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Fire alarms include a series of smoke detectors, heat detectors and possibly an in home sprinkler. One ignored aspect of your home security is your home’s built in systems, such as heating and cooling and plumbing. Critical System Alarms include:Cooling and heating alarms have detection and monitoring devices that transmit information about your heating and cooling system often directly to a monitoring company. Flood and water alarm systems monitor your plumbing system where even small leaks can go unnoticed and result in thousands of dollars in repairs. Types of Alarm Sensors:Alarm Sensors are essential elements of your home security system. A wide variety of security alarm sensors and detectors are available for use. It is obvious what most sensors do, so we will only describe the main ones used in a basic system. Contact Sensors: Most burglaries involve doors, either on entry or while leaving the house. So protecting all doors is a must. Example: magnetic circuit breakers. Door contacts may be hardwired or wireless; hardwired contacts are usually buried in the doorframe, which is less obvious than wireless and are preferable.

This is particularly the case given that it is the said physical security that presents the most serious obstacle to an attacker seeking to execute a break in.

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