So how to protect your home with limited budgets ? The best way is DIY.
Herein I would like to share some information about how to DIY your home alarm system. These tips may also help for warehouse and small shop small security protection.

Before decide to DIY, you should analysis your house or apartment. Check how many windows and doors of your house. The best way is pretend to be intruder and think where are the entry point and access point that intruders can enter into.

For the windows and doors, you can install the magnetic contact (also called reed switch). Magnetic door contact is very cheap and reliable sensors for checking the open and close status of your windows and doors.

For the bedroom and interior house, you can choose the PIR motion sensors. PIR (Passive Infra-red ) motion sensors can detect the movement at day and night. Please note that normal PIR also is sensitive to pets. If you have pets running inside your house, it may trigger the false alarm, so you’d better to choose the Pet-immune (or pet-friendly) Motion sensors. Dual-tech (PIR + Microwave) motion sensors are with reliable and low false rate performance.By the way, If your house have not installed any fire alarm system or smoke detector, then now it’s the best time to install the smoke detectors. Most of alarm systems with intrusion detection and fire detection, medical help functions.

Now we already designed the protection for interior house, now we should to consider the outside of your house.

The protection for outside of your house is more important then interior. The reason is you may not want the intruder enter into your house and then alarm will be trigger. This will let you and your property in danger. For the outside protection, the best equipment is Active Infra-red Beam Sensor and Outdoor Motion Sensors.

Active Infra-red Beam Sensor comes with transmitter and receiver. The beam sensor will emit infra-red beams (invisible) and circle around your house. It will create a invisible fence around your boundaries. Due to the protection can reach up to 300 meters, so you can only use one beam detector for each side of house.  The disadvantages of Active Infra-red Beam Sensor is it is  sensitive to the any movement projects, but with dual-beam and triple, quad beams design, it can reduce the false alarm caused by pets. If the vehicle pass among the beams detector and cut multi-beams, it will trigger the alarm.

Majority of Outdoor Motion Sensors are using the dual detection technology to reduce the false alarm. Outdoor Motion Sensor can detect the space with wide angle of 120 degree and range up to 14meters.

Another tips for people that want to purchase security alarm system to protect their’s property. When choose the alarm system, you should select a very powerful and loud siren. This can helps you a lot on deter intrusion and awake you and your neighbours at night.

A true story from our customers:

Hello.  I am an American woman.  I just got robbed 2 weeks ago.  My dog was shaking when I got home.  It is a terrible feeling when your home has been invaded.  Since they got most everything, I thought just a few window alarms would be just fine.  But I thought again and decided I need an alarm system to satisfy me while I am away from home or sleeping.

You have alot of different systems.  So maybe you can tell me which one would be best for my needs.  I need a wireless system that can call my cell phone.  I would also need 10 window alarms and 4 door alarms.  And a very loud siren for indoor and outdoor use.  The systems in the United states are very expensive and would cost way over 1,000 dollars!
I would appreciate any help you may give me.

Christmas Holiday is the golden time for burglaries. How to avoid the Christmas burglaries ? Except keep some of home security and safety tips and precautions for home owners, the other option is to install a cost-effective burglar alarm systems.
some tipes for home security:

1. Install the high quality and stronge locks for windows and doors.
2. Lock all the doors and windows when at night or everytime you leave your home.
3. Don’t forget to take the keys, if lost the key, change the locks immediately.
4. Make an insurance for your valuable items, and keep them in hidden places.
5. If the intruder is at home, leave safely if you can, then call police. If an intruder in your room, try to pretend you are asleep.

We provide totally self-installation and cost-effective burglar alarm systems for home owner. The home owner doesn’t need to sign the contract and pay the monthly monitoring fees.

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In this tutorial,  we will show you how to program alarm receiver numbers and extra wireless detectors to work with our G70 alarm system.

Operation Steps:

1. Press “SET”, enter input default password, then select the menu [auto dialers], press “ENT”.

2. The LCD display 1. Call Center, enter the phone numbers, press “ENT”, then you can select auto dial or SMS report, press “up” key and “down” key to select, then press “ENT” to make the confirmation.  This is for the central monitoring station phone number programming. If you want to use third party monitoring service, then you need to do this.

In this video we set 28901540 as the alarm receiving number for central monitoring station.

3. After finished the programming central monitoring station number, the LCD will display personal number, then input the personal phone number or mobile phone number, then make the selection whether auto dialing call or send SMS report.

In this video we set 13622364334 as the second alarm receiving personal number, and select SMS report.

4.  After finished second group of personal number, you can program the rest, or you can press “ESC” to return to previous step.

5. Press “ESC”, navigate to [Program Sensor],  then delete the default zone number 00, and input the new zone number (21), press “ENT”, the delete the default group number 0, and input 1, after that select the[ activate sensor].  Now the LCD will display “Learning”, then trigger the wireless detector. If the alarm system can receive the wireless signal, the alarm system will display “Success”.  If the zone already programmed wireless sensors, the alarm system will show update exist detector menu.

In this video, we program our VS-WH400 into 21 zones, in group 1.

6. After finished the programming, you can add extra wireless sensors, or press “ESC”.  Exit the programming status, then trigger the wireless detector, the alarm system will show the alarm information (21 Motion).

