The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker is an important book about human behavior.

While this book focuses primarily on violent crimes against people, these underlying principles apply to all levels of crime against people and property.

Learn to:

• Recognize the signals that warn you of risk
• Separate real from imagined danger
• Assess dangers posed by strangers
• Help your loved ones be safer
• Protect your personal property
• Rely on your intuition

Some simple inexpensive steps that you can take to protect your home.

DOORS
▪ Use a solid core or metal door for all entrance points
▪ Use a quality, heavy-duty, deadbolt lock with a one-inch throw bolt
▪ Use a heavy-duty, four-screw, strike plate with 3-inch screws to penetrate into a wooden door frame

SLIDING GLASS DOORS & WINDOWS
▪ Use a secondary blocking device on all sliding glass doors and windows.
▪ Use anti-lift devices such as through-the-door pins or upper track screws
▪ Use highly visible alarm decals

BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR
▪ Agree to watch out for each other’s home
▪ While on vacation, pick up newspapers, mail, etc
▪ Offer to park your car in their driveway
▪ Return the favor and stay in touch

LIGHTING
▪ Use interior light timers to establish a pattern of occupancy
▪ Exterior lighting should allow 100 foot visibility
▪ Use good lighting along the pathway and at your door
▪ Use light timers or photo-cells to turn on/off lights automatically
▪ Use infra-red motion sensor lights on the rear of single family homes

Wireless transmission of video is a good option when it is not feasible to run cable.

Large industrial facilities, gated communities and remote locations are a few examples of good wireless applications.

Our favorite wireless mesh network hardware/software is from Qorvus Systems. They deliver high performance, industrial grade wireless mesh networks at very competitive pricing. Their service and support is first class.

A well thought out perimeter protection system combined with a video security system is a very powerful combination of tools to help protect your facility and assets.