Additional Features of a Home Security Alarm System | Improving ...

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The most basic home security alarm systems include a control panel, a keypad, a siren, access monitors and, in the case of monitored systems, an off site control station. These basic features are adequate for simple home protection against burglars but some people may opt for more advanced home security alarm systems that incorporate more advanced features. Home security alarm systems may include a smoke detection system, glass break detectors, panic buttons and motion detectors.

When most people think of a home security alarm system, they think of a burglar alarm system. While it is true that the primary function of a home security alarm system is to protect your home and your possessions from burglars, this is not the only function of home security alarm systems. As the name home security alarm system implies, the system is devised to protect your home. This includes protecting your home from damage due to fires. For this reason, many people have a smoke detection system linked to their home security alarm system. This will sound an alarm and alert the control station if smoke is detected.

Glass break detectors are another advanced feature that some individuals like to include in their home security alarm system. These systems are able to identify the sound of glass breaking and will activate the home security alarm system when this sound is identified. This is helpful because most home security alarm systems include access monitors that determine when doors or windows or opened. This makes your home vulnerable to burglars who break a window rather than opening the window to access the home. Installing glass break detectors in your home security alarm system will minimize this problem.

Panic buttons are another optional feature in a home security alarm system. These are hand held devices that can be placed in strategic locations throughout the house. These panic buttons enable the homeowner to send and immediate message that they are in trouble to the monitoring center. This alarm can be sent silently or can be an audible siren that sounds throughout the house.

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A Crime Tracker Special Report: Daytime Break-ins

16.07.10

GREENVILLE, N.C. - More than half of all break-ins happen in the middle of the day. That means when you're away at work criminals are taking notice and plotting to take your stuff. When the time comes you roll out of bed, head out for work, and lock the doors tightly behind you. While you're hard at work so are criminals.

“In the middle of the day--believe it or not they're watching to see when you leave, checking out the times you go to work, whether or not you have that sign in your yard that says you have an alarm or even if you have a dog,” said Pitt County Sheriff’s Office Crime Prevention Joy Langley.

Locking windows and doors is a first step, but it won't stop would-be crooks from entering your home. 

“Most of the time people think that it won’t happen to them it's always someone else's neighborhood,” said Shelby Mitchell who specializes in Security Services at Williams Fire Sprinkler.

Connie Perkins knows it could happen in his neighborhood. Neighbors on both sides of the condo he rents have had their homes burglarized.

Source: WNCT

Home Security Burglar Alarm- News

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Burglar alarm sparks Westville drug bust New Haven Register (subscription) - Sep 11, 2009 including an Uzi and AK-47-type assault rifle, and cash from a home on a sleepy Westville street early Thursday after responding to a burglar alarm, Westville man busted on weapon, drug chargesall 3 news articles »

Burglar alarm leads to drug bust WTNH - Sep 11, 2009 New Haven () - When police responded to a burglar alarm at a New Haven home, they found much more than intruders. The alarm went off around 2am on

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Down economy forces the hands of hard-up burglars Gainesville Times - Sep 13, 2009 Criminals look for quick and easy hits, which is why Hooper and Strickland both recommend audible alarm systems to scare off would-be burglars.