Home Alarm Systems 101

Toron­to is home to more than 6 mil­lion peo­ple, with vis­i­tors com­ing and going every day. With so many in the city, it makes sense that most fam­i­lies have a home alarm sys­tem in their dwelling.

Home alarm sys­tems offer peace of mind when you’re home or away. They alert you to intrud­ers, pre­vent break-ins, and even record strange activ­i­ty around your home when you’re not there to see it for your­self.

Home alarm sys­tems have come a long way over the last decade. At Pro­tec­tion Plus, we’re proud to serve the Greater Toron­to Area, offer­ing Toron­to­ni­ans a safer, more relax­ing place to call home.

One of the great­est things we can pro­vide our cus­tomers is infor­ma­tion. Under­stand­ing home secu­ri­ty opti­mizes the way your home secu­ri­ty sys­tem works for you. Thus, here’s what you should know about own­ing a home alarm sys­tem.

Types of Home Alarm Systems

Mod­ern home alarm sys­tems come in all shapes and sizes. At Pro­tec­tion Plus, we under­stand that no two home­own­ers are exact­ly alike. This means the neces­si­ty of cus­tomiz­able secu­ri­ty setups. For our team, this includes prod­ucts and ser­vices like:

Alarm‑i

Alarm‑i is a Visu­al Alarm Ver­i­fi­ca­tion sys­tem. When an alarm is trig­gered in your home, the video sys­tem turns on in order to cap­ture what­ev­er event is occur­ring. This could be the open­ing of a win­dow, door, garage, or oth­er avenues of entry.

An alarm auto­mat­i­cal­ly cap­tures a video and sends you a text or email with the footage. This lets you view video clips of poten­tial prob­lems at home from any­where you go. You can see what’s hap­pen­ing at home, and there­fore deter­mine your plan of action.

This same footage is also sent to our mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion, where an oper­a­tor views the video and con­tacts the cor­rect author­i­ties. This addi­tion­al pro­tec­tion through our mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion catch­es false alarms so they don’t cause pan­ic or alert police acci­den­tal­ly.

Smart Home Monitoring

Smart Home Mon­i­tor­ing con­nects you to your house through a con­ve­nient app. When you’re not home, whether you’re at work, or even out of the coun­try on vaca­tion, you can check in to con­trol things at the house.

Smart Home Mon­i­tor­ing lets you turn on and off your secu­ri­ty sys­tem, and pro­vide you with real-time 24/7 mon­i­tor­ing from our secu­ri­ty team and live oper­a­tors. It also guar­an­tees access to pro­tec­tion from bur­glary, flood, car­bon monox­ide, and fire through our noti­fi­ca­tion sys­tem. Noti­fi­ca­tions get sent direct­ly to your smart­phone, let­ting you know if some­thing of con­cern has occurred on your prop­er­ty.

Pair your Smart Home Mon­i­tor­ing app with the Alarm‑i to remote­ly view your front door, check on vis­i­tors, watch for deliv­er­ies, and more.

Qolsys IQ Panel 4

Qol­sys IQ Pan­el 4 offers all the secu­ri­ty gad­gets that home­own­ers need to keep tabs on their prop­er­ties. This includes:

• 7” HD Touch­screen
• a built-in 4K (8MP) cam­era
• a new exclu­sive fea­ture: Dual SRF fea­tur­ing Pow­erG, the best wire­less sen­sor pro­to­col avail­able. Pow­erG has 4x the range of tra­di­tion­al wire­less, mil­i­tary grade 2‑way encryp­tion, auto­mat­ic sig­nal adjust­ment to improve bat­tery life and ensure a reli­able con­nec­tion, and inter­fer­ence cir­cum­ven­tion to ensure your sig­nals nev­er get blocked by oth­er wire­less pro­to­cols.

You choose what your home needs as you work with a mem­ber of the Pro­tec­tion Plus team to cre­ate your cus­tom-made home alarm sys­tem.

Benefits of a Home Alarm System

Mod­ern home alarm sys­tems do more than just alert you to poten­tial theft or van­dal­ism. With smart locks and smart door­bells, you can do every­thing from keep­ing tabs on vis­it­ing rel­a­tives to ensur­ing pack­ages are deliv­ered on time.

Some of the great­est advan­tages of a home alarm sys­tem are:

• Alerts to open win­dows and doors
• The abil­i­ty to lock win­dows and doors if you leave home and for­get
• Video mon­i­tor­ing from work or while on vaca­tion
• Ongo­ing sur­veil­lance from the Pro­tec­tion Plus secu­ri­ty team
• Abil­i­ty to see who is at the door before open­ing it
• Smoke, car­bon monox­ide, flood, and fire alerts

Home alarm sys­tems with video sur­veil­lance also pro­tect you against poten­tial lia­bil­i­ty threats. Like a dash­cam, hav­ing video evi­dence of mishaps on your prop­er­ty leaves you secure if a legal case should arise.

Remote secu­ri­ty makes your Toron­to home safer than ever before. With the abil­i­ty to check in on your cam­era sys­tem from any­where you have an inter­net con­nec­tion to 24/7 mon­i­tor­ing by our secu­ri­ty team, you expo­nen­tial­ly low­er the risk of an acci­dent or crime occur­ring on your prop­er­ty.

Home Alarm System Add-Ons

As you set up your home secu­ri­ty sys­tem, con­sid­er adding addi­tion­al fea­tures or prod­ucts, such as:

Home Security Audit

Before you begin build­ing your home secu­ri­ty sys­tem, a home secu­ri­ty audit is a must. At Pro­tec­tion Plus, we offer free, no-oblig­a­tion audits of your cur­rent secu­ri­ty sys­tem, with rec­om­men­da­tions for advance­ment and add-ons.

Our team not only under­stands secu­ri­ty, but we also know what to expect in Toron­to and how to secure even the trick­i­est of res­i­dences. Whether you live in a high-rise con­do or a two-sto­ry duplex, we’ve got you cov­ered.

Door and Window Reinforcements

Locks aren’t always enough to deter forced entry. Bro­ken doors and win­dows are com­mon in home bur­glar­ies. For­tu­nate­ly, you can rein­force your doors and win­dows with our:

• Door guardians
• Win­dow guardians
• Patio door locks
• Safe door sys­tems
• Strike plates

Our lock­smith and door-lock team can work with doors of all shapes and sizes, rein­forc­ing not only the strike plate around your lock but the frame itself, if nec­es­sary.

Security Window Bars

In extreme cir­cum­stances, you might not feel safe with stan­dard win­dow glass on your win­dows. This is some­times the case for home­own­ers with a home busi­ness. To keep your assets secure, and your win­dows break-free, win­dow bars can be added to enhance secu­ri­ty and deter break-ins.

These are just some of the add-ons that you can opt for when you begin design­ing your secu­ri­ty sys­tem in Toron­to. Pro­tec­tion Plus can help you decide what oth­er ser­vices or prod­ucts would ben­e­fit your home.

Contact Protection Plus Today

Inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about Pro­tec­tion Plus and our home alarm sys­tem options? We want to hear from you. Our expe­ri­enced team is famil­iar with each of our prod­ucts and hap­py to walk you through the most ben­e­fi­cial sys­tem for your home type and lifestyle. To chat with our team today, call 1–844-365‑7587 or con­tact us online.