Home Security: How Safe Is It?

Before the rise of smart­phones and portable tablets, home secu­ri­ty sys­tems worked in a tra­di­tion­al way. A two-way voice mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem was installed at the home. If the home were to be bro­ken into, the alarm com­pa­ny would react, send­ing the police and noti­fy­ing you via phone. Nowa­days how­ev­er, things have changed. Changes in smart­phone tech­nol­o­gy and the intro­duc­tion of tablets allow you to do so much more on the go. Secu­ri­ty sys­tems now allow you to con­trol your home mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem from wher­ev­er you are to when­ev­er you want. These mod­ern sys­tems allow home own­ers to turn their sys­tems on or off, deter­mine the radius of the house to mon­i­tor and check in to see who entered the house. Over­all, these sys­tems now allow home own­ers to see direct­ly into their hous­es, see­ing what the secu­ri­ty cam­eras see. These new fea­tures give par­ents, home own­ers and trav­ellers peace of mind while they’re away for long peri­ods of time because they know that they can check in at any time. The ques­tion here how­ev­er is with all this new tech­nol­o­gy, does that make our homes safer or put them at a high­er risk? In oth­er words, how safe is our home secu­ri­ty now that we can take it on the go?

Look­ing at both sides, we can see that con­trol­ling our home secu­ri­ty sys­tem and check­ing into our house at any­time from any place does pro­vide us with some form of peace of mind. How­ev­er on the flip side, there is the pos­si­bil­i­ty of these devices being lost or stolen. Even if these devices are lost or stolen, that does not nec­es­sar­i­ly mean that our homes are at risk of being bro­ken into.

With the changes in tech­nol­o­gy also comes an increase in pro­tec­tion soft­ware and fea­tures to help you pro­tect your most prized infor­ma­tion. You can place pass­words, acti­va­tion codes or lock cer­tain infor­ma­tion on these devices, pro­vid­ing an added pro­tec­tion and keep­ing them away from pry­ing eyes. Also, you don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly need to install the home mon­i­tor­ing App on all devices. Keep­ing it on one device allows for the infor­ma­tion to be stored in one loca­tion, mak­ing it eas­i­er to man­age while also allow­ing you to pro­tect your home on the go.

For those home own­ers who still don’t trust home mon­i­tor­ing sys­tems, there are many ben­e­fits to hav­ing one then leav­ing your house unpro­tect­ed. Pri­mar­i­ly, bur­glars avoid rob­bing hous­es where an alarm secu­ri­ty sign is present. In addi­tion, secu­ri­ty cam­eras and fea­tures are now much more dis­crete and hid­den, allow­ing for them to mon­i­tor your house while being out of sight. Fur­ther­more, being able to see inside your house allows you to keep an eye on your house while trav­el­ling, instead of ask­ing a neigh­bour to do so.

To answer our ear­li­er ques­tion, our home secu­ri­ty sys­tems are much more safer now that we can take it on the go. It pro­vides the home own­er with the pow­er to deter­mine what to mon­i­tor and if so, pro­vides noti­fi­ca­tions of any sus­pi­cious activ­i­ty. Not only can you mon­i­tor your home secu­ri­ty sys­tem on the go, but you can also now cus­tomize it to fit your lifestyle. An added ben­e­fit that was­n’t there before. When it comes to home mon­i­tor­ing sys­tems, the best thing to do is to ask your secu­ri­ty com­pa­ny ques­tions before get­ting one installed. There is no way to pro­tect any­thing 100% but a home mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem is your best defense to pro­tect­ing your home.