Home alarm – raises all sorts of images when you start to think about what you might need to secure your family’s house—sensors at every door and window, outdoor lighting triggered by a motion detector, the reassuring voice of the security company’s monitoring service alerting you that the emergency personnel you urgently require are on their way (fire, police, medics),—but what is it?

A security device box hanging on a wall, networked with cameras aimed at entry points including the backyardand garage, or is it something more comforting, like an invisible security blanket that surrounds you and your family and offers a little peace of mind? Something simple, safe, effective and compatible with today’s technology.There is even an app (computer application) that allows you to control the alarm’s system.

Home alarm—a combination of assurance and 911 emergency response when you have a security company’s surveillance program installed in your home. The security service provider keeps track of all activity picked up by the sensors and sends that information wirelessly via an encrypted signal to their centralized stations. When an appropriate alarm is raised, the security company notifies the police or other needed emergency personnel. For some families, just having the company’s sign displayed on the lawn (or near the front porch) is a strong enough deterrent, but when your family goes on vacation it is comforting to know that a home alarm security system is in place, maintaining the peace of mind that comes from having an invisible security blanket.

Technology has advanced so much quite recently in home security that it really shouldnot be surprising to find that you can even control your home alarm with your mobile devices (cellphone or iPad). Some of the features you can do in real-time include (through the app):

Arm or disarm the system

Watch your system’s surveillance footage (both live and recorded)

Read security reports

Control sensors in individual rooms

Open or close doors and windows

There may also be other technological capabilities available now or in the near future that would allow you a greater degree of flexible control over not only an anti-burglary security home alarm, but the other alarms in your house as well, including smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. And a home alarm is also a strong selling feature if and when the time comes for you to put your house on the market. You can pass the peace of mind over to the next family who values having the assurance of an invisible security blanket.