Secure Your Home With Apps

If you recently moved into a home and are looking into setting up security, there are number of ways you can do that such as high-security locks, alarm systems, proudly displaying your ’beware of dog’ sign, cameras and more. But All My Sons of Oklahoma found out that the latest in home security is all about technology.
Generally, thieves won’t go into your home if they think someone is there and the latest security systems mimic just that. Home security today can manipulate lighting, sound and video to simulate the way people live. That way thieves will think someone’s home even if your family is on vacation.
Apparently some systems can even learn your personal day-to-day patterns such as when you typically turn on your television, when you turn on the lights and so on. You can program a doorbell linked to a sound system what will trigger the sound of a dog barking or even a human voice. Much more technological then the good old ‘ beware of dog’ sign.
The Oklahoma movers found out many of these systems can be managed from afar, remotely, from a smart phone app. The Wiser company offers a free iPhone app called the Wiser Home Controller to help people control their Wiser C-Bus home automation technology system while they’re away. The app lets homeowners turn on lights, sprinklers, air-conditioning, the audio system and even the security system itself.
Another product on the app market is the video surveillance app from AtHome Camera for an iPhone and iPod Touch. For about $8 you can connect the app to the streaming server on your home computer and see the video live from webcams in different areas of the house. You can start, stop and record images on your iPhone and program the server t send an email when motion detection is triggered.
Fake TV, a small plug-in unit, can mimic a real television complete with motion and color changes, it fades and flickers just like 27-inch TV. This gives passers-by the impression someone is home.