Home security is a relative concept. In places without legal ownership of private weapons, citizens live inside walled compounds or layers of bars to protect themselves from armed intruders who will maim and pillage at will. Home security used to rely upon personal armaments, body guards or security guards. New trends in technology are affecting security product consumers, law enforcement and criminals alike.
Security Cameras
One of the mainstays of home security, security cameras are proliferating in the private sector. The advent of wireless technology allows home owners and business owners to set up security cameras anywhere that send images back to a router, often to an offsite server that stores the images long term. You can avoid the hassle of security tapes by plugging an IP camera into your computer or a DVR. You can also buy dummy security cameras to deter potential thieves or provide them with an easy target while bringing their faces into range of the real security camera. Bullet cameras, once limited to street corners in dangerous neighbourhoods, are now available from shops around the country for less than $200.
One of the flip side technologies to the wireless security camera is the wireless camera detector. These detectors will listen for the wireless video or audio broadcast of a wireless camera or bug, helping you locate and disable them. There are not yet recorded cases of nannies using camera detectors to find and turn off nanny-cams, you can be certain that enterprising thieves will start using devices like this to find and disable your wireless security cameras. Connect the security camera to dual path signalling alarms so that you can forward images of suspicious activity wirelessly if the phone line or DSL cable has been cut.
GPS
Geographical Positioning Systems or GPS rely on a network of satellites in orbit to determine your location. GPS has become commonplace in cars through systems like OnStar, helping them determine where they are and get directions to where they want to go. GPS devices are installed on employer provided vehicles so that employers know where their assets are. GPS devices have begun filtering down into spy shops and private hands. This creates a legal gray area for consumers. One spouse may put a GPS tracking device on the car and find out where the other partner is going. GPS devices are sometimes used by parents to track the whereabouts of teenagers. GPS devices are also being used by stalkers to find out where people are. The flip side is the rise of the GPS jammer. The humorous stories of union members and delivery men using the GPS jammer to be able to take their lunch break at the nude girls bar is a harsh contrast to the criminals who use GPS devices to evade court imposed limits on their travels and drive somewhere other than work. GPS devices have become life savers when someone is ill or injured and cannot tell rescue workers where they are located.
Wireless Everything
Criminals have known for years that if you cut the phone line, you probably cut off all communications to the house. Cell phones make the communication cut-off less severe, but cutting utility lines and phone lines will disable most home security systems' communications with the central monitoring centre. Fortunately, shifting to wireless security systems solves this problem. However, you get better reliability by using dual path signalling alarms that can use broadband or GPRS.
Dual path signalling alarms can send alerts via the phone line or wirelessly, ensuring that you can signal for help whether the phone line has been cut or a wireless jammer is being used. Dual path signalling alarms give you an automatic redundancy in communication methods, often for little or no additional cost. If you have a wireless security system, install dual path signalling alarms to ensure that you can call for help via the phone land line if the power is out.
Security Cameras
One of the mainstays of home security, security cameras are proliferating in the private sector. The advent of wireless technology allows home owners and business owners to set up security cameras anywhere that send images back to a router, often to an offsite server that stores the images long term. You can avoid the hassle of security tapes by plugging an IP camera into your computer or a DVR. You can also buy dummy security cameras to deter potential thieves or provide them with an easy target while bringing their faces into range of the real security camera. Bullet cameras, once limited to street corners in dangerous neighbourhoods, are now available from shops around the country for less than $200.
One of the flip side technologies to the wireless security camera is the wireless camera detector. These detectors will listen for the wireless video or audio broadcast of a wireless camera or bug, helping you locate and disable them. There are not yet recorded cases of nannies using camera detectors to find and turn off nanny-cams, you can be certain that enterprising thieves will start using devices like this to find and disable your wireless security cameras. Connect the security camera to dual path signalling alarms so that you can forward images of suspicious activity wirelessly if the phone line or DSL cable has been cut.
GPS
Geographical Positioning Systems or GPS rely on a network of satellites in orbit to determine your location. GPS has become commonplace in cars through systems like OnStar, helping them determine where they are and get directions to where they want to go. GPS devices are installed on employer provided vehicles so that employers know where their assets are. GPS devices have begun filtering down into spy shops and private hands. This creates a legal gray area for consumers. One spouse may put a GPS tracking device on the car and find out where the other partner is going. GPS devices are sometimes used by parents to track the whereabouts of teenagers. GPS devices are also being used by stalkers to find out where people are. The flip side is the rise of the GPS jammer. The humorous stories of union members and delivery men using the GPS jammer to be able to take their lunch break at the nude girls bar is a harsh contrast to the criminals who use GPS devices to evade court imposed limits on their travels and drive somewhere other than work. GPS devices have become life savers when someone is ill or injured and cannot tell rescue workers where they are located.
Wireless Everything
Criminals have known for years that if you cut the phone line, you probably cut off all communications to the house. Cell phones make the communication cut-off less severe, but cutting utility lines and phone lines will disable most home security systems' communications with the central monitoring centre. Fortunately, shifting to wireless security systems solves this problem. However, you get better reliability by using dual path signalling alarms that can use broadband or GPRS.
Dual path signalling alarms can send alerts via the phone line or wirelessly, ensuring that you can signal for help whether the phone line has been cut or a wireless jammer is being used. Dual path signalling alarms give you an automatic redundancy in communication methods, often for little or no additional cost. If you have a wireless security system, install dual path signalling alarms to ensure that you can call for help via the phone land line if the power is out.
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