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While it's difficult to protect your home from professional thieves, most home burglaries are done by amateurs. These thieves are more easily thwarted if you employ some of these simple security precautions: Plan to "burglarize" yourself. You'll discover any weaknesses in your security plan that may have previously gone unnoticed. Lock up your home, even if you're only going out for a short time. Many burglars look for an unlocked door or window to break in. Change all the lo

Many people wonder if the precautions they are taking are enough to protect their home from intruders. Should you keep your lights on? Will your home security system actually protect you? What are a burglar’s patterns, and what keeps them at bay? A survey was given to 86 inmates serving time for burglary. The inmates were asked to respond anonymously to 17 questions elaborating on how and when they broke in, and what they were looking for. How did you break into a home or apa

In this post, we will discuss the differences between an NVR and a DVR.  The acronym DVR stands for Digital Video Recorder, and the acronym NVR stands for Network Video Recorder.  The term DVR refers to a recorder that records a video signal from an analog feed via coaxial cable. Digital in a DVR means it records to a hard drive. NVRs also use hard drives. The term DVR originated to distinguish the new hard-drive recorders from older VCR recorders. NVR was the term created to