Do you like to consider yourself a technology buff? Do you own a home? If you have answered 'yes' to both questions, then you need to continue reading this article! The fascinating world of advanced technology provides us with something new to marvel at on a practically daily basis, yet not every ground-breaking advancement is able to offer us serious benefits in terms of personal and property security. However, when there are serious breakthroughs in home security technology, it is quite something to celebrate-after all, technology is, by definition, supposed to improve our standard of living, and nothing could make home owners and people in general happier than something that keeps themselves, their family and their property safe and sound from all sorts of threats. Here, we intend to reveal to readers what some of the latest and most important technological advances have been in terms of boosting and ensuring safety and security at home; so read on, and make sure that you are fully up to date in your home system!

The two-way voice communications keypad. If there is something that can really put the safety of residents of any given home at risk, it is the inability to communicate with emergency dispatchers at their home security company's monitoring center. Live dispatchers are home residents' lifeline: they react to detected issues in a given monitored home, and they are responsible for sending the necessary help-be it fire, medical, or police related. Of course, when emergencies arise there is no telling how a home's residents will be able to convey to the dispatcher the urgency of the situation at hand. If, for example, a fire has started inside the home and the area where the telephone is located is consumed in flame and billowing smoke, well, that's obviously not going to be the method for communicating; and, if the wall-mounted keypad is also in an area that is inaccessible for one reason or another, that really compromises the family members. Hence, the inclusion of the latest and most high-performance microphones inside keypads has heralded a major advance in home security technology: with these enhanced wall units, and with a speaker or two wired up that can deliver the dispatcher's voice to all areas of the home, residents will be able to maintain a conversation practically no matter where they find themselves inside the home. Specifically, these high-tech microphones are able to capture sound at a distance of roughly 70 yards or more, which means that a normal home will be fully covered in terms of voice detection. So, if you have this crucial advancement included in your security lineup at home, you will never have to fear being left destitute and helpless.

Home security appliance control systems. Would you want to be left without the latest technology that has single-handedly brought about the new term "smart homes"? Probably not, which is why you should look into appliance control systems. Essentially, what you're looking at here is a central console that will consolidate all your electrical and electronic appliances into one interface, and allow you to program the activation/deactivation of each one of them on a regular basis. It's like having a planned schedule for each of your home appliances, whether security related or not.