Alarm Equipment to Add Garage Security

Over our 36-plus years in business, we’ve installed over a thousand monitored burglar alarms to secure customers’ homes. These alarms work to alert anyone at your home to a potential emergency. Additionally, the blaring siren response created by an alarm activation also often scares intruders away in the case of an attempted break-in. Finally, the connection between the alarms we install and our central station can also creates an emergency dispatch. Depending on the cause of the emergency, this could send the police, the fire department, or an ambulance. Moreover, modern alarm technology allows us to secure more of your home than ever! Today, we’ll look at one of these often under-secured areas of the house. In this post, we’ll show you some of our most effective alarm equipment to add garage security.

First, we’ll review how you can secure the perimeter of this very important area of your home. Then, we’ll detail a couple smart security products that can tie in to your alarm. Smart home products are known to add convenience where installed, and they can also add valuable security as well. From there, we’ll shift our focus to installing some non-burglary related alarm equipment. Now, let’s dive in with a focus on securing your garage’s perimeter!

Installing Exterior Alarm Sensors on Your Garage

Recent alarm technology has made it easier than ever to secure even the farthest reaches of your property. However, until recently, securing garages proved troublesome. Standard wireless security contacts have limited range to begin with, and over time, their range diminishes. This can lead to frustration, as alarm contacts lose communication with their security system panels. In these instances, homeowners must deal with frequent trouble signals from their alarm systems. Furthermore, they also have to deal with a lack of security wherever these contacts are installed.

Fortunately, recent technology improvements have allowed us more flexibility with the installation of wireless sensors. One of our preferred security provider, DSC, has created long-range Power G wireless door and window sensors. This allows us to secure doors and windows that even a few short years ago we wouldn’t have secured. In fact, we can now install these sensors on detached garages with no transmission problems at all. Finally, we can even install wireless sensors that secure your garage bay doors as well. These sensors, called “tilt sensors,” detect the opening of a garage door. These perimeter sensors represent some of our most useful and popular alarm equipment to add garage security. Let’s check out a couple smart products that we also recommend to our customers!

Utilizing Smart Security Solutions

One of the most valuable aspects of any alarm we install lies in our monitoring service. This service involves connecting your security system to our central station. In turn, this connection allows your alarm to “call” for help upon detecting a break-in. At this point, the proper authorities get dispatched if necessary. Traditionally, we create this connection by connecting a property’s existing phone lines to the alarm. However, recent years have seen major upgrades in your options for alarm monitoring.

Our preferred monitoring method involves installing a cellular dialer. These devices use a dedicated cell network connection to communicate with your alarm’s central station. Therefore, phone outages will no longer interfere with your alarm’s monitoring. Furthermore, our cell dialer powered by Alarm.com provides it own unique benefits. For example, our Alarm.com technology allows you to control your security system with your smart phone. This includes the ability to arm and disarm your system remotely, as well as receive text alerts for status updates such as alarm events and low batteries.

Last but not least, our cellular dialer also acts as a Z-wave smart home hub. The term “Z-Wave” refers to a mesh network providing communication between the hub and smart home devices that operate on this network. As one of the most popular smart home platforms, having a Z-wave hub in place gives you many options to add smart security devices! Let’s look at a couple of the most popular smart security devices now.

The Smart Camera Advantage

Our smart camera customers experience several unique security features. Like any cameras, smart cameras provide the ability to both deter crime and to help you solve any crime that occurs on your property. Additionally, smart cameras also provide many benefits that traditional security cameras do not. For example, these cameras can send a live video notification to your phone upon detecting motion. This allows you to check in on any issues you may experience in real time.

As an added bonus, our Alarm.com smart cameras also feature the power of video analytics. This allows your cameras to recognize the difference between motion caused by a person, an animal, or a vehicle. In turn, this makes it easier for you to create effective video searches when looking to find video of a particular event. This means that you can create notifications if a person or vehicle approaches your garage. However, you can have your cameras skip sending you live footage of your dog running around the yard while you’re at work! The security and flexibility these cameras provide make them an invaluable piece of alarm equipment to add garage security.

Garage Door Equipment

When it comes to securing your cars, nothing tops the security that comes from adding smart garage door devices. We can turn any garage door into a smart garage door by adding the right hardware — such as Alarm.com’s garage door equipment — to your existing garage door opener. This adds several different security features to your garage door. For starters, it allows you to open and close the garage remotely using your phone. This alone adds tremendous security.

Furthermore, a smart garage door system will also create an alert when someone opens or closes your garage door. If you did not expect this action, now you’ll know immediately and have the ability to investigate. Finally, you can also create certain “rules” around garage door use to add security. For example, you can have your garage door close 15 minutes after someone opens it. This means that even if you forget to close the garage, it won’t stay open all day. Now, let’s look at some security measures that address non-burglary related security concerns.

Adding Non-Burglary Related Security

Up until now, we’ve focused on catching thieves, vandals, or other criminals approaching your garage. However, garages face other security threats worth addressing as well. These range from life-threatening fire and carbon monoxide emergencies to damage from weather-related events. Luckily, we can install devices that interact with your existing security system to secure you against these dangers! For example, we offer monitored heat and carbon monoxide detectors as part of any security system. These detectors will create a siren response in your home to alert you to a fire starting in your garage. Additionally, our detectors’ sensing the presence of smoke or carbon monoxide will create a response from the local fire department. The life safety offered by these devices make them a powerful garage security add-on to any monitored alarm system.

Taking Advantage of Our Alarm Equipment to Add Garage Security

We hope that this post helps you choose the best alarm equipment to add garage security for your own application. As always, we also encourage you to contact us with any questions you have after reading this post. We will happily answer any and all or your security inquiries. Moreover, we also invite you to take advantage of our free site survey program. We offer complimentary security audits and equipment quotes to both new and existing customers alike. While on site, we can address your garage security, as well as any other areas of your home that concern you. Together, we can create a complete security plan to keep your home, your valuables, and your family as safe and secure as possible!