Keep Track of Your Great Outdoors

From the cold and snowy winter months to the warm and sunny summer months, your backyards offer you a chance to get outside of the house and enjoy nature with privacy. Yards also bring a new set of security challenges for your household, such as unwanted visitors like critters or trespassers.

Make sure you have the strongest, most flexible home protection, so you can enjoy your own great outdoors securely and without worry.

Check in on the kids with one tap

As a kid, it’s exciting to play in the backyard, whether playing tag with friends or creating an adventure with the imagination… it’s like having a private mini-playground. While you want your kids to enjoy all the yard time they can get, they still need supervision.

In fact, although only 19% of parents had safety concerns for their children, 63% of all summer-related injuries occurred in kids ages 2-11. So, if you have outdoor equipment like trampolines or monkey bars, make sure your kids are being supervised.

Smart video monitoring allows you to keep a watchful eye on your kids from anywhere in your home. Customize your alerts to focus on people or specific areas of your property, so you can make sure you’re in the know wherever your kids are playing around your yard.

Pools are the perfect way to stay active throughout the year, but keeping kids and pets safe near the water poses extra concerns. Since you can’t be everywhere at once, installing an alert-generating contact sensor on your pool gate will ensure no one’s sneaking into the pool area without your knowledge. You’ll get a notification as soon as someone opens the gate.

Keep your BBQ safe and fun

Nothing beats an afternoon neighborhood party on the weekends, but you might need some help watching the kids while you grill the burgers.

Between 2012-2021, children younger than 10 accounted for 21% of emergency department visits for grilling-related injuries. So, don't leave your grill unattended, and keep children and pets away from it. If an accident does happen, your home security system is able to contact emergency services immediately.

Shut the front door on package thieves

As you may be traveling for a much needed vacation, make sure your deliveries arrive safely when you’re not home. Stay in total control of your front door with a touchless video doorbell.

Video doorbells have increased in popularity over the past couple of years because of their versatility and broad range of uses. As soon as someone is detected at your door, you’ll get a mobile alert, and the doorbell will start recording a video clip. This means you’ll always know when a delivery has made it to your front door.

Bumps in the night?

On cool evenings, there’s nothing more soothing than listening to the soft breezes blowing in from the outside yard… until you hear a noise you don’t quite recognize. With an outdoor camera, you’ll be able to see if it’s a curious animal digging through your trash or a trespasser walking through. You’ll also receive real-time alerts from your backyard security cameras.

Video analytics helps you avoid any unnecessary and unwanted alerts from your security system. With Alarm.com video cameras, your security system can tell the difference between people, animals, and vehicles. Leverage your security system to notify you about cute animals, such as bear cubs playing at night, in your front and backyard, or set your system to not notify you about animals when you are home.

Add smart security-camera triggered lighting to turn your video cameras into virtual backyard security guards, keeping watch over your yard and reacting to specific threats. Customize how you want your outside lights to turn on depending on what your camera picks up. And set up smart video alerts through Video Analytics to catch would-be prowlers in the act.

Alarm.com's Perimeter Guard^TM can also deter potential intruders with loud whistles, beeps, and a flashing red LED, ensuring that any person with malicious intent knows they’re on camera. Enjoy peace of mind knowing that your security system is proactively deterring intruders even when you can't be there. 

Keep track of everything beyond your perimeter

While weekends bring us some time to relax, they also offer time to catch up on yard work. With a battery-operated, wireless sensor, you’ll be able to stay connected to everything you own, like your lawn mower—even beyond your home’s perimeter.

If you’re wondering how to keep thieves out of your yard or asking yourself “what can I put on my fence to stop burglars,” we have a solution.

Our Flex IO ^TM sensor works in places that don’t have power or an internet connection—and delivers customized, real-time alerts, so you can keep an eye on everything you own, even in the dead of night.

Flex IO is weather-proofed for the outdoors, meaning it can withstand any season. And with its 2+ year battery life, it’s built to last.

Because Flex IO extends beyond the reach of traditional security systems, the monitoring possibilities are limitless. It features a magnetic reed switch, loop input, and relay output to accommodate a wide range of use cases, so you can receive real-time alerts whenever:

• Doors or windows are opened and closed (or left open)
• Perimeter gates are accessed
• Freestanding items are moved (just connect magna-pull sensors to the built-in loop input)
• The device is tampered with

No matter where it’s installed, Flex IO can seamlessly integrate with the Alarm.com platform and upgrade your home protection.

Ensure your safety with proper yard and home protection from Alarm.com Connect with your nearest Alarm.com service provider and they can help you stay aware all year long, so you can focus on what matters most—enjoying every minute of fun in your backyard.