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Simple Home Electronics

NO security products are guaranteed to prevent any crime - but will likely serve you well if combined with the guidance in Home Security.

I love these devices and criminals hate them. These simple yet very effective security products can be used separately because they're not linked together as a unified "alarm system" (with a central control panel). However, they can be either substitutes for - or supplements to - a unified Alarm System. Whatever you choose, you should also reinforce your Doors, Windows, and Garage so you'll have overlapping layers of security products.

• Outdoor motion detector floodlights from www.smarthome.com scare off a burglar when they pop on (only at night) in response to any motion within a given space and stay on until after he leaves – whether you’re at home or away. Install them over walkways and parking spots to reveal and scare off prowlers. These photocells can control up to 4 additional ordinary floodlights described next.
• Outdoor floodlights: the above motion detector floodlights activate up to 4 of these ordinary floodlights to automatically stay on from dusk to dawn – whether you’re at home or away. From a distance, nighttime prowlers can see the constant lighting surrounding your home and won't go near it. The brighter the better, at least bright enough to allow reading of a wristwatch throughout your target area. Good lighting is a very effective nighttime burglar deterrent.
• Alarm add-on (for motion detector floodlights described above) begins shrieking when the floodlight pops on.
• Outdoor solar-powered photocell floodlights from www.smarthome.com light up your home automatically from dusk to dawn whether you're at home or away - with free solar power.
• Motion detector alarm with a siren and strobe-light for in-or-outdoors. See www.smarthome.com.
• Indoor motion detector lights are useful for hallways, stairs and so on – to reveal an intruder or to illuminate your late-night jaunts to the bathroom or refrigerator. See www.smarthome.com.
• Outdoor motion detectors have indoor audio alarms that sound like a doorbell. False alarms from a wandering cat or wind-blown leaves aren’t much of a nuisance. See www.smarthome.com
• Intercoms for your exterior doors let you talk with a visitor (or just listen) without opening your door and risking a Push-In. Easy-to-install wireless models are ideal security products (especially when using a peephole as well) and a fun convenience - see www.smarthome.com. ... Additional intercom units throughout your home let you talk to visitors at your door from anywhere in your home. You can also talk to another family member in another room – say from a second story bedroom to the basement. See www.smarthome.com. Many other intercom models are there as well – some with cameras so you can also see who’s at your door, again from anywhere in your home.
• Window alarms shriek when a window is opened or broken - see www.smarthome.com for a low-cost yet ideal way to scare off a burglar.

When a woman suspected that workers remodeling her home were stealing, she began using a tiny video camera disguised as a pager. That's how police say she nabbed her electrician taking money and prescription drugs.
Excerpted from The Orlando Sentinel – 19 February 2002

• Spy camera (disguised as a teddy bear) - see www.smarthome.com. Watch your baby or see a predator without being seen.
• Wall-plate camera sees an entire room - or outside your entry door - but they can't see you. See www.smarthome.com.
• Night-Vision Cameras see without light (in full color).
• Surveillance cameras from www.smarthome.com are mounted in-or-outdoors either conspicuously (as a deterrent) or hidden within a hollowed-out book. ... You can add a motion-sensitive digital recorder to monitor a babysitter, repairman, or intruder and record only the action. ... Also, signals can be sent to a TV in your home or over the Internet so you can secretly watch your home while you’re anywhere in the world.
• Automatic timers for lights, TVs, and radios give a burglar the impression that someone is at home while you’re away. The versatile www.smarthome.com model turns on/off as many as eight things - throughout your home - at your chosen times. ... You can also sleep soundly while several lights in distant rooms turn on/off to give the impression that you're awake and aware.
• Other cool stuff - some security products, some just for fun - at www.smarthome.com.

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• Home Security - Product Buying Guide - Intro
• Safe Room
• Door Reinforcement
• Window Reinforcement
• Garage & Yard Reinforcement
• Simple Home Electronics (YOU’RE NOW ON THIS PAGE)
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• Flaws in Electronic Security
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