Top Reasons To Buy A Smart Doorbell Smart home appliances are just so convenient, they are nearly doing everything to make our lives easier. This is the major reason why smart home products are so popular and are simply growing in trend. With smart home products, all you need to do is give the appliance a set of instructions and the product will execute the commands accordingly. For instance, let us consider air conditioners. With a smart thermostat, you can set the temperature and give it instructions to turn on as soon as you pull up in your garage. [...]

Top Smart Home Gadgets That Make Lives Easier     If we sit and actually think about it, there are a lot of things that annoy us every day. Many of these are at our very homes themselves. After a long day, the smoke detector might start beeping for the next battery change, or the thermostat isnt set correctly, or the confusion of you locking the door or not after you just got comfortable in bed. In reality, there is  a wide range of smart products and appliances simply waiting to make your lives easier. Appliances aside, when we [...]

Houston Methodist Hospital has added two new members to its security team — a pair of robots that patrol the halls on wheels.  Built by surveillance systems firm, Knightscope, the robots are just over 4 feet tall and are dubbed Watson and Holmes. “If you watch Star Wars, it kind of looks like R2D2,” said Hadji Sarr, the hospital’s director of public safety. The machines are fitted with 360-degree cameras, an alarm button, and a two-way communication system that allows users to communicate with security officials. “If you’re in distress or need help, you can call a button on [...]

Aransas Pass Residents Bound And Robbed At Gunpoint By 5 Suspects Aransas Pass police are searching for five suspects accused of breaking into a house, binding occupants, and stealing a large sum of money. Reports say the invasion happened around 12:20 a.m. on tuesday. "The five abducted two tenants and bound everyone inside the house," reads the report. Authorities suspect the citizen was targeted and pursued Corpus Christi. Everything was captured inside the house on their home security system. The video shows the perpetrator kicking in the front door. The armed offenders walk around home and search for objects. [...]

Dallas suburbs stepping up violent crime prevention. Desoto has seen seven killings in six months. The Town of Desoto had no murders for two years, but now had seven in the last six months. "We have been seeing an uptick in violent crime as has Dallas, which is our northern neighbor with their increase in murders and violent crime,” said Pete Schulte, Desoto Spokesperson.   Both Richardson & Ennis police say they have charged several Dallas perpetrators of theft, and plan to prosicute several other for various crimes. "Let's be real criminals and crime have no boundaries. They are going [...]

Advantages Of Cellular Monitoring In this day and age we all use apps to make our life a little easier, why not home security? Cellular security cameras are a type of surveillance system that can be implemented in homes and businesses. They’re unique from other types of surveillance because they do not require Internet. They are not wired—instead, they connect to a cellular network for data transfer. Because of their wireless connectivity, cellular cameras are an easily accessible way of keeping tabs on your home at all times. Learn how cellular video cameras can boost your home security.   A more [...]

Smart Thermostats Help Save Energy In Texas Heat Your home surveillance system helps keep you safe, and now you can even save money.   What is a Smart Thermostat? A Smart Thermostat uses information about what’s going on inside and outside your home to make informed decisions (without being told or from wherever you are through a smartphone app) about the temperature in your home resulting in the perfect balance of comfort and energy savings.  Smart Thermostats attach to both computer and activity monitor in the smart home monitoring network as well as cloud intelligence. Below are 3 ways Smart Thermostat's help you [...]

Home surveillance systems make consumers susceptible to terrifying cyber assaults. A Mississippi family reported this week that a voice over their Ring camera told their 8-year-old that he was Santa Claus and asked if they could be friends. In October, a California man reported that his home Nest camera in his 18-month-old's room had been hacked. In that instance, a woman's voice was heard yelling, "I'm coming for your baby," to the couple's nanny, who was also in the room.  CBS News has revealed earlier this year that an Illinois family became the target of a mysterious assault in which [...]

  Most smart property owners wish to get every tax deduction they’re entitled to. Typically, however, a home security system does not receive a tax deduction. If your security system is only utilized to protect your personal home then it would fall under the IRS’s (IRS) list of nondeductible expenditures. We understand you’re wanting to save money, which is why we have a great deal of terrific choices for security systems. To compare functions, costs, and devices, have a look at the Fort Knox Systems for business and home. So, can you deduct your security system & monitoring on your [...]

No one can imagine the consequences of the robbery, break-in, or even natural disasters. You'll want to be prepared as much as possible if that could happen. Home security systems are an excellent way to protect your homes, valuables, and family in the event of an emergency. Secure your home and protect it One of the main reasons to consider setting up a security system for your home is to protect your family and secure your home. Home security systems have been linked to a lower overall crime rate and will cause an intruder to think twice before [...]