When we work with customers to secure their properties, we take a whole-home approach. This means securing more than just what lies between your home’s walls, and extending security to your home’s garage and exterior. In particular, we aim to create a plan that helps you secure one of — if you the most — valuable possessions you own: your car. Unfortunately, many people adding security to their homes fail to take measures to secure their car. In this post, we share some tips to add security equipment for your car and driveway!
First, we’ll introduce you to some equipment that creates an audible alaert when someone approaches your home using the driveway. Then, we’ll review a couple alarm-related pieces of equipment that you can use to shore up your car and driveway security. Finally, we’ll look at the role that surveillance can play in securing the outside of your home. Now, let’s dive in by seeing how you can receive instant alerts to activity in your driveway.
Find Equipment That Alerts you to Driveway Activity
Cars in a driveway often make for an easy target for crime, especially at night. After all, even with people up and about in the house, these crimes often go undetected because nothing alerts the home’s residents to the activity in the driveway. Fortunately, homeowners can receive notification of driveway activity by purchasing some very simple equipment. Driveway notification systems, such as the Optex model pictured, can greatly help improve your home’s external security. Homeowners receive a few security benefits by installing this equipment. For starters, it can eliminate the aforementioned danger of someone approaching your car with ill intentions without you knowing about it.
A driveway alert system, such as this model by Optex, help alert you to anyone approaching your home.
Additionally, these detection systems greatly help people who work out of the home. People with home offices often have packages delivered right to the house for work purposes. Driveway annunciators can alert these individuals as their packages arrive. Furthermore, as we pointed out in our Home Security Tips for Holiday Shopping Season, these systems alert homeowners as gifts arrive at their homes after ordering them online. This can limit the time that valuable electronics or other gifts spend on the steps, vulnerable to “porch pirates.” Next up, let’s review some alarm-related security equipment for your car and driveway.
Alarm-Related Car and Driveway Security Devices
As complete security integrators, we try to recommend security that many customers often overlook. In particular, we find that many homeowners miss out on the chance to add vehicle-related security when desiging an alarm. Of course, we can chalk much of this up to the fact that many people do not know about some of the products we offer than can help in this important area. In this section, we’ll discuss a couple little-known security devices that help secure your vehicles.
The devices described in this section works with our Alarm.com cellular dialer to provide you the opportunity to use this security equipment for your car and driveway. This dialer provides a direct line of communication between you and your alarm, allowing you to use the Alarm.com smartphone application to control these devices. First, we’ll discuss how smart garage door control can add security to both your car and your home. From there, we’ll introduce a new piece of equipment that can help track your vehicle’s whereabouts if something does happen!
Smart Garage Door Control
Smart garage door openers provide a couple valuable security-related features. These openers allow users to open and close their garage doors remotely. Additionally, the Alarm.com-compatible garage door openers that we install also add unique features that tie into your security system! For example, this device can create alerts if the garage door is left open for a certain amount of time, or past a specific time of day. This makes it harder than ever to leave your garage door open over the course of an entire workday or a weekend away from the house. Additionally, you can also receive alerts when someone opens or closes your garage door. This helps you track activity around your home, and catch any unexpected activity immediately.
The Alarm.com Connected Car
Alarm.com recently unveiled their Connected Car device to add an impressive piece to their smart home-based security offerings. This device simply plugs into a car’s OBD-II port, and provides an impressive array of data to help secure your car. For example, this device will display your car’s location at any time. Furthermore, you can also track vehicle drive time and receive real-time alerts based on vehicle speed. Finally, you can also set up alerts for an array of other potentially-unexpected events. Specifically, alerts based on sudden bursts of accelaration or decelaration can alert you to potential emergencies or accidents. Moreover, receiving an alert that your car has moved without the engine starting can tip you off to the fact that your car is getting towed! This unique level of security makes the connected car plug-in one of our most powerful security offerings yet. Now, let’s look at how adding a surveillance presence to your driveway can add an additional layer of security.
Install Surveillance to Watch Your Car
Having equipment in place to alert you to driveway activity makes a great start towards improving car security at your home. In addition, consider adding equipment to give you “eyes” in your driveway at all times. Home surveillance systems provide just this security. If something criminal or even suspicious happens around your cars, you can review your camera footage to see what happened. In the case of a crime, this footage can also help bring those responsible to justice. Furthermore, the mere presence of cameras can act as a deterrent. Criminals scoping out homes will often move on quickly upon spotting surveillance cameras.
Alarm.com smart cameras add car and driveway security by allowing you to receive instant video alerts based on activity around your home.
Additionally, we can also connect exterior smart cameras to your Alarm.com app. This allows you to check on live and recorded video on the same app that you use to control and track the rest of your security devices. Additionally, you can even create notifications that send you live, instant alerts with video clips when your cameras detect motion. This gives you instant “eyes” on your property’s exterior whenever anything suspicous occurs! These features make Alarm.com cameras one of our most popular and effective exterior security alarm options.
Putting Our Security Equipment for Your Car and Driveway to Work for You
We hope that this post helps you see how we can aid your efforts in ading security equipment for your car and driveway. Additionally, we also encourage you to contact us with any questions the material in this post may raise for you. We will happily answer any and all of your security-related inquiries. Furthermore, 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 of your security concerns. Moreover, we can also make suggestions based on our own observations of you property that we make during our visit.
Perhaps you have a security plan and some equipment in place, but wish to take advantage of the suggestions made in this article. Or, maybe you have very little in the way of a security plan now, and want to get things started from the ground up. Either way, we are here to help! Over our 35 years in business, we’ve helped over a thousand customers design and implement security plans for their homes and businesses. Together, we can create a complete security plan to keep your home as safe and secure as possible, inside and out!