The Comprehensive Guide to Smart Home Device Sensors

Property damage can come at a great cost. Fires, water damage, burst pipes, tornados, and theft are just some of the types of damage that account for 97.3 percent of insurance claims according to the Insurance Information Institute – not to mention the damage to people that comes along with disasters like fires and floods.

While luck is sometimes stacked against us, Home Security is using its technology to help level the playing field, with smart home devices that rely on sensors to detect, minimize, and even prevent calamity.

Not only may these devices give you a break on your insurance rates, but they can also help protect your most-valued property.

In this guide, we’ll take a closer look at five smart home devices, including fire, smoke, and carbon monoxide sensors, floors and freeze detectors, motion sensors, smart thermostats, and light sensors.

Five Essential Smart Home Device Sensors:

● Fire, Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Sensors● Flood and Freeze Detectors● Motion Sensors● Smart Thermostats● Smart Lights

Smart Home Fire, Smoke and Carbon Monoxide SensorsWhile smoke and heat detectors have been around for a while, they are now becoming smarter. For example, some smoke alarm sensors can differentiate between burned toast and an actual house fire, so you have a chance to cancel the alarm before it goes off.

Sensor alarms are vitally important because nearly half of home fire deaths result from fires reported between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. – when most people are sleeping.

Other types of pollutants can also threaten our air quality and health. For example, carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless gas that can kill when it is present at high levels. It is important to install CO detectors that sound alarms at danger levels.

Two Benefits of Home Security Fire, Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Sensors

What can you expect after installing an Home Security sensor?

● Smartphone alerts: Home Security has turned smoke and CO detectors into even smarter devices that send push notifications to your smartphone in the event of a fire or CO leak (which is particularly useful if the emergency occurs while you’re away from home and can’t hear the alarm).

● Automatic unlock response: Home Security smart home devices will also unlock exit doors to let in first responders and turn off the air in your home to slow down the spread of fire or deadly gases.

Our Home Security devices are tracked 24/7 by our state-of-the-art monitoring stations.

In the event of a fire or CO leak, the monitoring team immediately notifies the homeowner and contacts emergency

services.

Smart Home Flood and Freeze DetectorsWater and freeze damage takes the number two spot among the leading causes of property damage insurance claims, with the average cost of a home water damage insurance claim is $6,965. A burst water pipe in your home or a small leak in a cottage property closed for the season can cause major destruction.

The sensors on Home Security’s flood detectors can help you minimize damage by catching it early. With battery-powered wireless connectivity, the alarm sensors can easily be installed in places where water damage often occurs, such as appliances connected to water lines and basements prone to water seepage.

Smart Home Motion Sensors

When it comes to smart home security technology, motion sensors play a pivotal role. By detecting movement, they can tell you if someone is in your house or approaching it. Once the smart home sensor picks up the motion, it can alert a monitoring center, which in turn triggers actions such as notifying the homeowner via their smartphone or contacting law enforcement.

Motion sensors can react to someone approaching your doors or windows or moving inside your house. They can even trigger a doorbell as someone gets close to your house. Motion sensors can also alert you when your pet goes into an off-limits area or your teenager tries to sneak out of the house.

● Area Reflective Type – This type of sensor measures the distance to a person or object using a reflection of an infrared ray emitted from an LED.

● Ultrasonic – Ultrasonic sensors send out pulses of ultrasonic waves and measure the reflection of a moving object.

● Vibration – These types of sensors, which are often homemade, detect vibrations but are considered unreliable.

These sensors break down into two categories:● Passive Motion – Uses passive infrared to detect emitted infrared energy or heat.

● Active Motion – Works with sound waves and is often used in automatic doors, such as garage doors.

Most motion sensors today are wireless, so they’re easy to set up. The different types of motion sensors include:

● Passive Infrared (PIR) – The most common kind of motion sensor works by detecting body heat (infrared energy) and movement.

● MicroWave (MW) – This sensor emits microwave pulses that measure the reflection of a moving object.

● Dual Technology – These sensors reduce false alarms by using both PIR and MW technologies. This technology is often employed to detect the motion of animals, so family pets, for example, don’t keep on setting off security alarms.

For windows and doors, Home Security often uses a two-piece magnetic contact sensor. When the system is armed and a door or window is opened, the two magnetic sensors become separated from each other, tripping the alarm.

Home Security also offers a choice of indoor, outdoor, and doorbell cameras that are activated by motion sensors. Typically, these cameras record high-quality videos in even dark or low-light conditions. With your Home Security app on your smartphone, you can watch live video from any of your indoor and outdoor cameras.

Smart Home ThermostatsWith a smart thermostat, you can control the heating and cooling of your house, wherever you are. A good thermostat will let you adjust the temperature separately for every room, so the temperature is comfortable while you are in the room and then goes back to a default energy-saving mode when you leave.

With our Home Security mobile app, you can use your smartphone to control your smart thermostat. You can set up custom alerts so you know when your home gets too cold or warm in your absence. With this functionality, you can ensure that water pipes don’t burst during a freeze or that your pet doesn’t get uncomfortably warm when home alone.

Smart Home LightsSmart home devices with light sensors can work to turn home lights on or off when it gets dark or bright. A smart bulb is a LED light bulb that can be connected to the internet and allows lighting to be customized, scheduled, and controlled remotely.

If you forget to turn off the basement light, the light sensor can do this for you. Using the bulbs’ timers or controlling them with your smartphone, you can set smart light bulbs to go on and off on a schedule, even adjusting their level of brightness throughout the day.

Controlling the smart light bulbs in your house is easy with the Home Security mobile app, which can integrate them with your home security system. You can arrange, for example, for the smart lights to come on automatically if the Home Security smoke or carbon monoxide alarm sounds.

Home Security Smart Home Solutions

At Home Security our sensor-based smart home solutions can help you do everything from controlling your climate and monitoring for fire and carbon monoxide emergencies to keeping you safe from intruders.

To find out what our selection of smart home security services and products can do for you, give us a call. We’re ready to answer any and all of your security questions!

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