Benefits of a Wireless Burglar Alarm

By: Wayne Smithton


Defense, safety, and the ability for you to relax are all things a wireless burglar alarm in your home can provide. A wireless burglar alarm offers many benefits for all households no matter where you live or the value of your belongings. Since break-ins can occur anywhere at any time and in only seconds, securing your home should be a top priority.

The common misconceptions about wireless burglar alarms are that they are complicated, expensive, and unnecessary. A lot of people feel that a wireless burglar alarm is unaffordable. But a wireless burglar alarm is affordable for most people, and it often ultimately saves money by lowering the price of homeowners insurance. Professional installation of a wireless system does not have to cost thousands of dollars; the majority of security companies will install one for a few hundred dollars.

Purchasing a wireless burglar alarm and installing it yourself can save you money. You only need to place window and door contacts and plug the control panel into the phone jack and your wireless burglar alarm will be completely installed. Next, you can choose whether or not your system will be monitored remotely by a monitoring company, which can also be very inexpensive, not costing any more than any other utility bill, possibly even less.

Most people think that it is not necessary to have wireless burglar alarms. A lot of people have the preconceived notion that, if they reside in an ordinary home and not in a “rich neighborhood,” their home will not be burglarized. This is false. Often a burglary will occur because the house does not have an alarm and is the easier target. Yes, even if it is a small home or not in a wealthy community, your home is a target for a robbery.

Another common misconception is that a burglar will not stop if there is an alarm. But as homes with alarm systems are more difficult to break into, most burglars try and avoid them. Most burglars pick out the first house that appears to have easier access, since the majority of the burglars are not professionals but opportunists. If there is an easier house to break into elsewhere, they will quickly bypass the house with the alarm system.

Though some people think that, by cutting wires, a burglar can easily disarm an alarm system, that scenario doesn't come into play with a wireless burglar alarm. Likewise, there are others who feel that, rather than being a deterrent, installing a wireless burglar alarm will instead make their property seem more valuable, more in need of protecting, and thereby more attractive to burglars. Once again, a thief is not very confident and will choose the less challenging house to break into.

The burglar alarm increases safety. Since even average homes have TVs, appliances, movies, games, cable boxes, and other belongings regularly sought after by burglars, having a burglar alarm does not indicate that you have valuable property. Any home, even those with ordinary belongings, can benefit from a wireless burglar alarm.


Wayne Smithton knows that adt security are not for normal household budgets. But that doesn’t mean that a wireless home alarm is superfluous. A good wireless alarm system can save a family from losing valuable possessions or even their lives, which is worth a little bit of money. So now Wayne includes a wireless burglar alarm in his monthly budget.