Okay, so are for protecting your home from a burglary, and home automation is for making your life more convenient, right? Well, not entirely. The line between the two is beginning to blur. now play an important role in helping you prevent your home from being burgled, especially when you’re away on a holiday. How do they do that? Read on to find out.
Take a look at some of the most popular tips to prevent a burglary when you are away. One of the most popular tips that everybody seems to be giving you is to make your home look lived in. Now if that tip is repeated so often, it’s for a reason. Burglars keep an eye out for empty homes, and making it look like you are home is undeniably the best way to deter the miscreants. Now gone are the days when you could ask your friendly neighbor to pick up your newspapers every morning or take a walk through your lawn a couple of times a day just to make it look like someone’s home. Everybody has demanding jobs these days and neighbors may not have the time to make your home look lived in. This is where home automation comes in.
Didn’t the experts tell you to leave a couple of lights on, and probably the television, too? Well first of all, leaving the television on for a couple of weeks simply doesn’t sound like a solution. Secondly, don’t assume that the burglars didn’t read those tips. If there is a light that’s on 24/7, they will know that it’s a ploy. If you have a sound , however, you have control over all of the lights, televisions, radios, and anything else in your home from no matter where you are. You might be lying on a beach somewhere in the Bahamas, sipping a Pina Colada, and turning your lights and even television back home on and off at will. Now that is sure to deter any burglar. And just to make the entire setup even more tamperproof, your alarm system stands on guard if a burglar still attempts to proceed with the intrusion.
That’s the amazing thing about teaming up with home automation to give you all-round security cover for your property. The biggest names in the home security industry today offer cutting-edge technology in alarm systems, video surveillance, and CCTV monitoring as well as home automation – all in a wonderful package deal that comes completely synchronized and in absolute harmony. So enjoy your holidays while your inner layout of the home automation/alarm system keeps your home protected at all times.
Kris Murphy
Author – Kris has been learning the ropes, but already has 4 years of industry experience working with us. He is in charge of researching our security system reviews and putting together new content for our site’s blog section.