Home Security Installation

An elaborate home security system can be quite an undertaking.  While there are excellent wireless security systems on the market today that can greatly simplify installation, they are sometimes quite pricey or overkill for what the average homeowner needs.  And that’s what it really comes down to - a system that you as the homeowner feel comfortable with, and one that lets you sleep soundly at night.

Interestingly, most of the people we work with are more concerned with creating a safe environment for their family rather than protect their personal possessions.  When looking for a home security system to install, you should keep that in mind and ask yourself what you are trying to achieve or what you are trying to protect.  Home security installation for protecting possessions is quite different that a system that is designed to alert you and your family to intruders. And a system that is designed to alert you to an intruder is orders of magnitude less complicated than one with video surveillance and automated police or emergency notification.

So the first tip was to narrowly define what your goal is for your home security system. The second tip is to look at separate components to achieve your goal, not so-called “plug and play” systems. You may be able to get away with a series of motion detectors that cover either you main rooms or your main avenues of travel in your house. You’ll be much better off installing a series of motion detectors that terminate into an alarm or notification module than running sensors to every individual door and window. Plus, in a single story home, having access to the attic will make installing motion detectors and running the wires to a central termination center fairly simple.

The last tip is don’t make it too complicated. Bells and whistles are fun to play with, and may make you feel better about your system, but ultimately they won’t make you, your family, or your possessions any safer.