Cost-Efficient Home Security

When we work with customers to create home security, we take several things into account. Of course, each and every customer has their own unique layout to secure. No two homes are alike, and we need to plan our security accordingly. Additionally, customers also have their own preferred security experience. Some customers prefer a simplified user interface, while some want all the bells and whistles. Finally, everyone also has their own security budget. Of course, we do not recommend choosing cheap products that will fail to meet your security needs. However, we often surprise customers by supplying them with modern, effective security at price points even better than that of older technology that can take longer to install. In fact, some equipment even triggers discounts that can create long-term savings! Today, we show you some cost-efficient home security measures that will add security to your home without breaking the bank.

First, we’ll show you the latest and greatest in wireless alarm technology. Installing the right alarm system can save us time and energy, therefore saving you money on your installation! From there, we’ll review some security devices that can trigger an insurance discount for you. Often, these discounts can more than make up for the up-front cost of installing this security, allowing you to make money to better secure your home! Finally, we’ll discuss our most effective and efficient monitoring option in the form of our Alarm.com interactive services. Over the past couple decades, this has certainly turned into our most popular monitoring offering. Now, let’s dive in with a look at how we can help you take advantage of modern security technology.

Taking Advantage of Modern Security Technology

When we install security products, we do so with a couple important goals in mind. Of course, security always comes front and center in our list of priorities. However, we can create both maximum security and maximum efficiency at the same time. Using the latest and greatest security technology allows us to do so. For example, installing wireless alarm contacts, rather than hardwired devices, lets us create a complete security system without you paying us to run wiring. Our preferred security system, the QOLSYS IQ Panel 4, creates a completely wire-free installation by containing the alarm’s control board, keypad, and siren in one easy-to-install unit! Installing this panel can help save customers money with effective, modern industry technology.

Across the board, using modern technology can create added security and savings. Installing devices that use Wi-fi connections instead of hardwired internet connections, for example, can help save on labor costs. We often connect burglar alarms and cameras to your internet as a means of communication to our central station and even directly to our customers. Therefore, Wi-fi-enabled security can save you money in the same way that wireless alarm contacts can. In general, modern technology products often prove less expensive than their traditional counterparts. As the security industry finds more efficient means of production, consumers win out as they get savings passed along to them. Now that you’ve seen how modern security equipment can drive down cost, let’s turn our attention to installing cost-efficient home security equipment with potential savings from your insurance company!

Installing Devices that Create Insurance Breaks

We surprise many of our customer by helping them find insurance breaks for using our security products. However, we do offer services that do just that. For example, did you know that having a monitored security system often triggers one of these discounts? Many companies pay you back for installing a burglar alarm that will create a police dispatch! After all, this helps secure the very items you hire these companies to insure.

On this same note, installing monitored fire detection can get you similar rewards. In fact, adding monitored life safety equipment often pays itself back very quickly after taking insurance rewards into account! Finally, installing monitored environmental sensors can add one more level of important security and savings. These devices detect dangerous conditions on your property such as frozen pipes, the presence of water in your basement, and extreme high and low temperatures. Many of our customers take advantage of this security at little to no cost. Thanks to insurance discounts, some find it even less expensive to add this security than to skip it! Now, we’ll see how the security monitoring you use can also help in your quest to find cost-efficient security measures.

Using the Best Alarm Monitoring Available

Traditionally, alarm monitoring options come as an “a la carte” service. Starting with basic phone line monitoring, customers can then add additional services that each increase your overall monitoring cost slightly. For example, customers that have our basic alarm services may add on different features throughout the years. Customers with phone-line based monitoring may graduate to cell-dialer based monitoring. They may eventually want the ability to know which codes were used to disarm the security system, and at what times. Perhaps they may wish to receive alerts if nobody disarms the security system at their shop in time to open. We can provide all of these services to customers at a cost, with that total cost adding up as they take on additional services.

Luckily, we have a solution that takes the most popular alarm monitoring add-ons and rolls them into one convenient solution. Our interactive alarm monitoring, powered by Alarm.com, gives you tremendous security monitoring power. It all starts with installing our Alarm.com cellular dialer. This device uses a secure connection to a cellular network to monitor your alarm. This lets you cancel your phone line if you’ve been holding on to it just to monitor your security sensors.

This service also takes the place of alarm usage reports and alerts. It does so by providing instant notifications when someone arms or disarms the security system. You can also create alerts when expected arming and disarming events do not happen. This covers the scenario described above, where a business owner wants an alert if nobody shows up to open on time. Finally, our interactive monitoring lets you control your security system with a smartphone app. Therefore, if you forget to arm your security on the way out the door, now you can fix this issue with the press of a button! This level of security make our Alarm.com interactive monitoring easily our most popular monitoring option. Furthermore, the inclusion of all these features in one monitoring service makes it cost-efficient as well.

Putting Our Cost-Efficient Home Security Tips to Work for You

We hope that this post helps you create cost-efficient home security for your own household. Additionally, we also encourage you to contact us with any questions this post may raise for you. We will happily answer any and all of your security-related inquiries. Moreover, we also invite you to take advantage of our free site survey program. We’ve long offered free security audits and equipment quotes to both new and existing customers alike. While on site, we can address any and all of the security concerns you may have. Furthermore, we can make suggestions of our own based on our observations of your property.

Perhaps you’ve already thought about adding some home security, and wish to take advantage of the measures discussed here. Or, maybe you haven’t considered security much in the past, and wish to get off on the right foot. Either way, we are here to help. We have 37-plus years of experience helping  homeowners increase their security using a variety of approaches and solutions. Together, we can create a complete plan to keep you, your valuables, and your family as safe and secure as possible!