When shopping for home security devices you can’t miss all of the wonderful features now available due to recent developments in technology. Instead of tearing out walls, trim and carpeting and hiring a professional installer, today’s devices set up easily and quickly allowing for a do-it-yourself installation. When designing your new security system, consider some of the more recent upgrades that add convenience and can save you money on your home owner’s insurance premium.

Home security systems used to require a land line phone connection. Today’s systems allow cellular, broadband and traditional land line monitoring. While adequate cellular coverage is required for the cellular option, broadband monitoring is available with an upgraded control center if you connect with VoIP. Broadband monitoring alerts the monitoring centers up to four times faster than a traditional land line connection.

Today’s home security devices also offer more zones for better protection. Every device attached to the system counts as a zone. Let’s say you have four doors, fourteen windows, three outdoor motion sensor lights, an interior and exterior video camera, and a flood sensor attached to your system. That adds up to twenty-four zones requiring one control center. You want to add CO detection, freeze detection, heat and fire detection, and another outdoor video surveillance camera. Adding five more devices to the system would have required another control center, but now you can upgrade your control center and purchase only one instead of two.

More features for home security devices include cellular contact. If you are away on vacation, the monitoring center can contact you via cell phone instead of through a land line. You can also purchase a system that allows you to check in and control your system while you are away. With these new controllers, you can dial into the control module to turn it on or off. You can change access codes, check the event logs, and tell it to turn on your outdoor or indoor lights before you return home. The flexibility now offered allows you to set up one-time access codes, designate time frames certain access codes are allowed or not allowed, and monitor the video surveillance from a remote location through your laptop.

Video surveillance has come a long way in a short time. Now you can purchase high quality wireless video cameras that work day or night protecting your assets and family. A video surveillance system allows you to monitor your family and pets while you are away, and provides a good view of intruders for the authorities in case of a break in attempt.

Whatever you had in mind for monitoring and protecting your home and family, the latest in home security devices offers features to match your budget and busy lifestyle. It has never been easier to install and set up a home security system than it is today with all of the wireless devices available. You can now sleep and travel without worry knowing everything is safe and secure while you are otherwise occupied.