Thursday, October 6, 2011

Top 10 things to consider when buying a home alarm system

Top 10 things to consider when buying a home alarm system

In this day and age, investing in a high quality home alarm system is an imperative. However, with such a wide selection to choose from, making the right choice can often seem overwhelming. We provides the following tips to help make this process a little easier.




1. User-friendliness, Any home alarm system have to be basic enough to use while you are away from home, and much more importantly, while you are at home and at your most vulnerable.
2. Multiple stay functions, Your home alarm system must be able to be simultaneously activated or deactivated in various areas of your home.
3. Reliable response, Be sure that you have a reputable company responding to your home alarm system and do a monthly test to make sure it is working properly.
4. Standard compliance, Any high quality home alarm system must meet the minimum local SAIDSA(South African Intruder Detection Services Association) and European quality standards.
5. Creep resistance, The system’s detectors should have good creep facilities to be sure intruders can’t crawl past undertected.
6. Clockwise Technology Incorporated , Alarms should incorporate CloakWise technology in order to guarantee effective performance even while intruders attempt to mask discovery.
7. Pet immunity, Pet immunity is a helpful function, but it should only be incorporated in a maximum of one room in your home, as more could leave you vulnerable.
8. Inside and out, External perimeter detection provides early warning in the event of a beak in, making it just as important as internal alarm. Any sound alarm system should have both.
9. Price, You can’t put a price tag on the safety of you and your family. As such, your decision shouldn’t be driven by price alone, buy the best home alarm system you can afford.
10 Battery life, With the proclivity of power outages, battery backup and standby time are an intaegral part of any well functioning home alarm system, The minimum industry standard is six hours.

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