Common Misconceptions of Home Security Systems
No one likes to be deceived. A common misconception can influence decisions in a very negative way. Some of the most commonly held are about home security systems, such as they are quite easily debunked and should serve as good cause to reconsider installing one if you haven’t already, which is not so. Here are clarifications to some of the most common of these home security misconceptions.
It’s commonly believed that most “good” thieves, if there is such a thing, can easily defeat most burglar alarms. This myth, and the means by which people generally believe that thieves accomplish such feats of stealth, are largely the creation of very creative but terribly misinformed screenwriters.
Another very common misconception is that cutting some mythical wire in which, at least according to filmmakers, can disarm an alarm. This is simply untrue. Modern alarm systems use a combination of wired and wireless technologies. More importantly, most alarms will regard any loss of connectivity as a reason to, well, be alarmed. Snipping wires on modern alarms won’t get you into the house, but it well inform the authorities.
Motion detectors can easily be defeated with some graceful and slow movement, right? Just look at Oceans 12, Mission Impossible, or Entrapment… again not reality! This is all wrong. Motion detectors are incredibly sensitive. In fact, allowances often have to be made for the most mundane and harmless movement in a room, such as pets wandering about. The only time they don’t detect motion is when you remain perfectly still, something a thief will not do while inside your home.
There’s another magnificent misconception that a resourceful thief can record the tones emitted by some alarm pads, connect their recording device into the system and play back the recording and that somehow, this will trick the alarm. Before this was to happen, this would require the burglar to open the door, the alarm panel and hard wiring in an electronic device before the alarm goes off. In any real-life situation, this is just not going to happen. Additionally, it would require tampering with the alarm in a way that would likely trigger it. Finally, alarm panels are far more sophisticated devices than this, and this is really something that will only work, once again, in the movies.
With older window alarms, they were vulnerable to defeat by skillful interference with the electrical circuit that indicated the window being opened. Even in the most dated models, however, this would require incredible speed and skill. Modern alarms detect window breakage, the frame being opened and motion inside the home. Even if it were possible to disable a modern device in the same way as was possible in the past, it would only defeat one security measure and modern alarms represent a collection of several different measures. Defeating one of the devices used would likely be too large a task for any thief, must less defeating each and every one of their number.
Hopefully clarifying all of this misinformation will only encourage installing a home security system. ADT is your best option. Call an ADT specialist today to receive more information on all of the available plans, packages, equipment, and to answer any further questions or doubts you may have about home security systems.
