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Secure Your Home While Away on Holiday or Vacation

11/29/2019

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Some precautions are simple and the others, we can help you with. Gone are the days when a person leaves home and there’s no way to keep a handle on what’s going on there. Technology puts the control in your hands, no matter where you are. The following are just a few common tips to secure your home while away.

  • Let a neighbor or two know that you’ll be gone and your house will be empty. Leave a key with a family member perhaps. Hide gifts and packages from view. If there is a break in, make it so nothing is easy to lift. And if the packaging has been left out for trash pickup, be careful! Burglars get a sneak preview this way. Make sure your home is well lit and maybe install an outdoor sensor light. Thieves usually work in the dark. Remember that.
  • The U.S. Fire Administration reported 2,650 deaths from house fires in 2008. Watch it with your Christmas lights. December is the deadliest month for electrical fires. Also inspect the furnace and chimney to avoid a fire danger. Check the batteries on smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. Garage door openers can be hacked! Disconnect them while you’re gone.
  • So you get to your destination, let’s say a family home. If you end up at the coffee shop while your cousins argue over which pie to eat first and you’ll be doing internet stuff through public WiFi, you should get a VPN. A VPN is a virtual public network. It hides you from those around you. A VPN shields you and your information from prying eyes when out in public. It’s routed through the internet to a remote site, making you more elusive and secure from would-be thieves.
  • Putting your travel plans online is a bad idea. Don’t share everything because “they” are watching and you’d be surprised what a thief can find out if he’s focused on you.

Explore the services we offer. Today you can automate home security as well as other aspects, even turning the heat up or down while you’re away. You can do it all from a smart phone!

Call us, we can set it all up for you.

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Carbon Monoxide Detectors: Keeping your Tahoe Home safe

9/18/2015

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Every month, it’s a good idea to test your Carbon Monoxide and smoke detectors by pressing the test button. If you’ve been in your home long or bought a new home, it may be time to replace the detectors. Depending on the model, you want to have them replaced every 10 years. While some detectors are directly linked up to a power source, they all have a battery for either power or backup power. So here’s your reminder! Pick up some batteries today and before put your detector alarms to the test.
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ISC West 2015

4/20/2015

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Diane and I just returned from Las Vegas where we attended ISC West 2015; the largest security trade show out there. If it’s happening in security it was shown there.

A few things we took away:
Automation is where it’s at!
        Why just have an alarm that alerts you when someone breaks in when you can also see what’s happening in your home or business with connected video, lock or unlock your door remotely, turn up or down the heat, turn on and off lights,…..  

You get the idea, alarms are becoming part of what’s called the “internet of things”.
What’s the IOT? To put it simply, everything’s connected and accessible through the cloud. And it’s getting easier to use and less expensive!

Video is evolving rapidly.
    The last couple years have seen video moving from analog to digital or IP based. This year we saw that continuing with pricing getting closer so that IP cameras are now a  viable choice for even small systems, but I didn’t expect to see inexpensive analog systems now approaching digital quality picture.

    Something I will be offering and am quite excited about are new products that allow local storage of video as well as notification by email of events and cloud storing of clips. And best of all it integrates with your alarm through a new service we will be offering.

Sound like something you could use? Give us a call or an email, I’ll fill you in on the details!
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