In contemporary society, we travel often. We take time from our day to day lives to visit friends and family across the country and the world. We travel cross country to sell widgets or establish new connections. Whether traveling for work, visiting family out of town, or simply eating a meal out with friends, “homebody” is not a word most people use to describe themselves in this day and age. We rove, we seek, we move.
Fortunately our constant access to broadband and WI-fi keeps us connected to each other more than ever before. Because of home security systems as well as whole home automation, home owners need not chew their nails with nervousness about break ins, fires, or other home disasters while we are away.
Whether you are on a minimal security budget or make security your top priority when spending the following mobile security options aim to keep your home safe.
Skype: A completely DIY method to setting up home security is allowing an open Skype chat to run all day on your computer. This method only works for small apartments with a single entrance point. However, something is better than nothing. You can monitor you space for suspicious sounds and keep an eye on that locked door.
AtHome Camera: Better yet apps like AtHome Camera allow users to turn their webcams into inexpensive closed circuit monitors. You can stream video, and time monitors to record certain times of day (Want to catch your neighbor peeking in your window everyday at 2 pm? You can record it happening). You can also set the app up to record when motion is detected, to capture an intruder’s image for authorities.
D-Link Cameras: D-Link provides a broad line of security cameras designed for tasks as diverse as home surveillance and watching your baby sleep soundly. The D-Link Wireless Day/Night Network Surveillance Camera offers a night vision option on the portable camera. Users may check in on their feeds via the mydlink app or at mydlink.com.
Pulse: ADT Pulse provides comprehensive mobile access to standard ADT security services. Pulse offers robust security options including standard ADT burglary monitoring as well as the ability to arm and disarm the home system with the flick of a finger. The security system also a direct connection protection services in case of fire or flood. Homeowners are notified by ADT’s service center in case of emergency as are appropriate rescue personnel.
Mobile security apps like Pulse provide a heightened sense of control and security of our domiciles. Pulse is a mobile app supported by ADT, whose products and services may be read about in more detail at http://securitychoice.com.
AT&T Digital Life: AT&T Digital Life also offers homeowners a comprehensive home automation package which includes security monitoring as well as the ability to lock and unlock doors remotely from a smartphone. AT&T Digital life offers these security provisions in addition to other home automation features like thermostat control and energy use monitoring.
Our homes mean everything to us. We invest large parts of our lives saving the money to buy and decorate these homes. We invest love into our home by creating memories. Remote security monitoring allows us to move around confidently. We always have access to status of the safety of our homes.
A good read! Can you recommend an inexpensive do-it-yourself home security system with options? I am a home invasion victim, hospitalized for five days while my home was vandalized. Money is tight as my 1998 pension has not kept pace with inflation and home repairs are sill incomplete. Thanx; NM
This stuff is like from a sci-fi movie, its amazing where we have gotten with technology.
Remote security monitoring is such a great invention.Monitoring the home all the time is not possible thing for a busy man.With the skype connected to internet our home would be under our surveliance for all time.
This stuff is like from a sci-fi movie, its amazing where we have gotten with technology.
This is really useful post. What are popular brands and is there any easy to implement solution ready available?
Its amazing what can be achieved at a relatively low cost these days. Some of the surveillence techniques you mention here would not have seemed an option for normal domestic users until recently and it shows how far this technology has advanved.