An average of 1,500 burglaries occur every day in Britain. The case for installing a burglar alarm hardly needs making – particularly when you consider the difference that alarms can make. Less than 1% of break-ins occur in homes with effective alarm systems. The days when the price or inconvenience of installing an alarm might put property owners off have been and gone. With the coming of age of wireless alarm technology, there has never been a more practical and cost-effective way of keeping burglars where you want them – off your premises.

Wireless burglar alarms operate differently from their hard-wired counterparts in that the component parts (control panel, sensors and alarm) communicate via a transmitted radio signal, rather than electrical connections across the whole system. But beside this fundamental difference, the actual method for detecting intrusion remains the same.

In the majority of cases, this is based on motion detection using Passive Infrared technology (which works Continue reading →