Alarms & Security

How Do Wireless Home Security Alarm Systems Work?

Owning a home is a wonderful feeling. It is your home you can do with it as you want. Decorate it. Make improvements to it. Alter the layout and configuration. You now have a place a place for your family to call their own and to keep your belongings.

Most homeowners feel secure in their home. The exterior doors have locks and dead bolt locks on them. Some homes have steel exterior doors. These things make the home more secure; however, not as well as you might think.

Insuring that the house, and the people inside of it, is protected is important. It doesn’t matter where the house is located. It doesn’t even matter if the home is in a rural setting. Any house that has no deterrent to someone breaking in and stealing or harming a family member is asking for trouble.

What can the homeowner do to protect family and assets?

Consider installing a home security alarm. In the past having a security system installed required having cables pulled all over the house. Having the installers drill holes in the wall cavity to pull wires to each door, window, and sensor in the house. You have to move your furniture out of the installer’s way. Even the most careful and thoughtful installer will still make a mess that you have to clean up.

There is now available to a homeowner a wireless home security alarm. That means that there doesn’t need to be wires all over the house for the system to work.

Wireless home security alarm, the easier way to protect your home.

The wireless home security alarm is still monitored around the clock. In the event of a break in or fire the monitoring company will call the police or fire department as needed.

The alarm will still sound off so someone knows that there is an alarm. This is great because if the loud alarm sounds and it will most likely send the intruder running away.

Wireless Home Security Alarm Options

With any new wireless home security alarm comes many options for the homeowner to consider.

Have alarm system secure the doors and windows.Installing glass breakage detectors.
Installing motion detectors in the major spaces in the house.Wireless security cameras around the perimeter of the house.Have the alarm system actively monitored?
Integrate the smoke / fire detectors into the alarm system.
Another significant décor item is the alarm interface panel. You will need to decide where to have it installed so that you have enough time to disarm the alarm system before it thinks you are an intruder.

Many new panels are nice enough that they won’t look cheap in the house. Consider the many options available and take some time to decide on what is best for the home and family.

A wireless home security alarm system offers home owners many different choices and options with minimal installation mess and hassle. Wireless alarm systems by their nature can be easily expanded and additional security devices added to the alarm system. A wireless home security alarm will give the home owner peace of mind and protect all assets including the most valuable thing in the house: the family.

By: Willhelm Williams

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Monitored Home Alarm Security Systems – Getting One For (Almost) Free

Today, it is possible to get a top-quality home security system for free — if you know how to play the game. The key is in finding the largest home security firm in your area that has their own monitoring capability. These top-performing, #1-installing firms will want to get their long-term revenue from the ongoing monitoring of your home and not from the equipment and installation. This is your opportunity to get a free system.

Here’s how it works

The major security companies cover their costs — and make most of their money –from large commercial customers. And once they have this monitoring infrastructure in place, the cost of adding new residential customers is very low — and very profitable. As a result, they are able to provide the hardware and installation labor at nearly cost — or even lower. They know that the profit is in the long-term monitoring revenues they can make from you.

To reach the residential customer — you — these monitoring companies will market their services through a network of independently owned and operated authorized dealers. These dealers, who have to maintain a high standard of quality to remain in the network, do most (if not all) of their work solely for the monitoring company. In addition, they buy all their equipment from the company — getting a pretty good volume discount. The monitoring company, of course, makes a profit on this too.

So here’s how you can benefit from the way these companies do business

Find the authorized dealer who does the most installations in your area. Look in the Yellow Pages, go online, and/or contact the local Chamber of Commerce.

Be direct and upfront: ask if there is a best case scenario where you can get the materials and labor for a low price — or free — if you agree to a multi-year monitoring contract with them. By the way, it helps if you have good credit — and can prove it.

Clearly, the smaller companies will not do this. The mom and pop operations work on tighter margins and sell a lower volume of installations. But the bigger dealers can afford to cut their margins when selling to you because they make it up in volume. And because the corporation, who will be getting your multi-year monitoring contract, also have an incentive to subsidize a low-cost system in your home. It’s like getting a free razor — the manufacturer knows you’ll be buying their razor-blades for a long, long time.

It’s a win-win-win situation You get a free or nearly free installation The authorized dealer makes a profit on the materials and the labor The monitoring company gets a long-term customer and the opportunity to market their services to other prospects in your area and in your circle of friends.

A couple of additional thoughts:

This works best with the dealers who do the most number of installations in your area — not necessarily the mom-and-pop operations.

Also, you will be required to stay with the monitoring company for an agreed-upon minimum period of time — say, a couple of years. Of course, the monitoring company is hoping you’ll stay with them indefinitely — if for no other reason than simple inertia. But they’ll start with a fixed term.

Oh and did I mention that the monitoring company gets to put a nice big sign in your yard and window decals all your windows? That’s a win-win too because studies have shown that the signs and decals — just by themselves — will cut the likelihood of a break-in by a substantial fraction.

Conclusion

So, if you’re in the market for a monitored home security system, look for the best performing authorized dealer in your area and then play the game to your advantage.

By: Ara Rubyan

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For more info on monitored home alarm security systems, visit Ara Rubyan’s Home Security Systems.

Ara Rubyan is not a part of the home security system industry, nor does he sell home security systems, nor does he pretend to be a guru of any kind. Instead, he is like you: a consumer, a business owner, and someone who has been researching the industry so that he could make an informed decision about the best home security system for his needs. Now, he’s put all his research (so far) in one convenient location and he’s sharing it with you, no strings attached.

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