Project Description
Enter, however, your inner geek. Home security services may have their place, if you’re careful to research the company, read their contract carefully, and test their response regularly, but paying someone else to provide and install monitoring electronics?
A security monitoring system is merely a collection of sensors driving a mechanism to generate an alert. There’s a huge variety of sensors you can use, many kinds of alerts, and lots of techniques to prevent accidental triggering or hostile takeover. Nevertheless, at the core, a security system is just sensors, processing, and alarms. This project shows you the common sensors you have available, how they can be used, and some options for how you can generate alerts based on those sensor inputs.