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Choosing the Right Keypad for Your Alarm

By Ryan Bell / September 11, 2024 / Comments Off on Choosing the Right Keypad for Your Alarm

In our post on Smart Security System Design, we discuss several of the choices alarm customers must make. Additionally, we also discuss the pros and cons of several of these options. For example, customers must decide whether to install a hardwired or wireless alarm. Moreover, they also have to determine which types of sensors fit their…

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Home Office Security Tips

By Ryan Bell / September 6, 2024 / Comments Off on Home Office Security Tips

Whether they work from home for their day jobs or simply want a place to take care of your their most important tasks and part-time ventures, more and more homeowners have added home offices to their houses. These spots create an invaluble place to stay task-oriented, with all required technology and work-related items at the…

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Making Your Alarm as Effective as Possible

By Ryan Bell / August 29, 2024 / Comments Off on Making Your Alarm as Effective as Possible

When it comes to securing your home, very few measures do as good a job as a monitored security system. These alarms create a siren response upon activation that lets you — and anyone who tries to break in — know that someone’s been caught in the act. Additionally, a monitored alarm also creates a…

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Securing the Bedrooms in Your Home

By Ryan Bell / August 22, 2024 / Comments Off on Securing the Bedrooms in Your Home

When it comes to creating complete home security, we prioritize some areas more than others. We base this emphasis on a couple of factors. For example, rooms with valuables get extra attention during our security audits. Moreover, rooms where we need to focus on life safety also receive extra care. One area of a home…

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Unique Alarm.com Security Benefits

By Ryan Bell / August 16, 2024 / Comments Off on Unique Alarm.com Security Benefits

If you’ve read our blog at all, you know that we’ve long recommended people install a monitored burglar alarm to secure any home. Doing so creates multi-layered security in the case of a life safety or burglary-related emergency. For starters, an activation creates a siren response to alert anyone at home to the danger. Moreover,…

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Residential Lock Security Tips

By Ryan Bell / August 7, 2024 / Comments Off on Residential Lock Security Tips

When it comes to securing your home, locks provide the first line of defense against intruders. Good locks can make it much more difficult to breach your property. Additionally, many thieves will abandon a break-in attempt before they would do something as conspicuous as breaking in through a window. Unfortunately, homeowners do not always maintain…

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Window Security Sensors

By Ryan Bell / August 1, 2024 / Comments Off on Window Security Sensors

At Northeast Security Solutions, we know every one of our customers’ homes deserves special attention when designing a security system. Every application brings its own security challenges, and we always work closely with homeowners to address these concerns in a way that fits their security needs, meets their expected security experience, and works with their…

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Door Security for Your Business Beyond Locks

By Ryan Bell / July 29, 2024 / Comments Off on Door Security for Your Business Beyond Locks

When we work with our commerical customers, we often surprise them with the variety of solutions we provide to help them secure their perimeter. In particular, we place quite a bit of emphasis on creating effective door security. After all, the majority of break-ins involve coming through a door rather than smashing through a window…

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Smartphone-Based Security

By Ryan Bell / July 18, 2024 / Comments Off on Smartphone-Based Security

Over the last decade or so, consumers have come to expect to control many of their electronics through the use of their smartphones. This trend has ranged from televisions to refrigerators and many products in between. As you can expect, our industry has gotten tugged into this trend as well. After all, our security solutions…

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Anticipating Threats to Your Alarm System

By Ryan Bell / July 12, 2024 / Comments Off on Anticipating Threats to Your Alarm System

Last week, we reviewed some of the Unexpected Benefits to Alarm Monitoring. In that post, we share some of the unlikely ways that a monitored security system can provide you with added security and peace of mind. This week, we take a slightly different approach to anticipating the unexpected when it comes to your alarm.…

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