5 New Phone Apps that give Homeowners Smart Security

While on vacation or away from home during a business trip, homeowners often worry about their home’s safety. But as app technology continues to develop, more and more homeowners have a wide range of smartphone apps to help them keep tabs on their property remotely or to notify them if there is a security breech. Here are 5 of those terrific app options.

1. Pulse By ADT

According to the United States government, 2013 had more than 2 million reported burglaries, or one about every 15 seconds.

In larger, high-crime cities, some of the crime statistics are simply startling. With more and more people looking to update their home with a new security and automation system, security companies are providing the highest technology security to date.

ADT, one of the most well-known security companies, has a home automation app that allows users to check the status of their home through their app. For those in higher crime areas like Los Angeles or Chicago, having the ADT Los Angeles app or ADT Chicago app is a wise tool to ensure complete home security.

This app offers advanced services that allow users to manage their ADT service by remotely arming and disarming the user’s home alarm, receiving text messages and email alerts about family members arriving home safely, and viewing a live video feed of their home.

2. iCam

Smartphone users can easily monitor multiple home security cameras within their home. If the motion sensor is triggered on the camera, the user will receive a notification on their phone. Users can watch a live video stream of what’s happening in their home.

3. SecureHome

Using a built-in microphone on a desktop computer, this app monitors the home by listening for noises that generally indicate an intruder or possible predator. If an intruder is suspected, the app will sound an alarm and send an email alert to the user’s phone.

This app also works remotely. If the users forget to set the app when they left, they can easily arm the app from wherever they are.

4. At Home

This app connects to a user’s home computer, turning it into a surveillance camera that is well designed and easy to use. This app must be activated through a smartphone or tablet and can be downloaded as the AtHome Camera Free. Next, users need to download the AtHome Video Streamer onto their home computer.

These two apps work together. When the computer app detects motion, a 30-second video will automatically be recorded and sent to the user’s phone.

5. iSmartAlarm

This app must be used in conjunction with the Wi-Fi camera it is compatible with. The app can be downloaded for free on an iPhone or iPad, and once the system is activated, screenshots of a user’s home will be sent via text, email, or phone call if any motion is detected within the house.

These apps allow users to control their home security from wherever they are, giving them more power over their home’s safety when they are not there to protect it.

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