| Just like so many other things in this day and age, | | | | that is available if you want it. With voice |
| the technology in home security systems has | | | | recognition technology, you can give your alarm |
| gone through huge advancements. It was the | | | | system commands with your spoken word, such |
| early nineteen-seventies when security companies | | | | as when to turn on or off when you are coming |
| such as ADT began to offer alarm and security | | | | and going at your residence. Ultra sensitive |
| systems for your home that the technology | | | | micro-sensors have completely revolutionized |
| began to develop. Back then, a home alarm | | | | todays alarm systems and you would be amazed |
| system consisted basically of door and window | | | | at all that they can see, even in the dark. Using |
| sensors connected to a loud alarm box that was | | | | infrared and motion detectors that can tell if |
| mounted somewhere on the residence. | | | | something warm is moving you can now have a |
| Of course you have seen on TV and the movies | | | | thirty-five foot invisible security perimeter |
| how the burglar or international spy could bypass | | | | established around your home. With this security |
| the alarm system with a simple pair of wire | | | | zone in place, you don't have to wait for |
| cutters and you always thought that it just | | | | someone to reach your home before the alarm is |
| couldn't be that easy. Unfortunately back then it | | | | sounded.You would think that system like that |
| really was that easy and there were even easier | | | | would be plagued by false alarms from things |
| ways to bypass alarm systems back then such | | | | such as cats and dogs but this just isn't the case. |
| as simply turning off the power at the breaker | | | | This is because these sensors are so finely |
| box or any one of a number of methods. Todays | | | | calibrated that they can differentiate between |
| home security and alarm systems are far more | | | | animals such as those and people.Everyone has |
| sophisticated and just don't have the holes in | | | | heard the horror stories of 911 glitches where the |
| them that they did back then. To start with, the | | | | overloaded system has failed. The last thing you |
| new state of the art wireless system don't have | | | | are going to want to do in an emergency is to sit |
| any wires that can be cut so James Bond would | | | | on the phone with a 911 operator. With state of |
| be out of luck with his wire snippers now. The | | | | the art home monitoring, your security system |
| batteries last up to three years and the | | | | sends a signal to a security monitoring station |
| component will signal the control panel when they | | | | that is manned by highly trained professionals who |
| need to be replaced. Thats just the beginning, | | | | instantly take command of the situation and |
| because the level of technology that you can get | | | | notify emergency person ell as they |
| in todays home security stems is truly space age. | | | | simultaneously contact you, so you aren't alone. |
| In fact, there is even voice recognition technology | | | | |