Home Security Systems
Think a good home security system has to
be expensive? It doesn't. You can get some nice stuff here for $50 - $100
Wireless cameras, motion sensors, record to your VHS player, wireless
door/window alarms, fish eye lenses, night vision cameras for low light on
patios, see your place on the internet while away, have the system call you when
entry has occurred , X10 has everything from simple to sophisticated and it's
all easy to install. Forget the monthly fee systems.
See my story below.
Click on blue links below to view different equipment options. You can find lots of on sale stuff.
Home Security Cameras
Wireless Camera Hide Anywhere - Record Everything - X10.com
Robotic Camera Follows The ACTION- Record Everything!
Security Motion
Home Security System Calls your Cell Phone and tells you when a door or window
X10 Wireless Security Equipment - Affordable Security!
The Instant On Camera – Cameras That Catch All The Action Black & White
Cameras For Night Watch & Surveillance
Capture A Wider View With The X10 Wide Eye Camera
Added security for your home with these
motion activated floodlights
Sensor - Home or Office, Click Here!
Wireless Nanny-Camera
Hide...Anywhere!
XCam2 - FREE BONUS!
My story
I live in Mexico just outside Guadalajara
where most people build huge fences and fortresses around their lots and enclose
themselves in their own little prisons. It's sad you have to do that to keep low
lifes from stealing your stuff but not only is it tradition here from many years
previous, but it shows well the current state of people's finances. People use
this development where we live as a weekend getaway from Guadalajara more than
as a place to live everyday, so there are a lot of empty houses here during the
week. It's not a gated community. Goat and cattle herds and horses graze here in
the empty lots which brings in outsiders that don't actually live here. We are
not rich people to be able to build a garrison around our home and I like open space. I didn't want to do that. I
like openness. Outside of a 4.5' high see thru yard fence we have little
physical protection. Plus the high number of break ins in these well fortressed
lots proved to me that a walled prison enclosure wasn't the answer. Some houses
that have been broken into here had lots of iron work to prevent robbers from
getting inside, but they did anyway. In fact it just made it where people
outside couldn't see what the robbers were doing inside. Systems that
called the police weren't real effective because it is known the police are in
on a lot of these robberies. They get paid under the table to look the other way
or not respond until after the fact. When it got to the point it was known
who the robbers were and where they lived and the police wouldn't do anything
about it, I decided to take other measures than relying on the police. The
police kept saying that unless they had pictures of the robbers actually doing
the robbing or caught them in the act, they couldn't apprehend them. And since
they always took their time in getting to the scene so the robbers could escape,
that wasn't likely. Inquiring into security companies around here brought sticker
shock. I didn't like what I saw. The words are, ineffective or way too
expensive. So I started searching on the net and found this company X10 who makes
really good stuff that is also highly affordable and simple to install. Click on
the blue links above to see some of what they offer.
I chose several ways to secure our home. I went
to ebay and bought fake outside cameras to mix with the real ones so the robbers
could see the cameras themselves and if they chose to disable them, the real ones
which were better hidden would still take their pictures and record it on VHS. Second, I bought
wireless cameras from the X10 site that are wide angle (120 degree coverage) , and
low light vision capable also for nightime use when only a yard light provides
the light. They work in the daytime too. They have motion sensors that go with
them that trigger a VHS player to turn on and record the action as long as the
motion detector is triggered. The VHS player turns off when the people go
away. I can sit at my computer inside the house and monitor all four functional
cameras whenever I want to on my PC or a television screen. Using the Vanguard
Internet Control Center Software you can even view what your security cameras
are seeing from
anywhere in the world using an internet connection. This lets me know what is
going on outside my home. If some one tries to break in the outer perimeter I
have recorded footage of who that is. I will probably also add outdoor
motion sensors connected to the control module in the house which will trigger
an external siren outside. A skunk, opposum or armadillo walking through the
yard may trigger it as the Cubster, our Rotweiler, gets to sleep on the couch
inside the house at night.
Inside my home I installed simple wireless motion detectors and wireless door and window magnetic
detectors which signal a control module with a built in loud siren alarm. If
someone can open a door or window to enter the house an alarm goes off warning
us. I may add a separate single camera system inside the house to see the living
room on our TV upstairs in our bedroom inside the house but their pictures are
probably already taken coming up to the house.
Warning Signs on the perimeter gates and two house doors that state that the robbers photos either will be taken or are already taken by breaching the gate and that the place is monitored by surveillance cameras and motion detectors which trigger recording their presence is probably a better deterrent than spending megabucks a month on professionally monitored security systems. Just my opinion. So far we haven't been hit by the robbers; knock on wood.