Creating Interior Home Security with Your Alarm

As a complete security integrator, we’ve long touted burglar alarms as one of the most powerful forms of security. These systems create a blaring onsite response to an activation. If monitored, they also create a central station response that can lead to a police dispatch if necessary. The combination of an immediate onsite notice to a breach and a visit from the authorities makes installing a burglar alarm a great decision for any property owner. Additionally, alarms also provide some unexpected ways to secure against other threats. While most customers who install this security do so to secure their home’s exterior against a breach, we provide a variety of products to secure the inside of your home as well! In this post, we show you how we can help with creating interior home security with your alarm.

First, we’ll show you some equipment that can add invaluable life safety to your security system. This includes adding detection against a couple types of life-threatening disasters. Then, we’ll review a few sensors that can detect the presence of weather-related threats. Finally, we’ll shift our focus to adding sensors in unique locations to detect activity in important areas around the home. Now, let’s get started with a look at adding life safety to your alarm!

Adding Life Safety to Your Home

As we mentioned, installing home security can provide detection above and beyond the threat of thieves. In fact, we place life safety first and foremost in our list of priorities when designing an alarm. What do we mean when we say “life safety?” Glad you asked! Monitored equipment that detects and alerts you to the life-threatening emergencies described in this section fits the bill. Instead of creating a police response, our monitoring station can also get the fire department to your home if needed. Let’s look at a couple types of equipment that can make this happen when you need it most.

Smoke and Heat Detection

When it comes securing your home, we always have to prioritize fire security. Obviously, a blaze in an empty home can completely destroy your house. Even more importantly, a fire can take the life of you or a family member as well. In this article, the National Fire Protection Association (of “NFPA” for short) points out that roughly 80% of U.S. fire deaths occur in the home. Therefore, preparing for these emergencies goes  a long way towards creating interior home security. We strongly recommend taking some common-sense steps to create some fire-related security. Creating a fire escape plan, testing smoke alarms, and purchasing fire extinguishers can certainly help in this department.

Additionally, installing monitored smoke and heat detection can increase this security perhaps more than any other single measure. We offer detection that connects to your existing alarm panel. In turn, your alarm can create a fire department response upon detecting either smoke or temperatures that indicate the possibility of a fire in your home. This can save your home and even save a life if a fire begins in your house! Therefore, we consider adding this detection our top tip for creating interior home security. Let’s look at another life-threatening home occurrence and how you can secure against it.

Carbon Monoxide Detection

Carbon monoxide, the “silent killer,” sits right at the top of the list of life safety threats we wish to secure against. This gas presents itself in the presence of burning fuel. Vehicles, lanterns, gas ranges, fireplaces, and appliances make up just a few potential sources of CO. While building up indoors or in an enclosed area, carbon monoxide proves especially dangerous. When victims of CO poisoning breathe in too much of the gas, the CO replaces the oxygen in their red blood cells. Tissue damage and even death can follow once this occurs.

Similarly to our monitored smoke and heat detectors, our monitored CO detectors can also create an important central station and fire department response to the presence of CO in your home. Due to the unexpected nature of fire and CO-related emergencies and the seriousness of the event itself if something does occur, we strongly recommend adding this monitored life safety equipment. Now, let’s show you how environmental alarm sensors can aid in creating interior home security!

Installing Environmental Sensors

Of course, the events described above are just a couple of the many disasters that can happen to homeowners. When it comes to threats to your property, Mother Nature presents quite a few ways to do damage. This rings especially true during this time of year, when we experience spring thaw-related flooding threats as well as rainy and stormy weather. Luckily, we can provide security sensors to cover the interior of your home from these dangers. We surprise many people by offering sensors that create alerts for environmental disasters that have the potential to cause major damage. These sensors can help you detect and address these issues before they create a mess that takes a significant amount of time and money to repair.

For example, our “hi-lo” temperature sensors can create a central station response if your property experiences dangerously hot or cold conditions. This can help alert you to frozen pipes or HVAC equipment failures. Additionally, we offer flood sensors that can detect the presence of water wherever we install them. As an added bonus, some alarm manufacturers even create sensors that detect both extremely cold temperatures and the presence of water! These contacts provide a huge amount of environmental security in one compact piece of equipment. Now, let’s turn our attention to adding security contacts in areas that many people fail to address.

Using Security Sensors Creatively

As you can probably imagine, we install door and window sensors on exterior doors and on vulnerable windows as requested by customers. From there, however, we can also spruce up your security by adding sensors inside your home as well. You may have rooms or other important areas that you wish to secure as well. For example, you may wish to add sensors to office doors, gun safes, closets, liquor cabinets, or any other important areas of your home. We can program these sensors specially so that you have to disarm them separately from the rest of your alarm. Therefore, you can disarm the majority of your alarm while still securing these sensitive places within the home.

Furthermore, we can also create unique responses to activation of specific sensors. For example, you may want an alert, but not a police dispatch, if someone opens a jewelry box. We can create this security for you! If desired, you can receive a text alert or phone call for these events without the possibility of an escalation from there. This flexibility makes adding interior alarm sensors one of our top means of creating interior home security.

Putting it All Together and Creating Interior Home Security

We hope that this post helps you with creating interior home security. Additionally, we encourage you to contact us with any questions this post may raise for you. Over our 36-plus years in business, we’ve helped over a thousand customers create the home security experience that best suits their needs. 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. During our visit, we can address any and all of your security concerns. Furthermore, we can also make suggestions of our own based on observations of your property. Together, we can create a complete security plan to keep your home as safe and secure as possible, inside and out!