> I always thought the most important thing about home security alarms is calling the police
Having my house visited once while I was away and twice at night when I was there, I'm now prepared. The two times I was there, I make the bad guys run away but I still don't know if they knew I was there or not and what their plan was.
So now I take no risk and I've got an amazing alarm system.
To me the most important is that the alarm makes it physically impossible for the thieves to steal much. My alarm system gives the thieves 45 seconds to give a password (and they don't know it). If I'm under duress, there's a "I'm under duress" password and the security company will answer: "Fine, have a good night" while they actually call the police. So the thieves cannot know.
If no password is given, after 45 seconds a smoke fills the entire house. It already triggered, worked wonders. It leaves no trace once it dissipates.
With the smoke the thieves cannot steal anything. They certainly don't have the time to find the safe / open it.
The game becomes: "Without seeing anything (due to the smoke), find the door to flee the house before the police arrives".
That's what I love with this alarm system: it turns the thieves into preys.
It's communicating over several channels (as an anti-jamming system). It's got its own battery.
It also detect break-ins attempts, before the thieves are even in: the sensors detect the vibrations and it works (one day I let my hammer drop and that was sufficient to trigger one of the sensor).
Having my house visited once while I was away and twice at night when I was there, I'm now prepared. The two times I was there, I make the bad guys run away but I still don't know if they knew I was there or not and what their plan was.
So now I take no risk and I've got an amazing alarm system.
To me the most important is that the alarm makes it physically impossible for the thieves to steal much. My alarm system gives the thieves 45 seconds to give a password (and they don't know it). If I'm under duress, there's a "I'm under duress" password and the security company will answer: "Fine, have a good night" while they actually call the police. So the thieves cannot know.
If no password is given, after 45 seconds a smoke fills the entire house. It already triggered, worked wonders. It leaves no trace once it dissipates.
With the smoke the thieves cannot steal anything. They certainly don't have the time to find the safe / open it.
The game becomes: "Without seeing anything (due to the smoke), find the door to flee the house before the police arrives".
That's what I love with this alarm system: it turns the thieves into preys.
It's communicating over several channels (as an anti-jamming system). It's got its own battery.
It also detect break-ins attempts, before the thieves are even in: the sensors detect the vibrations and it works (one day I let my hammer drop and that was sufficient to trigger one of the sensor).