At Northeast Security Solutions, we take a proactive approach when creating security plans for their homes. This includes designing security for their own unique home and property layout. Furthermore, we also work to make sure their experience using their security equipment matches their expectations. Finally, we also have to prepare for any upcoming security threats that come down the road. Some of these threats are cyclical in nature, such as seasonal security concerns. Several months ago, our post on Securing Your Home Against Winter Weather looks at some winter-specific threats and how you can secure your home against them. In this post, we shift our attention to seasonal security threats that relate to our current position on the calendar. Today, we’ll share some valuable spring and summer security tips for your home!
First, we’ll explain what makes securing your home during this time of year difficult to begin with. This will provide a good background for the rest of the material in this post. From there, we’ll look at some great tips to help our alarm customers create added spring and summer security. Specifically, we’ll discuss installing environmental sensors to detect and alert you to weather-related issues at your home. Then, we’ll shift our focus to a couple tips to get your home ready for the extended absences that often spring up during this time of the year. This section will include a section detailing our powerful interactive alarm monitoring services. Additionally, we’ll also detail some smart home appliances to help secure your home while away. Now, let’s dive in with a look at the difficulties facing those looking to add spring and summer security.
What Makes Spring and Summer Security Difficult?
With the changing of the seasons comes both warmer weather and extended hours of daylight. This combination creates more comfortable and effective conditions for burglars to plan and execute break-ins. At the same time, spring brings about the prospect of empty homes as families start planning on warm-weather day trips, or even extended trips and vacations, as seasonal activities ramp up and traveling conditions improve. Traditionally, this combination of comfortable temperatures and vacant houses spells security danger. Of course, we have ways to help fight these issues as well. Now, let’s get started with a look at how adding environmental sensors to your security system fits into our security preparations for spring and summer weather.
Environmental sensors provide important security by monitoring your home for weather-related emergencies.
Adding Environmental Security
Most alarm customers think of their security system as a tool to lower the risks posed by break-ins and fires. Obviously, these threats deserve addressing when we design any alarm system. However, we surprise many people by offering alarm sensors that offer security above and beyond burglary and life safety equipment. We also offer sensors that create alerts for environmental disasters that have the potential to cause a home 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” detectors can create a central station response if your home 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 we begin to see rainier, warmer weather on a regular basis, these sensors certainly increase in value. As an added bonus, some of our alarm manufacturers even create sensors that detect both extremely cold temperatures and the presence of water! These contacts, such as the one pictured, provide a huge amount of environmental security in one compact piece of equipment. Obviously, this adds year-round security to help secure your home against multiple weather-related threats. Now, let’s turn our attention to securing your home in your absence this spring and summer.
Preparing for Extended Absences from Home
As the weather heats up, so do the social and seasonal activity calendars. Spring sports begin, as well as beach trips, weekend warm weather-getaways, and even vacations over spring break. Obviously, getting out of the house as the warm weather rolls in feels great after the cold of the winter! However, these increased absences can also increase your chance of experiencing crime at home. In this section, we’ll check out a couple ways that we help customers address this danger. Let’s start with an explanation of our most effective and popular alarm monitoring service.
Interactive Security Monitoring
When we create alarm monitoring for our customers, we prefer to do so through our cellular dialer, powered by Alarm.com. This type of monitoring provides multiple benefits. For starters, cellular dialer-based monitoring stays active even when your phone service fails. This differs from traditional, phone-line based alarm monitoring, which gets interrupted during phone outages. Furthermore, your cellular dialer can add convenience and security above and beyond providing a reliable communication path.
In our post on Using Your Smartphone to Add Security to Your Alarm, we discussed the generational expectation that customers can control their electronics with their smartphones. Our interactive cell dialer powered by Alarm.com allows users to arm and disarm their security systems remotely using the Alarm.com smartphone app. This proves especially useful during trips you and your family take this spring. Forget to alarm the security system on the way out the door? Now you can fix this issue with the push of a button. Furthermore, interactive alarm monitoring also allows you to grant access to house sitters or contractors in your absence without giving them your alarm code. Next up, let’s take a look at one more of our security preparations for spring that can keep your home secure in your absence.
Installing Alarm.com Cameras allow you to monitor your home with efficient Wi-fi based cameras that don’t require the equipment and wiring that traditional surveillance installations require.
Smart Home Security Appliances
Although they represent one of the newer additions to the security industry, smart devices have quickly become a prevalent part of home security. Our Alarm.com customers can install smart devices that connect to our cellular dialer’s Z-Wave smart home receiver. The term “Z-Wave” refers to a mesh network providing communication between our Alarm.com cellular dialer and smart home devices that operate on this network. As one of the most popular smart home platforms, Z-Wave technology gives you many options to add smart security devices. Our customers control these smart home appliances with the same Alarm.com app that they use to control their security systems.
For starters, Alarm.com smart cameras allow you to check in on your property in real time on your phone. This can give you “eyes” in your home, on your yard, and even on your driveway at all times, without interruption. Moreover, these cameras also store a months’ worth of motion-based video clips in the cloud for future viewing. On a related note, our Alarm.com video doorbells provide a unique level of door security. These devices allow you to review both real time and recorded video, just like standard Alarm.com smart cameras. Additionally, they also allow you to have a 2-way conversation with anyone at the door.
In addition to exterior smart security, we also offer interior smart devices that add both security and convenience. For example, smart lights allow you to turn your lights on and off and even dim them remotely. This can add security by making your home look occupied in your absence, while also allowing you to always return to a well-lit home. Smart locks can also let you track access to your home, and even control your locks, remotely as well. These smart security appliances add both convenience and security in the springtime and all year round!
Putting our Spring and Summer Security Tips to Good Use
We hope that this post helps you add valuable spring and summer security to your own home. As you’ve seen, this time of the year brings about unique security challenges for us to help you take on. As always, we 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. Additionally, we also encourage you to take advantage of our complimentary site survey program. We’ve long offered complimentary site surveys and equipment quotes to both new and existing customers alike. While on site, we can address any and all security concerns you may have. Moreover, we can also make suggestions of our own based on observations of your property we make during our visit. We can help you create a whole-home security plan that gives you the security and user experience you desire. Together, we can help you secure your home over this spring and summer, as well as the rest of the year for many years to come!