Keeping your family safe has always been a top priority within the home. With human kind comes crime. You are at your most vulnerable when you are asleep or away from your home and to protect it while you are away or yourself and family while you sleep, installing a burglar alarm may be the smartest thing you have ever done for your family. Knowing the difference between types of alarms and how they work will make the decision to install easier. Interested in learning more about burglar alarms?

Intrusion alarms are electronic devices used to alert a house's occupants and perhaps a monitoring center who then notifies the police, of a stranger's unwanted presence. They are frequently set up to sound in other dangerous situations as well, usually in case of fire. The unit uses infrared sensors to detect a door or window opening and sounds a high-pitched noise to alert the occupants inside, as well as notify the proper emergency personnel.

Alarms come as remote or local systems. Remote systems alert a monitoring center when the alarm sounds. The issue with remote is that if you accidentally set off the alarm you get charged for it. Local systems sound an alarm to alert the household of a situation but not emergency personnel. The issue with local is that if you are away from your home and the alarm sounds, you will not know until you are home and it is too late.

The other factor to consider is whether you want wired or wireless installation. Wireless is more expensive, harder to install and less reliable than the hard wired kind. Although wireless is more noticeable and require a battery of some sort which you would need to keep changing.

Whether you want to get wireless or hard wired, remote or local, to signal burglary, fire or something else, a burglar alarm is a great investment to a homeowner and to their family's safety. So, if you care about their safety, this is an option to look into.