Keep your home safe over the holidays

Homes are most vulnerable to a burglary when people are out for vacations. It becomes mandatory to keep a guard at our home when we are out. It’s not possible to keep track of the status of your home’s security all the time. If you are not feeling secure while being on your holiday vacations, Pacific Security can help you in keeping your home secure when you are not available at your home. Following are some tips to keep your home safe over the holidays.

Install CCTV SystemCCTVs can come handy when you are out of your home for a while. With the use of IP based cameras, you can monitor your house from a remote location as well. Holidays can be really awesome and carefree if you can see your home safe with the help of a mobile phone or a tablet. These camera systems are so sophisticated that they instantly alert you whenever anything suspicious happens around your home. It will give you a wide window to contact any security agency for backup. CCTV cameras can be very useful in a situation when you have very limited resources for the security of your home. You can easily monitor any kind of suspicious activity around your home and surroundings through a live camera as well.

Make Your Home SmartToday, in this technological era, smart gadgets have made a firm reputation among the users. From mobile to watch, refrigerators to cookware, everything is having a ‘smart’ word linked to them. Smart machines and gadgets are getting popular due to their smart services. You can install smart security system consists of smart locks and door sensors which can easily identify an unauthorized access inside the house. A smart home alarm security system can be very useful if you can use it in a productive way to keep your home secure.

Prevention is better than cureIt is better to prevent any kind of mishap than to deal with its consequences. We can take these important measures to keep our home safe from any kind of burglary or trespassing:

• Keep the boundaries safe to trespass by fencing it with a metal barrier or
 sharp-edged top.
• Install a security camera for surveillance of the whole premises.
• Keep a pet like Dog which can alert you whenever an unauthorized access of an unknown person is noticed.
• Hide all your valuable items inside a safe and place it somewhere out of the
 reach of anyone.
• Inform your trusted neighbors about your holiday plans and ask them to keep an eye on the house and surroundings once in a while.

Safety of a house depends upon the safety measures taken by the owner. Security systems and surveillance cameras can only provide an edge to the security of the house, but a house is only secured if security is not ignored by the authorities and owner. Machines alone cannot fulfill the needs of a secured system but human vigilance is also required.