| There are several reasons that more and more | | | | because new state of the art wireless |
| people are choosing to have a security system | | | | components are battery powered and use radio |
| installed in their homes but one of the biggest | | | | signals to communicate with the control panel. |
| factors is the rising crime rate. It seems that | | | | Don't worry about the batteries running dead, |
| more and more people are coming to realize that | | | | because they last up to three years and each |
| they are responsible for their homes security, | | | | component will signal the control panel when its |
| because local law enforcement is overloaded and | | | | batteries are running low. |
| the jails and prisons are full anyway. | | | | Home security systems are far more user |
| Having a monitored security system is just like | | | | friendly then they have ever been and using them |
| having your home watched by a security guard | | | | is cinch with a convenient key chain button |
| twenty-four hours a day and it is all done using | | | | activator. It looks like and functions just like the |
| state of the art technology, some of which has | | | | device on your key chain, that is used to operate |
| only recently been developed. The technology | | | | the alarm on your car or truck. There is even |
| that was used in home security systems just a | | | | new voice recognition technology that is available, |
| couple of decades ago would pale in comparison | | | | that allows you to give spoken commands to |
| to the level of technology that goes into todays | | | | your home or business alarm system. |
| systems. In fact, now a security perimeter | | | | Home security systems also now cover more |
| surrounding your home that reaches out | | | | areas of home security, such as fire and carbon |
| thirty-five feet can now be established, using | | | | monoxide gas detection. Many people are |
| state of the art motion and body heat detectors. | | | | unfamiliar with carbon monoxide gas, even though |
| This means that you no longer have to wait for a | | | | their gas heating system produces it every time |
| criminal to enter your home or business, before | | | | it is turned on. The fact is that its a deadly poison |
| your systems sounds the alarm. These high tech | | | | that kills people every year and if your system is |
| sensors are so accurate that they can easily tell | | | | broken it can leak into your home and kill you. |
| the difference between any animals such as dogs | | | | It has no smell, so the only way of detecting it is |
| and cats and a human, in any type of weather | | | | with a home security system equipped with CO |
| conditions. These same sensors are also used | | | | sensors. The benefit of a monitored system is |
| inside of a building to detect the presence of a | | | | that in the event of an emergency you are not |
| person after the alarm system has been set. | | | | alone and trained security person ell will be on the |
| Also, now wireless technology has made it | | | | phone with you and on the phone with the police |
| possible to have an alarm system installed without | | | | or fire department. |
| having wires strung about the house. This is | | | | |