Video Surveillance – Protect Your Home Like a Business
Video surveillance has traditionally been used by businesses to protect their facility. Home owners are starting to use video surveillance more frequently due to more affordability and increased security. Security technology especially video surveillance cameras have gotten very affordable in the past few years. This trend has made owning a home video surveillance system easy on the wallet and now even an average home owner can feel like they have the same security as Bill gates house has, well maybe not quite but you get the picture.
Remember the good old days when owning a dog pretty much ensured that no criminal would be crazy enough to enter your home. I think for the most part that is still true but if you have smaller dogs, criminals might be more willing to take the risk. I watched a video a while ago where a home owner had video surveillance set up on her computer mainly to monitor her pets. When she viewed her screen she could see several criminals in her home going through her stuff and her dogs were kind of walking with them. They were small dogs but I think the criminal’s greed even outweighed the possibility that they might be attacked. If she had a German Shepard, I doubt they would have entered the home in the first place. For those who do not have dogs, video surveillance can be a great deterrent before as criminal tries to enter your home.
Imagine putting signs up in front of your house, very discreetly, maybe even a door hanger on your door knob. The sign would say, “This house is monitored with video surveillance.” I think that would be simple enough. You could also include that sign on some of your more accessible windows and then you are set. Would this mean that no criminal would dare try and break into your home, no, but you would make the idea less attractive to a large number of criminals that dare to come through your front door.
All technology eventually becomes cheaper. This allows the common man to have access to more advanced home security as well as entertainment and communication. It might actually be the norm for every domicile to have high tech security in the future and at that point maybe dogs just won’t cut it.