Homes are known to be the safest place in our daily lives, but due to uncertain and uncontrollable circumstances we all need to take some serious measures to secure our home. For example, robberies are a common occurrence in town. Burglaries or robbery seem like random acts increasing day by day. But there is an easy way to help prevent criminal intrusion i.e. by installing alarm systems.

Burglaries take place in the homes which are unoccupied and have easy access to enter. Make you house less prone of an open target for burglars by installing any type of home security system. Getting a right kind of security alarm is one of the biggest factors while purchasing for the first.

If you are trying hard to figure out on the type of security system you want to install, let me inform you there are two basic types of security alarms – Monitored Security Systems and Traditional Security Systems. Given below you can find out the differences between these two different types of security systems.

Differences between Traditional and Monitored Alarm Systems

• In a monitored security system, monitoring the alarm is done 24/7. In case if the alarm is tripped then the homeowner gets a call from the alarm company and will ask for personal identification number. In case the call is not answered or the personal identification number is wrong they will immediately send the police at your home to figure out the exact problem.
• With the traditional security system the alarm will be set off if it is triggered by a wrongdoer and except for your neighbours no one else will be alerted. This is something that most of the homeowners do not like; the alarm may get triggered by someone who actually lives in the home. Therefore the neighbours usually ignore these alarms and do nothing if someone actually breaks in.
• Monitored security systems can directly connect you to the local emergency medical authorities. This type of security system can offer great peace and can be a real safety, as you are aware within a press of a button medical authorities will be on their way. This feature is best especially with the elderly persons.
• In addition to this, monitored security systems have a similar button used for the event of a fire. Once you manually push-button the fire alarm, your local fire department will get alert and will dispatch their team to come to your home. Your local fire department will also get alert in case it is activated by smoke or carbon monoxide leakage.

Monitored alarm systems is affordable, it has immense popularity due to its low price. Therefore in compare to traditional security system, monitored security systems has nicely addressed each of above mentioned issues even if you are at home or gone out for a vacation.

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Fire alarms can protect your property from any damage by fire by triggering alarms to alert the occupants of a building. Timely intervention can definitely save lives and can also reduce damage to property. But what will happen if there is no one in the building or around it to hear the alarm?

In such cases, alarm sounds will not be able to alert any one on time and a lot of damage can be caused to property. If you have elders who take medication that involves sedition or any of your family members’ hearing is impaired, they will be at risk as they will not be able to hear the alarm. Monitoring services can prevent such situations.

Fire Alarm System Monitoring Services

These are professional centres that monitor your alarms for you. These monitoring services are provided by alarm companies through their own call centres or by special security agencies that monitor security alarms as well as fire alarms. Small companies and agencies outsource this to individual call centres set up for monitoring services only. Whatever be the case, a 24*7 monitoring service is provided throughout the year.

The alarm when triggered send a signal to these monitoring agencies and they contact the fire departments and police stations within thirty to sixty seconds. Thus, the action taken by these services in your absence will be much faster than any action taken by your neighbours who can only notice the fire once it has spread significantly.

The connection to the monitoring agencies can be made through traditional phone lines, cellular phones or radio frequencies. Traditional phones are not very reliable as the phone set or its wiring can get damaged in fire. Cellular phones are better but they involve more cost as compared to the radio frequency method. You can also opt for a combination of two services to be on the safe side.

While selecting a monitoring agency, it is useful to look at their resources. They must employ trained staff who can understand the nature of emergency. Also the monitoring station should have adequate back up like a stand-by station or generator back up to take care of power shortages. This will ensure that you get their services at all times.

Monitoring Your Own Fire Alarm

Other than the monitoring service, it is important that you keep a check on your alarm. Regular maintenance is essential to keep the system running. Dust and smoke particles can block the detectors in an alarm and will come in way of effective sensing of fire in emergencies. Hence, you must clean your alarms with gentle vacuum.

