Home Security

Keeping secure in your home is now more important than ever. While burglaries are down a bit over the last several years, crime now is more violent than ever. Keeping your family safe from intrusion and secure with a good tight perimeter alarm system is the best security combined with dead bolt locks and secure windows make it much more difficult for an intruder to harm anyone.

While you are away, there will be infrared sensor or sensors that are now even pet smart to ignore your dog or cat and yet sense and get help if an intruder would penetrate your home from a more difficult opening such as high second floor window or a hole cut in a door or wall.

Pushing that home button on your keypad is all that it takes to turn on your system and the comfort and the sense of security you feel is well worth every dollar.

Fire can start anywhere in your home from the attic to the basement. Detectors need to placed in these areas along with the garage area. Typically garage and attic areas need thermal heat sensors while each floor of the home along with the bedrooms should have smoke detectors. Common sirens/horns are placed throughout the home so you can hear them when you have a problem and escape immediately while fire trucks are on the way.

Carbon Monoxide, referred to as the deadly killer is silent and it is odorless. Any home with a has furnace, fireplaces, gas water heaters and attached garages should have one or more detectors. Our designer will locate the placement of the detectors when he or she gives your home a no cost survey. Typical locations of carbon monoxide detectors are in sleeping areas and basements with furnaces and water heaters.

Concerning temperature and the sudden and extreme winter weather here in St. Louis, what can be more assuring than a freeze detector to "baby-sit" your home while you are away. Water damage is easily avoided with knowing that your furnace has failed and help is on the way.

Intercom systems can be accomplished with several brands such as music and sound, Nutone or Airphone. Whether it is to call someone in another part of the home or hear and answer the door bell, intercoms are so convenient. Options include clear CD music throughout the home or a Panasonic Phone System where intercom is at every phone and you can answer the front door from a wireless phone while sitting at the pool.

The real heart of your security lies with our Central Station. Having the central station here in our office in Wildwood, Missouri, we have a staff of highly trained people that have many years of helping our clients with their security 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. When an emergency occurs, it is so reassuring to have one of our staff here sending help to yo when seconds count that make the difference between life and death.

CCTV is a tool used in a world when a lot happens inside and outside the home. Closed Circuit TV can now be remotely viewed and is an excellent management tool in business to help reduce shrinkage.