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Be protected, remain safe
By Mehernosh Pithawalla, Head-Marketing, Sales and Innovation, Godrej
Security Solutions
Your home is your abode of peace and you must take the right measures to ensure it is
safe and secure. Mehernosh Pithawalla, Head-Marketing, Sales and Innovation, Godrej
Security Solutions, tells you how to protect your home with the right gadgets and
equipment.
Open the newspaper any day, and you sound out alarms on detection of
will find stories of house and shop break- unauthorised entry. Video door-phones
ins by robbers and burglars. We live in with Wi-Fi connectivity are a boon in
an age where crime is a reality. We can such a scenario. These video door-
no longer live under the impression that phones can allow you access to the
security is something that we can do system over your mobile phones through
without. It is important that we protect internet connectivity. Even when you are
and guard our homes against intruders. away from home, you can speak face-to-
Electronic gadgets and equipment face, akin to a video call, with the person
provide our homes with the necessary who rings your doorbell.
defence against such intrusions.
When someone is at home and an
All electronic security products serve to intruder is trying to break in
defend, detect, deny and deter. There are This is a particularly dangerous situation
layers of security that can do the job of as the intruder might be armed and may
protecting your homes at various stages cause harm to people inside the house.
of entry. These range from sensors that You can install door sensors, glass break
are installed at the outer perimeter of the sensors, and burglar alarm systems.
homes to electronic safes that safely These are wireless devices and do not
protect your valuables inside your require extensive cabling. They are
homes. Broadly, you need to protect your connected to the main panel wirelessly
homes under three different situations: making it easy to install and manage.
These systems have a hooter that will
When there is no one at home sound a loud alarm when someone tries
Your house is vulnerable when there is to break into the house forcefully, thus
no one at home because the intruder can deterring the intruder. Home CCTVs also
make his move without resistance from act as a deterrent for intruders. To be
anyone. To protect your home from doubly secure, you can install electronic
intruders, you can install perimeter locks that are tamper proof.
sensors on the outside wall of your
premises. These will detect if anyone is When the intruder has managed to
trying to get in by climbing the wall and enter in
sound out an alarm. Also, CCTVs can help Electronic safes equipped with burglar
to detect if there is anyone trying to alarm systems are the best products to
break in. There are CCTVs that are keep your valuables safe in the
equipped with motion sensors which can unfortunate event of a robbery. These
