Home Security and Protection

If you're like most of us the security of your home and family is front and center in your mind. There are many different home protection devices, security systems and home burglar systems available on the market today. I'll try to give you a basic look at as many of them as I can in this article. Let's start with home burglar and security systems.

Many of these systems use PIR (Passive InfaRed) motion detectors as the base or even all of there system. PIR motion detection uses sensors that can pick up the difference between a persons body temperature and the background temperature of the surrounding area. You can buy PIR motion detectors in both wired an wireless configurations. They work well indoors and out and can be used for many different applications such as swimming pool alarms, driveway alarms or indoors to monitor a room. When used as a home burglar system it's best to combine them with door and window alarms as well.

Door and window alarms come in a wide variety also. There are both portable and fixed, wired and wireless, and range from the affordable to quite expensive. Most of these units work by creating an electrical circuit that, when interrupted, triggers a siren. Some manufacturers also make a glass breakage alarm. When someone breaks, or even hits the window, a motion sensor triggers the alarm. Fixed window and door alarms are, by nature, not particularly flexible. They can only be used where they are installed. On the other hand the portable units are quite versatile. They can be moved from place to place and serve many different functions such as a travel alarm or an office alarm. Some even double as personal alarms as well.

Now let's take a look at some home protection devices. The first line of defense in your home are your doors. A door brace can make it almost impossible for anyone to open your door,it installs easily, and is very affordable. Let's face it, if you're using one of the systems above and it's going off, someone's already inside your house. This device extends from the knob to the floor and blocks the door from opening. Many can also be used on sliding doors. If you do nothing else to improve the security of your home I would recommend that you get a door security brace for all of the exterior doors of your house.

Another vulnerable area of a house are the windows. The above systems will not detect the window being broken, they only alert you when it is opened. For this there is a glass breakage alarm. The old fashioned kind used a thin wire stuck to the window with an adhesive film. Today there are small units that stick to the window and detect motion so when anyone breaks or even hits the window it's sensed. These could also be used on sliding glass doors.

Another home protection device is an electronic dog. When these units first came out they where not very realistic but today some of them sound like the real thing even changing volume, pitch and intensity as the intruder comes closer. They work by radar wave technology and can sense someone approaching up to 21 feet away even through doors and walls.

Only you can know your comfort level and budget but I would suggest using a combination of several of these home burglar systems and home protection devices to achieve the maximum protection for you and your family. If money's tight you can make your home much more secure for about what you would pay one of the big monitoring companies for just a month or two.

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Mark Strong, I'm 49 years old and loving life with my wife in Ohio. We hope the information and products that we provide can give people a sense of security and peace of mind in a time when both seem to be greatly needed. www.AffordableStunGunPlus.com/homeprotection.htm

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