Keeping your family and your home secure takes more than just locking your doors. Here are our tips for protecting your home and property from break-ins.
1. Start with the basics
Make sure you lock your doors, but don’t stop there. Learn how to secure your windows, garage door, and outdoor entry points like gates and fences to make sure they keep intruders out. Close your curtains or blinds at night to keep people from seeing into your home, and ensure valuables are tucked away.
2. Upgrade your locks
For new homeowners, it’s especially important to change your locks to ensure you can control access to your home.
If you’re still using a key to get in and out of your front door or keeping a spare key under the doormat, consider a smart lock. Smart locks can be controlled remotely or with a PIN or fingerprint, making it easier to let in trusted visitors and block potential bad actors.
Alarm.com’s smart locks can tell you when a specific person unlocks the door based on their unique code. An Alarm.com-powered system, professionally installed by your service provider, can provide additional features like proactive reminders to lock your door and can even integrate with your video doorbell. By using a smart lock plus a video doorbell, you can visually verify visitors whether you’re at home or away, then let them in remotely.
Alarm.com’s smart locks can trigger other devices in your home as part of a smart home security system. When you leave the house for work in the morning, locking the front door can also turn your lights off, arm your security system, close your garage door, and adjust the settings on your smart thermostat to help you save energy.
3. Upgrade your lighting
If you’re wondering how to protect your home from intruders, an additional step you can take is adding adequate lighting outdoors to help deter would-be burglars who strike in the middle of the night. Alarm.com’s automated outdoor lighting, triggered by image sensors or smart security cameras, ensures intruders have nowhere to hide.
Our advanced Video Analytics can trigger your home’s smart lights in response to specific moving objects, focusing on humans and vehicles, not just animals or tree branches. You can choose what areas the camera should watch, then decide what will trigger the light.
Inside your home, setting up a timer—or even better, smart lights—can make it seem like you’re there, whether you are or not. Alarm.com can trigger specific lights in your home based on what your cameras see, turning on additional lights for human intruders, for example.
4. Install an alarm system
Homes without security systems are three times as likely to be burglarized, and the majority of would-be burglars check for the presence of an alarm system before attempting to break in.
Your professionally-installed security system can alert you to everyday risks, like a garage door that was left open or an unlocked window. An Alarm.com system can also protect you proactively by alerting your central monitoring station about any suspicious activity and having a trained security professional assess the situation before dispatching first responders.
With Alarm.com home security and connected security cameras, important events are stored in the cloud to access anytime from any device—which makes protecting your home easy, saves you time, and provides added peace of mind.
5. Stay connected
Once you have smart security devices installed, make sure they work for you by staying on top of what’s going on at home. A professionally installed Alarm.com security system can send you notifications about unexpected activity at home, like kids coming home from school too early, or the garage door opening in the middle of the night.
Our Unexpected Activity notifications can be triggered by a range of sensors you can place around your home, including contact sensors on doors and windows and motion sensors in areas that may be hazardous for kids or pets.
Alarm.com’s Perimeter GuardTM feature also uses Video Analytics to notify you when people unexpectedly enter your property. The system deters suspicious or unwanted behavior with a combination of sound alerts and flashing red LEDs, targeted at humans and not just branches blowing in the wind.
6. Keep up appearances
When you’re out of town, who’s watching your home? While you may have a neighbor picking up your mail and taking out your trash and recycling, Alarm.com can manage the rest of your home security with smart lights, cameras, and customized alerts.
Keep tabs on incoming deliveries without interrupting your vacation by using an Alarm.com video doorbell. Alarm.com’s all-in-one app saves clips of your delivery, or other visitors, for later viewing with Highlights from your video cameras... no need to watch hours of video to see what arrived on your front porch. Video Analytics make it easy to see exactly what you need, whenever you need and from wherever you are.
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