Test buttons are provided to regularly check the alarm. You can check whether the batteries are functioning by pressing the test button and this will enable you to replace batteries at the right time. In any case, a battery must be replaced at least once in a year and an alarm should be replaced every ten years.

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Hello and welcome back to the self proclaimed greatest wireless home security alarm system review site.  Today we are going to delight and enthral all of you wonderful readers with an insightful post detailing the GE 51107 alarm review from good old General Electric.  Aren’t you a lucky bunch!?

So, what do you get for handing over your hard earned cash for this little machine?  Well it comes with a nice alarm for your door that is controlled from a four digit keypad; you also are presented with 3 separate alarms for your windows.

One thing that did please us when we opened up the box was the thin installation instructions.  Now, we know what you may be thinking, you are probably asking yourself why the manufacturer has spent so little on the instructions.  Well the answer to this is due to the fact that the device itself is so easy to install!  No need to get your drill out and no need to do any electrical wiring to set this thing up.

This is always a plus point, yes the readership of this site will more than likely understand the basic concepts of wiring and drilling but devices such as these are required for the elderly too that may not have the knowledge or physical ability to do such tasks.  The easier it is to install the better all round.  We just wish that alarm manufacturers would use that as their mantra as some alarms are just plain complicated to install, even to us!

Luckily for everyone this kit is a simple mount on the wall job using the tape and screws included.  All batteries are included in the package too and come with a low battery indicator to make sure you don’t run out of juice at an un-opportune moment.

In addition to this the alarm itself is a piece of cake to use.  All buttons are laid out perfectly so even the fattest fingers can grace them without error.  It also has a nice modern design look and feel to it too.

Let’s talk about the alarm itself.  As you will know by now, Cool Home Security are big fans of “the louder the better” mentality when it comes to the alarm sirens.  The GE 51107 Smart Wireless Home Security Alarm System Kit packs a fair punch clocking in at nice120 decibels (enough to wake you and the neighbours up) that will give any sneaky thief a fright when it goes off.

That’s the thing here people, homeowners forget about what makes a good alarm.  Yes it must be reliable, that is a given.  But we see many people paying too much attention to settings and options on alarms that won’t make much of a difference anyway.  Before you buy any alarm from a store, you have got to at least ask for a listen before you spend your money.  If the alarm systems siren doesn’t make you jump then keep on looking until one of them does.

If it is not going to frighten you when you expect the noise, it certainly isn’t going to frighten a seasoned thief.  Think about it, you need to put the jumps on any scumbag breaking into your house, you need to make them think that they have been rumbled and need to get out of the area before the police bust down the door and cuff their sorry asses!

That reminds us of a story of a good friend, I will warn you now however, this story doesn’t have a happy ending.  Last year a man we know who shall go un-named was retiring for the night in his home on the west side of London, he had taken off his slippers and sipped the last of his Horlicks and tucked himself away for a nice cosy sleep.

The next day he woke from the alarm he sets to go to work.  Once he jumped out of bed he realised that he could also hear the siren for the new alarm system he had bought.  He then decided to walk downstairs to discover that the entire house had been ransacked and the siren on his alarm never even woke him up!

The thief who committed the heinous crime still remains at large and this has cost our friend an obscene amount of money in lost goods.  When we were told about this incident, we were obviously a little sorry for this to happen to our friend but a little part of us did think “Told you so!”.  What great friends we are!  But yes, can not stress it enough, get your alarm siren to be as loud as possible, who cares if it annoys your neighbours?  At least you will know that when it does go off you will at least be able to hear it.

Ok, where were we?  Oh Yes the GE 51107 alarm review that’s right!  We defiantly think that this is a quality alarm, it is cheap, loud and easy to install.  Ticks the right boxes and actually looks quite modern and fashionable too.

If you are looking for a wireless home security alarm system that is affordable and will make the intruders jump out their skin then we advise you to give this product a try.  We score the GE 51107 alarm review a gracious 7 out of 10.

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