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Home Security Systems (Intruder Alarm)

With the burglary rate increasing rapidly, it is essential to get protected with a Professional Security System. At Tel Cam, we offer an affordable Smart Home Alarm System to keep you safe!

Visit www.police.uk to get information on the burglary statistics in your area.

Choose your Notification:

For your Home Security Alarm, there is a few different choices of what you would like to happen when it ‘goes off’:

Bells-only Alarms – make a noise, but don’t contact anyone (such as the police or you).
Dialer Burglar Alarms – automatically dial your phone number, or that of nominated friends and family, when the alarm is triggered.
Smart Home-Security Systems – contact you or family members when the alarm goes off through a smartphone or tablet app.
A Police Monitored System – means you pay a company monthly or annually to take action to call the police if the alarm goes off.

Wired or Wireless Alarm System:

Next step is to work out if you would like to opt for a Wireless Alarm System or the traditional Wired Alarm system.
Nowadays, both systems are very similarly priced.
Wireless Home Alarm Systems which are fully insurance approved can be fitted for as little as £199 by Tel Cam.
Another benefit of a Wireless alarm system is that they are very neat and tidy as you do not have to worry about exposed cabling. This can be crucial in a decorated house.

What is an insurance approved system?

Insurance approved alarm system are Home alarm systems which have been fitted by professional firms like Tel-Cam who are NSI (National Security Inspectorate) Gold Approved to a British Standard that can be verified by your insurance company which drastically can make you eligible to a discount on your home insurance.

Dialler burglar alarm

You may not be comfortable with the idea of relying on a neighbour to let you know if your alarm goes off, then the next alternative is to consider a dialler alarm. With a dialler alarms, the dialler will contact you when your alarm is triggered. This means that you or they can then contact the police or ask a neighbour to investigate the issue. There are two types of dialler alarm: Speech diallers use your landline to call the numbers you have assigned.

This means you’ll need to have a landline, and wires connecting it to the alarm. GSM diallers use mobile network signals, so you don’t need a phone line and there’s no need to run wires. But you will have to buy a Sim card and make sure it’s topped up with enough credit to make the calls when needed. You’ll also need to make sure your home has a strong mobile phone signal before you go ahead.

Smart home-security systems

Smart home-security systems connect to your smartphone or tablet. This enables you to be alerted when your alarm is triggered.

These systems also allow you to control your smart security from your phone, even when you’re away from home.

This can be extremely beneficial, for example, if you’re out and you can’t remember if you turned your security alarm system on, you can simply login to the mobile app and check and even active it with ease. There are a lot of different accessories which can be connected to your smart home security.

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Police Monitored Alarm Systems

If you cannot get to your house fast enough or you work or stay out of the area, you could consider a burglar alarm with a monitoring contract. You can get monitoring contracts for wired or wireless alarms, but both the alarm itself and the installation must conform to certain standards, this is where Tel Cam Alarms come in as they fit systems to a minimum of Grade 2 (Grade 3-Used at premises with very high value goods , Grade 4 – used at banks, vaults, etc…).

Keyholder Response:

House Alarm is connected to a monitoring station who then notify the nominated keyholders that the alarm has been activated.

Police Response:

Burglar Alarm is Connected to a monitoring station and when two point of activations are triggered the alarm centre give you a call as well as sending the police to your property in priority as you are paying for this service.Surprisingly, the price difference between keyholder response and police response is not much and we recommend the police response as that way you have complete peace of mind that your home is protected.