Basic Security System Equipment
It’s not enough to have surveillance cameras or hidden cameras to ensure the safety of your home. Though these security cameras are able to capture videos of your home or other properties for live monitoring or for later viewing, it takes more than being able to see what’s going on to provide overall, efficient protection and security. Home security equipment like motion detectors, alarms and security lights are just some of the basic things you’ll need to have in your security system.
You can choose from wireless or hard wired alarm systems or camera systems. Nowadays, wireless systems are more favored and preferred over the hard wired systems. Wireless systems save you the hassle of tucking and hiding wires in your ceilings and walls. Whereas hard wired systems limit the area and places where you’d like to have your security systems installed, wireless systems allow you to install your equipment anywhere that’s convenient for you. Your home security equipment should not only be effective, it must also be suitable and appropriate for your needs.
Camera systems come in different kinds. You have bullet cameras that are small in size and easy to hide; pan, tilt and zoom or PTZ cameras; infrared cameras that can automatically switch to night mode; hidden cameras; and board cameras. These come with their own transmitters (unless the transmitters are built in) and in-home receivers. Common frequencies in wireless cameras today are 2.4 GHz and are considered safe frequencies because they are more difficult to intercept compared to the 900 MHz frequency of older models of camera systems.
Another type of home security equipment that you’ll need would be magnetic alarm contacts. They come in different shapes and sizes depending on what type of windows, doors or garage doors you may have in your home. These contacts trigger your alarm when anyone tries to break in through your doors or windows.
Alarms also come in different types. For indoor alarm systems, you have passive infrared detectors, ultrasonic detectors, microwave detectors, photo-electric beams, glass-break detectors, and smoke, heat and carbon monoxide detectors. Outdoor types are E-field or electric field alarm system, vibration or inertia sensors, taut wire fence systems, microwave barriers, microphonic systems, fibre-optic cables, H-field (H referring to the formula for magnetic field strength), and passive magnetic field sensors.
These are the more common home security equipment that you can use in your home or business security systems.
