When most homeowners think about home security they envision a person dressed in black, with a stocking hat covering their face attempting to climb in through a window of their home. The truth is, home security is more about prevent loss and damage to the home than it is about catching the person who ambled into the home and took off with all the stuff from inside. In reality, most burglars work alone and cart off only what they can carry, since most of them will not be parking their car in your driveway. Jewelry and small electronics that they can sell are the items most often stolen during a home burglary.
However, when considering adding a home security ge alarm most homeowners seldom think about the other disasters that can claim their home such as fire or flood. They probably have working smoke detectors but during the time when no one is home to hear the smoke alarms sounding their alert, the first can be in full force before a neighbor or someone passing by notices the smoke curling out the windows and calls the fire department.
Add to that the potential for a broken water line to spew water all over the basement or another room in the house and it can run for hours before someone gets home and realizes there is now a swimming pool where the living room used to be and all the furniture and belongings look they were recently unloaded from the Titanic. There were also the commercials not long for the woman talking about how they fell and could not get back up and this completes the picture of many things that are possible with a home alarm system.
With the main focus being on stopping burglars in their tracks with a high-pitch local audible alarm and a dialing system that sends a message to an alarm monitoring company, there are other sensors that can be included in an alarm system to send out a notification for other disasters in the home. Instead of relying on local smoke detectors, which work wonders when the family is sleeping, fire alarms can be installed in the home and notification sent out to send the fire alarms in case a fire breaks out when no one is home.
Other sensors that detect a sudden drop in water pressure can be installed to indicate there is a major water leak or sensors placed on the floor in utility areas that set off an alarm if the water starts rising to alert the homeowner or another designated responder that there is water trouble brewing in the home. When these type of disaster strike, it can be a lot worse than losing a few personal items to the hands of a thief.
Medical emergencies rarely offer a person enough time to call an ambulance and if they are still conscious may not be able to reach the phone to dial 9-1-1.
