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Home Alarm Systems To Protect Your Home While You’re Away

Home Alarm Systems To Protect Your Home While You’re Away

Your home’s security is important to you, whether you’re at home watching a movie or away for two weeks on family vacation.  Whatever the case, you want your home protected 24 hours a day, seven days a week from potential intruders as well as other home-related emergencies.  Fortunately, a home alarm system can provide the defense and safeguarding you are looking for when it comes to monitoring the safety of the people and place you care for most in the world.

Every home alarm system comes with three points protection.  This system ensures that your home is protected at three different entry points into the home.  Should any of these entry points be forced, your alarm is immediately triggered.  Whether you’re home or away at work, this system is working 24/7 to protect your home and family.

For better protection while you’re away, the home alarm system also comes with infrared motion detectors.  These detectors work to detect activity in your home.  If you have pets, you can actually set their weight and height into the system so that they can move freely throughout the home without triggering the alarm.

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A Brief History Of The Home Alarm

A Brief History Of The Home Alarm

We live in pretty high-tech times.  There are home security systems so advanced that they can identify a person by their fingerprint or voice.  Of course, most people don’t use or even need such an elaborate system of protecting themselves and their property.  But even the common home alarms used these days seem complex compared to what our ancestors might have used.  That’s not to say that these ancestors didn’t take measures to protect their homes.  The most basic home security technique, the guard dog, has been around since ancient times.

Home alarms as we know them today (that is to say, not animal) can be traced back to systems of bells, gongs, and chimes that were developed to sound if an intruder entered a home, although the first electric alarm was not invented until 1852.  This home alarm was designed in Boston by a man named Edwin Holmes.  It used electromechanical tripwire technology to set off a gong using a three-dimensional coil called a solenoid.  This alarm was simple but introduced a conept that is still important to modern alarm systems: using loud noises to draw attention to a break-in site and scare burglars away.

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