Driveway Alarms For Home Security
One of the most common ways to monitor a driveway is through a driveway alarm. They
are remote systems that are triggered when someone or something enters your driveway
or garden.
Driveway alarms provide an alert to you that someone might be trespassing on your
property as well as deterring a would-be burglar before they get as far as your
home.
Driveway alarms provide many benefits:
- The arrival of a welcome visitor
- The presence of an unwelcome visitor
- To trigger night lighting
- The unwanted wandering of a child towards danger
- Perhaps the wandering off by a person with special needs
- A wandering pet
These systems can actually be used in any area of your property. If you have an
extensive lawn or grounds you could benefit from a driveway alarm system. It can
be used to monitor other areas of your property. This is very beneficial as professional
burglars might not always enter the property via the driveway. Once this alarm system
is triggered, it can be designed to either trigger
security monitoring cameras
or simply sound a siren and/or flash a strobe light. In most circumstances, this
would be enough to deter a burglar and make them move on as well as alert the neighbors
and the authorities, if required.
When purchasing a driveway sensor system, several factors need to be considered.
Consider the range of the transmitter as some of the early systems to be introduced
had a range that could not exceed 1000 feet. More modern systems will offer a range
of several miles between each transmitter. There are also some systems that make
use of magnetic fields which means you can customize them according to your specific
driveway.
The receiver system can be tailored to suit your needs too. You can choose the sound
options such as a whistle or a chime. You can also configure them to automatically
contact you monitor security provider, emergency services or a specified list of
contacts in the event of the system triggering. They can also trigger a
recording security camera system.
Security reasons aside, these systems can be used to simply make it more convenient
to navigate your property at night by triggering
exterior security lighting
to light up your driveway making it a safe journey to your property.
There are several options of installation method.
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Advantages
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Disadvantages
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Wireless
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Simple installation, less expensive for longer distances
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There is a battery to change and range is limited by trees and buildings
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Wired
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No outside maintenance and nothing above ground on metal detection systems
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May be more expensive on long runs, more difficult to install
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Infra Red
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Detects people and cars (Moving heat detection)
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Detects large animals, occasionally birds and sometimes sunlight
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Metal Sensing Probes
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Only detects moving metal
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Will not detect people
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