Security

Many valuable items kept in your home are small enough to conveniently place in a safe. Though it’s less common to store documents there, now that computers have taken over the job, you may have a hand-signed will or old family photos you want to protect. If you have antique or rare stamps, manuscripts, baseball [...]

Older burglar alarms were fairly elementary. A door or window was opened at the wrong time and an alarm went off, either in the house or at a remote location or both. Installing them required adding wiring and attached devices – an expensive propostion. But security systems have evolved greatly over the past twenty years, [...]

One of the less well-advertised aspects of the PC and Internet revolution is its impact on home automation security systems. A combination of software and hardware can provide video surveillance cameras with intelligent tracking. They can, for example, come on when you leave the home and turn off when you arrive. They can be programmed [...]