notice that motion inside was detected it is most likely that it is a false alarm or a criminals failed attempt at breaking in. If you want to find out for sure to give you peace of mind you can always log on to the internet & view whatever images your surveillance cameras are capturing in real time. To have this home alarm monitoring method work it is not necessary to install surveillance cameras outside your home but you would want to setup two or more inside depending on the size of your home. If you reside in a small apartment you could quite possibly get away with using one surveillance camera or even setup your webcam to cover your living room area & the part of that area that leads to the bedrooms. You basically want to setup a surveillance camera the same way in a house & one that will capture an intruder in an area of the basement that leads to the main floor of the home. If you require additional information on video surveillance systems for your home please visit my home video surveillance web page. I sincerely hope the information outlined on this home alarm monitoring web page was in some way helpful & beneficial in for you. You may want to consider bookmarking this site as updated information & new web pages will be uploaded weekly.
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