3 Trending Home Securities

Home secu­ri­ty is not like it once was. Nowa­days, you can mon­i­tor your home from aboard a space­ship if you want­ed to. These three trends in home secu­ri­ty make watch­ing your home eas­i­er than ever.

Cam­era Sur­veil­lance

In the ear­ly days of home secu­ri­ty, a bell or chime would sound when some­one broke into your house. Police depart­ments and your alarm com­pa­ny were noti­fied simul­ta­ne­ous­ly and hope­ful­ly, the bur­glar was alarmed enough to leave. How­ev­er, when the police arrived at your home, unless they were able to appre­hend the thief, they would have no idea what he/she looked like. With cam­era sur­veil­lance, the police will have a bet­ter chance of catch­ing the bur­glar and see­ing exact­ly how the scene went down. Video mon­i­tor­ing allows the police to watch footage of the crime and use that visu­al knowl­edge to poten­tial­ly catch the assailant.

Addi­tion­al­ly, cam­era sur­veil­lance lets you keep an eye on your home’s exte­ri­or. Mon­i­tor­ing sys­tems can be set up inside and out­side of your house to allow you to see every­thing that goes on at all times. For instance, if your garbage cans keep get­ting knocked over, a quick look at the video will show you if it’s pesky rac­coons or neigh­bor­hood kids play­ing a prank.

Mobile Mon­i­tor­ing

These days, you’ll be hard-pressed to find some­one who doesn’t have a smart device. Through mobile tech­nol­o­gy, you can now mon­i­tor your home direct­ly from your phone, tablet, com­put­er, or lap­top. Most high-tech secu­ri­ty com­pa­nies now have mobile ver­sions of their sys­tems in the form of apps that lets you check up on your home from any­where. Through mobile mon­i­tor­ing, you will get noti­fi­ca­tions if some­thing goes awry in your home. If some­one is try­ing to break in, you’ll know right away.

Mobile mon­i­tor­ing sys­tems are great for peo­ple who vaca­tion or trav­el con­stant­ly for work. You may live in Toron­to but while you’re vis­it­ing rel­a­tives in Mon­tre­al, you can check on your house to make sure every­thing is in order.

Ease of Use

Home secu­ri­ty sys­tems shouldn’t require an exten­sive usu­al man­u­al to oper­ate. Com­pa­nies are shift­ing towards cater­ing to the user expe­ri­ence instead of rely­ing on those who are tech-savvy to pur­chase their prod­ucts. Although home secu­ri­ty sys­tems are becom­ing more com­plex and pow­er­ful, they are also becom­ing eas­i­er to oper­ate, leav­ing cus­tomers with a great under­stand­ing of how the cam­eras and mon­i­tor­ing devices work.

You shouldn’t have to do exten­sive research just to arm your sys­tem, and secu­ri­ty com­pa­nies are rec­og­niz­ing that. Push but­ton tech­nol­o­gy, easy arm­ing sys­tems, one-touch apps, and even voice com­mand are becom­ing the norm in home secu­ri­ty. Look for this trend to con­tin­ue into the future as tech­nol­o­gy improves, so will the ease of use of home secu­ri­ty sys­tems.