7 Helpful Alerts You Can Receive from Your Home Security System

Today’s home secu­ri­ty sys­tems can do much more than emit an alarm if an intrud­er attempts to enter your home. With the right sys­tem, you can be noti­fied of numer­ous alarm events and activ­i­ties at your home, pro­vid­ing greater secu­ri­ty and con­ve­nience. Best of all, you can receive these noti­fi­ca­tions direct­ly on your smart­phone, no mat­ter where you are. So you can have peace of mind know­ing what’s hap­pen­ing at your home and that your fam­i­ly is safe, whether you’re at work, trav­el­ling or sim­ply run­ning errands.

Here are 7 exam­ples of alerts you can receive from your home secu­ri­ty sys­tem and why they’re help­ful.

1) When your alarm system has been triggered.

This is the most tra­di­tion­al noti­fi­ca­tion (and arguably the most impor­tant). When your home secu­ri­ty system’s alarm goes off—for what­ev­er reason—you can be alert­ed imme­di­ate­ly on your phone. Plus, the mon­i­tor­ing cen­ter dis­patch­ers will also be noti­fied for alarm sig­nals, so they can send help right away.

2) When your security system has been armed or disarmed.

It’s help­ful to know when some­one in your fam­i­ly is enter­ing or leav­ing the house when you’re not at home. You can set this noti­fi­ca­tion to alert you when­ev­er some­body has armed or dis­armed the sys­tem. There are a few sce­nar­ios in which this noti­fi­ca­tion can be use­ful. For exam­ple, you can know that your child or part­ner has arrived home safe­ly or that a week­end guest has arrived while you’re at work. But also, if the sys­tem is dis­armed at an unusu­al time, you’ll know about it imme­di­ate­ly.

3) When there’s a fire, flood or temperature change.

Your home secu­ri­ty sys­tem can be inte­grat­ed with sev­er­al sen­sors for added safe­ty and secu­ri­ty. These sen­sors can detect smoke, flood­ing water in your base­ment or freez­ing tem­per­a­tures, which put your pipes at risk of burst­ing. Your alarm sys­tem can noti­fy you of these events so that you can take action at the first sign of dan­ger.

4) When motion is detected in a protected area.

Motion detec­tors add extra pro­tec­tion in areas of your home that are espe­cial­ly valu­able, sen­si­tive or dan­ger­ous. Exam­ples could include a home office with impor­tant doc­u­ments or a room with valu­able antiques. You can set your home secu­ri­ty sys­tem to sound the alarm when motion is detect­ed in these spaces and alert you when it hap­pens.

5) When a door to a safe, cabinet or closet is opened.

Most home secu­ri­ty sys­tems use door con­tacts on the exte­ri­or doors to detect when some­one enters the home. But con­tacts can also be inside the house. For exam­ple, you can install con­tacts on a safe, a cab­i­net for stor­ing firearms or any room in your home. Ide­al­ly, each of these spaces will also be secured and locked. But if some­one attempts to break through, it can trig­ger your alarm sys­tem and noti­fy you.

6) When your child has arrived home from school.

When you’re busy at work, you don’t always have time to call your child to ensure they return home safe­ly from school. Sim­i­lar­ly, teenagers are not always the best at remem­ber­ing to call or text their par­ents when they come home. Thank­ful­ly, your home secu­ri­ty sys­tem can do this for you. You can set the sys­tem to auto­mat­i­cal­ly noti­fy you when your child returns from school every day.

7) When a protected asset has been tampered with or moved.

Did you know you can pro­tect indi­vid­ual items in your home and whole rooms? Com­mon exam­ples include safes, valu­ables, fam­i­ly heir­looms or dan­ger­ous weapons. Spe­cial sen­sors enable you to detect when such items are moved or tam­pered with. If it hap­pens, you’ll receive a noti­fi­ca­tion on your phone so you can take action imme­di­ate­ly.

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