Home burglaries have been steadily decreasing over the last few years due to the increase in home alarm systems being installed in more and more homes.
Many home builders are now including an alarm system when they construct new houses.
Mostly due to the popularity of a recent movie starring Jodi Foster, "safe rooms" are being installed to give homeowners added security in the case of a home invasion.
While the occurrence of these home invasions seem to be on the rise, and a far more frightening idea then a simple burglary committed while your family isn't home, a safe room may not be all it seems to be at first glance.
Safe Rooms 24/7? Is a safe room the end all of your security needs and concerns? Not likely and here is why.
While some crimes such as empty home burglaries can be committed at any and all hours, most home invasions occur in the late night hours when most people have gone to sleep.
The intent of the criminal is strictly to catch you off guard, a surprise attack.
In cases like this, getting to your safe room is not a viable idea as you would not have the time to even get to the safe room.
So regardless of how "safe" your safe room is, without an exceptional security system that alerts you as soon as a burglar even attempts to enter your home you are still putting yourself and your family at undue risk every night.
Your Phone Line Although most people rely heavily on phones to help transmit cries for help to 911, in a security system, those traditional phone lines can be cut or go down for some reason denying your alarm system the ability to send your alarm signals out.
The right security system with a wireless backup unit will protect you at all time even without a traditional phone line.
This can also be a nice feature with many who may not subscribe to landline services any longer and just use their cellular phones for communications.
In the past an alarm system required a hard-line phone but now they can function very well with wireless.
With violent crimes on the rise, a quality alarm system can give you the peace of mind knowing you will be alerted if someone tries to break into your home and the authorities will be automatically notified that you require assistance.