Home Security Wiring
Building the Wired Home: Elk M1 Home Security System
In some sense, home security systems suffer the same fate as mobile phone handsets. Most people, if they have one, have the one that a security monitoring company installed, and their only interaction with it is to turn it on or off. But some people want more than just a security system. Some people want a security system that can be expanded to perform almost any kind of home monitoring and automation task. You know, lunatics. Lunatic geeks. Enter the Elk M1.
At their heart, security systems are relatively simple circuit board with a lot of inputs and outputs for various sensors and accessories, and some kind of programmable, scriptable capability. When a sensor detects a condition that the installer has determined to indicate a break-in (door opens, motion sensor activates, etc), then the system initiates a series of events, according to the scripts: alarm sounds, police is called, etc. For most security systems, this is the end of the story. But there's no reason you need to restrict the inputs to only intrusion sensors, and there's no reason you need to restrict the outputs to alarms and dialers. If you make the programming and scripting capabilities sophisticated enough, there's no limit to what a system like this could do.
As part of OSNews' ongoing series on home technologies, we worked with a homebuilder to install an Elk M1 system in a new home in Park City, UT. Like all of the stories in this series, our goal was to take generally-available computing devices and bring them together in a way to solve problems that homeowners face, without spending a lot of money. In this case, we wanted to centralize all of the home's monitoring and automation tasks into one reliable device. Even though we had put a lot of thought into ways that a commodity PC could be used as...
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How to Wire a Motion Detector to an Alarm Control Panel
www.HomeSecurityStore.com In this video Home Security Store Technician Matt Apperson shows us how to wire a Motion Detector to a Home Alarm Panel ...
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Hi-Res Indoor/Outdoor Night Vision CCD Security Camera (BrickHouse Electronics LLC) Price: Capture Footage in Complete Darkness with Automatic Switching Nightvision Camera Nightvision with 12 IR LEDs that Activate Automatically at Night View a Clear, Crisp Picture and Positively Identify Suspicious Individuals Weather Resistant Housing Protects the Camera when Mounted... |
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Remote Control IR Deadbolt Keyless Lock (BrickHouse Electronics LLC) Price: Complete with anti-infrared code grabbing and deadbolt capabilities, no unauthorized guests will be able to enter your home.Features: One button remote control entry Easily open the door when your hands are full with the press of a button Convenient for kids or people with... |
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3-In-1 Deadbolt Lock (Brass) (BrickHouse Electronics LLC) Price: Keypad entry restricts and controls who has access to your home because you can add and delete codes as you please. Using radio frequency technology, this keyless lock lets you open the door with the press of a remote control, which you don't even have to point the remote at the lock.... |
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Reversible Right/Left Hand Fingerprint Lock (BrickHouse Electronics LLC) Price: By installing a keyless fingerprint lock, you are arming your home with the strongest security available: biometric fingerprint technology. With this technology, you never have to worry about the wrong person gaining entry to your home or business because the lock uses no keys or codes. This... |
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Remote Control RF Deadbolt Keyless Lock (BrickHouse Electronics LLC) Price: Your entire family can take advantage of this technology, which comes standard with two remote control but accepts up to 30. Features: One button remote control entry Easily open the door when your hands are full with the press of a button Convenient for kids or people with... |
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