Home Safety Through Awareness
By Nolan Mondrow
Home is your sanctuary from the rest of the world, where you should enjoy security and be confident with the safety of your family. But sadly, home invasion and burglary can be a real threat to anyone, with any income level and in any kind of neighborhood. By viewing your home through the eyes of a criminal, you will see that simple oversights can give criminals the green light into your home and your security. Awareness is the key to protecting your palace.
Burglars are burglars for a reason. They are scouring for ways to obtain money to fulfill their financial needs, minus honest work. The key here is to realize that criminals are looking to take the easy road, which in your home translates to an open garage door, an unlocked back door, or a cracked window. Like other areas of their lives, burglars do not want to spend a lot of time or energy gaining access to your home. By being aware of the most common ways that homes are broken into, you can prevent your own home from being the easy target criminals seek.
The most seemingly obvious way you can protect your home is keeping all windows and doors closed and locked, all the time. As easy as it sounds, most burglaries occur during the day, with effortless access being gained through unlocked doors or windows. If you live in a household with children, make sure to emphasize to them the importance of closing and locking doors and windows. Children live in a world of incognizant bliss, and cannot fathom unforeseen consequences such as a home invasion.
If you have the option, installing an alarm or video surveillance system to protect your home will provide great additional protection. Surveillance systems, with their accompanying decals for deterrence, can be set up to automatically contact the police department if you so desire. But keeping in mind the “easy access” mentality, the main benefit of having an alarm system is that criminals do not want to bother.
You may also consider protection inside your home, in case a burglar does gain access. Storing money, precious jewelry and other valuable, easily pocketed possessions in a safe will serve as an added barrier against theft. Experienced burglars know to go straight for the places that people commonly hide valuables, such as drawers, closets and jewelry boxes. So owning a safe, preferably a fireproof safe that is properly bolted to a floor or wall can prevent total loss if your home is entered by a thief.
Burglars do not only take your tangible possessions and money, but more devastatingly rob you of your sense of security at home. Being aware and taking action can alleviate you of worry and can ultimately prevent your home from becoming a thief’s next free for all.
Nolan Mondrow is the owner of Zurich Products, a leading provider of quality home security products, including the right fireproof safe for every need.
Customer Safety and Well Being: ADT Focus
By Julia Hall
ADT is the premier alarm company in the US and this is apparent for a number of reasons. For instance, no other home defense company will link you home up to five separate monitoring centers spread out across the country. This does several things. For one it ensures that you'll receive the help that you need even if the monitoring center nearest you is unable to respond. This is especially useful in the case of natural disasters. Just because a hurricane hits your region, that doesn't mean that your need for security goes away- in fact, as we've learned from the after effects of Hurricane Katrina, the need for precaution increases. With this, and other scenarios in mind, ADT Security wants to make sure that it can respond to your needs even if the monitoring center nearest to you is afflicted by the same emergency that you're dealing with.
Another benefit of ADT, is that it's always looking for ways to incorporate new technology into its services to help protect you even better. After all, burglars and other criminals are constantly innovating, and this company is devoted to staying one step ahead of them. One great example of this innovation is the fact that all of the components of ADT monitored security systems are linked together wirelessly. Not only does this innovation make the alarm system much easier and cheaper to install and eliminates unsightly wires, but it also makes the security system more resistant to tampering. Another benefit of innovation is the addition to infrared sensors that detect intruders based on their body temperature and as specifically tuned to ignore the heat signatures of animals.
One edge that ADT Home Security has over other security companies is something that's very simple: its reputation. The power of ADT's reputation has been documented repeatedly by the simple fact that he vast majority of professional criminals will go looking for an easier target when the see the unmistakable blue octagonal sign sitting in a front yard. One thing that it's important to point out is that there are probably far more instances of break ins being thwarted just by that sign than ever get reported!
One very valuable tool that ADT Security provides for all of its customers is a keypad that can be located in a central part of your home and performs a number of functions. It serves as a command center that you can use to arm the system to automatically sound an alarm when an intruder is detected. It also has a variety of buttons that you can press to summon the type of help needed for specific situations. For example, there's a button that you can hit in order to summon the fire department. There's one that you can press in case of a medical emergency, and there's a panic button that you can press if you know that there's an intruder in your house that got in while the system wasn't armed. The panic button will sound a loud alarm - which will probably scare the intruder off - and notify an ADT monitoring center that a break in has occurred at your home.
There are also plenty of ways that ADT can help to preserve your property. For example, you can have sensors installed that will alert you if the temperature in your home has dropped to the point where your pipes are in danger of breaking. In the event they do break, you can be alerted that there's flooding. Fire and carbon monoxide detection are also available.
All of these features and services clearly demonstrate that ADT Home Security is focused on your safety and well being.
This article is for consumers looking for information on home security systems. It provides a resource for finding ADT home security promotions, and any great ADT offers that are currently available.
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