Home Security Monitoring For Your Security Alarm System!Home security monitoring of your home alarm system is important to your overall effort of making your home more secure. Home alarm systems are usually monitored by a central monitoring station or a telephone dialer system. Depending on individual family circumstances, one of these monitoring methods may be more suitable for your needs than the other. There are numerous companies that will monitor your home alarm system from a central monitoring station, for a monthly fee. These monthly fees vary from one company to another, as well as the services these companies provide. A telephone dialer system does not signal a monitoring station if your alarm is triggered, because it is setup to call a select group of telephone numbers that you have pre-programmed it to call. Your cell phone could be one of the numbers called & once a call is answered this home security monitoring system will play a pre-programmed recording that you previously setup. Both systems may be of benefit to you, but which one is most suitable for your specific needs. The first thing you need to understand is how big the false alarm problem is with home security systems & how this problem may directly affect you. Most law-enforcement agencies experience a false alarm rate of over 90% for home security alarms. This means for every 10 calls they respond to only 1 of those calls is not due to a false alarm. Due to such a large false alarm problem, many municipalities have created bylaws to help deal with the trouble this is causing their local police agencies. These bylaws differ from one municipality to another, but many of them have some variation of the following: • Police agencies will only respond to one or two false alarms at a particular home, before they impose a fine. • The fine must be paid in full before they will respond again. • If police respond to another false alarm after the fine has been paid, many police agencies will not respond anymore to that address for a period of one year. • There are other police agencies that will not respond until you can show them that a professional alarm installer has checked out your system & that everything checked out ok.
With such a false alarm problem some local & national home security monitoring companies will send a security employee to your home to see if there are any signs of a break-in before calling police. This service is provided for a higher monthly monitoring fee. If the security employee saw evidence that a break-in has occurred he/she would call the police & relay that information. With a home security monitoring employee telling them that there is evidence of a break-in, the police will usually dispatch officers to the home immediately. If you or a close friend, neighbor or relative that lives close to you can check the outside of your home for signs of a break-in if your alarm is triggered, then a telephone dialer system may work best for you. If you are unable to respond to your home, or if you don’t have anyone that can, then a home security monitoring station may work best. If you can have a telephone dialer system call your cell phone & possibly one or two other people that can call the police, you may wonder why you need to pay someone a monthly fee to do this. If you’re sure, you or one of the people on your call list can be contacted if the dialer system calls, you may not need home security monitoring. Some home security monitoring companies have 2 way communications, they can listen in & speak to anyone in the home once the alarm is triggered. Two way communications is also offered with some telephone dialer systems. Some of these dialer systems will also start calling pre-programmed phone numbers if a panic alarm or a smoke alarm is activated. If you don’t have a support system of people a telephone dialer system can call, a home security monitoring station may be the best option available to you.
A central monitoring station will call the police if they are unable to contact you or contact anyone whose phone number you provided them with. Unfortunately if a telephone dialer system is unable to reach anyone at any of the phone numbers you pre-programmed into the system the dialer system will be of no value to you due to the fact that you are not allowed to have the system call the police directly. Most dialer systems will keep calling the pre-programmed phone numbers that are entered into the system until it reaches someone, but unless you are sure that the dialer system will be able to contact someone in a reasonably short period of time it will not be of any benefit to you. There is another option that you may have available to you or could have available to you that would work very well with a telephone dialer system. If you have or are planning on getting a video surveillance system for your home, this could also alert you if your home has been broken into. A video surveillance system that is hooked up to the internet will also notify you if a surveillance camera(s) of your choosing detects any motion. I have two cameras inside my home that will do one of the following if motion is detected. The system will email me, call my pager, or send a text message to my cell phone.
A telephone dialer system & your video surveillance system are totally independent of one another. So if you are receiving intrusion notification from both sources at basically the same time, it would be safe to say that it is not a false alarm. If you contact the police & inform them you just received an intrusion alert from two independent sources, they should also see it as not been a false alarm & dispatch a police unit to your home immediately. What’s great about telephone dialer systems & video surveillance systems that are viewed over the internet, is that there are no monthly fees. This is only true for a video surveillance system if you have an existing internet connection in your home. To learn more about home video surveillance systems please check out my home video surveillance web page.
Top Quality Home Security Information That Will Help You Provide Your Home & Family With An Adequate Level Of Security At The Lowest Possible Cost! This report is a must read for anyone who is serious about protecting their home & family against the onslaught of unlawful intrusions that effects so many each & every day!
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