Summer, sun and good mood – but this can quickly be over when you are sitting on the beach and receive a call about a break-in in your home . Smart technology will not be able to prevent this completely, but it can at least minimize the risk.
What dangers lurk for homeowners on a long vacation?
For many people, and families in particular, the holiday season is one of the best times of the year. They look forward to several days or even weeks of relaxation , fun and leisure and of course want to enjoy it as carefree as possible. In apartment buildings, the residents often know each other very well and therefore look out for each other, especially if something suspicious is happening on the property or in the stairwell and the neighbors are on vacation.
However, many owners of private homes and large properties are usually left to their own devices and cannot always rely on their neighbors. Many burglars know this too, and prefer to choose isolated properties with bushes or fences that are as high as possible so that they can carry out their criminal activities undisturbed. Since burglars usually observe their desired properties for several days, they notice very quickly when the owners are obviously on vacation. It is not uncommon for the owners to even reveal this themselves on social media, thus almost giving burglars an “invitation” to break in.
Why can smart technology be a practical solution?
Of course, even smart technology can never fusion database completely prevent break-ins, but it does offer various options to at least warn burglars, make attempted break-ins more difficult, delay them, or at least help solve a burglary as soon as possible. There are now various smart solutions that specialize in deterring or solving break-ins, and which you can use to regularly check on your home and the area around it using an app and smartphone, even when you are on vacation, and receive a direct alert if anything unusual happens.
Which technical solutions are particularly suitable during holiday periods?
In fact, there are many different ways to customers are always looking for keep
unwanted guests away from the property and the valuables inside while you are on
vacation. The classic variants include smart devices that can be used to automatically
control the lights remotely via smartphone – for example, by turning patio lights
outside or room lights inside on and off for a short time. This is a very easy way to
create the impression that the owners are present. In expert circles, this is also
referred to as a “presence simulation”.
However, if potential burglars are already on the property, motion lights can be a
good deterrent. Things get much more professional with smart surveillance camera
systems, which are installed outside and inside the building and alert homeowners to
people outside or even inside the house via smartphone push notifications.
Particularly high-quality systems then also record the video directly in high-
resolution quality on a storage medium such as an SD card or in the cloud for further
investigations into the break-in. Depending on the device design and settings, the
owner can then inform the police themselves if a break-in is suspected, or let the
system do this automatically.
Why shouldn’t you save in the wrong place?
When choosing security technology, you usa lists shouldn’t leave anything to chance
and you certainly shouldn’t focus on price, because the cost savings for a cheap alarm
system are almost never worth the actual hassle and stress if a break-in does occur
while you’re on vacation. That’s why you should definitely not cut corners and get
advice from a specialist about which solutions make the most sense for your property.