Part A: Program keypad to alarm system

Wireless keypad need to program into alarm system, the program procedures is the same of programming wireless remote controllers.
step 1: let your alarm system on program sensor menu.

step 2: input the zone numbers, it can be “00″ or “01″, groups numbers can be 00-04 (totally can program 4 wireless keypad or remote controllers for each zone), select “Activate Sensor”, the screen will display “Learning”

Step 3 (important): press “Emergency button”  on the wireless keypad, then the alarm system will display “Success”  on the LCD.

Now you can Arm / Disarm the alarm system via wireless keypad.

Part B: Sync the wireless keypad

Why need Sync the wireless keypad ?  After Sync the wireless keypad, the wireless keypad can show the alarm information, and Arm/Disarm status of alarm system.

Step 1:  Input the password, and selecting “Main Unit Sync”

Step 2: Select “Activate”

Step 3: press the “Emergency button”  of the alarm system, then wireless keypad will display the “Success” on the LCD.

At last,  if you don’t know where is the panic button, please check the picture below:

Emergency Button

When you purchased a set of hardwired alarm system for your home or business (shop, warehouse…etc), and would like to install them by yourself, then you may need to know who to connect (wire) hardwired magnetic contact.

For installation of alarm system, wire wired magnetic contact is the simplest installation, but sometimes, for non-professional, they will face the difficulties.

Wire Magnetic Contact Diagram

R  is EOL Resistor, for our alarm system is 2.2K Ohm.  Nowadays every hardwired alarm system with EOL resistor design which can protect the line-cut and line short-circuit.

Z+   and Z-   need to connect to wired zones,  for our alarm system (G70-GTW, G40-W, G71-GTW), Z-  is GND (or negative of power supply).

Most of hardwired sensors (detectors) are Normally Closed (NC).

Example of adhere type of Magnetic Contact

Note: White wire is Z+,   Black wire is Z-

Example of Conceal Magnetic Contact Wiring

Example of Roller Shutter Door Magnetic Contact

Check our wide range of magnetic contact: http://www.hkvstar.com/technology-news/181-how-to-choose-magnetic-contact-for-alarm-system-.html

Solar Street LED light

What’s more street lights increase at speed of 200 million sets each year, at present more than 90% of light sources uses high-pressure sodium lights. Luminous efficiency of this light source is high, but it has disadvantages of short lifetime, great power consumption, low color temperature, bad color rendering index, besides including mercury etc poisonous substances; sooner or later this light source will die out.

LED stree lights increase at fast speed since Technology Department put forward plan for promoting vigorously. However, it’s a pity that 90% of LED lights instead of traditional high-pressure sodium lights. It’s estimated conservatively that total lights will not be more than 2 million sets, this quantity is only as many as one-tenth of yearly increased street lights.

It’s suitable for our national condition to put forward the development of solar street LED lights, meanwhile it’s major event for energy saving and emission reduction. It totally doesn’t need to waste lost of financial resources to  build dam or immigrate people as what we did for building Sanxia Hydropower station.

Advantages of solar street LED lights:

1. Solar energy supplies electricity: Green, environment friendly, saving-energy, and zero energy wasting, complete to generate electricity.

2. Easy to install: Convenient to install, don’t need to dig channels and bury cables, save labor cost and resource cost.

3. High Brightness: LED light 100W can replace high-pressure sodium light 250W; LED light is more than 2.5 times as energy saving as high-pressure sodium light.

4. Long life Span: pressure-sodium light 4000 hours, LED 50000 hours; don’t need to change LED light in 14 years, free maintenance.

5. Low investment: One time investment, and no maintenance cost.

solar portable system utilizes solar modules to convert solar energy to electricity saved in storage battery. Storage battery is protected by control system from over-charging and over-discharging. Inverter changes direct-current electricity in storage battery  to alternative-current electricity, which provides power for lighting, radio, TV set, refrigerator and other electronic equipments.  Solar portable system can be used in poor countryside, village, subdistrict and other areas lack of electricity.

Solar Partable System

The systems will be used for:

• Vehicle scanning in drive-through inspection; capable of scanning even moving automobiles, people, containers, etc for concealed threats and contraband.
• High-throughput screening and collection of information even to a remote processing unit.
To ensure a competent follow through process, we intend to co-opt some security/government agencies into the system. These central control centre as well as the agencies will be alerted in real-time if threats are suspected and/or found. More so, other necessary information that will help them avert/grab the suspects will be possibly provided to them between intervals by the system and in real-time.

However, for the purpose of follow through and quick response to averting the suspects/or suspected threat, we intend to first integrate agencies as follows:

1. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC)

2. The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and

3. The Nigeria Police force (NPF) (as well as any other appointed agency)

With safe technology, these agencies will serve as the preliminary agencies to be integrated into this system. However, we anticipate more agencies like NEMA, Road safety, etc to join the network and share information garnered to ensure better performance and furthering of the system.
Nonetheless, the central control centre will run an integrated Information Management organization to resolve communication and threat situations in real time.
NB: We may if need be, incorporate into the system, an Automatic Vehicle Locating System (AVLS) using satellite systems. This module of the system will be used to follow the car once suspected. The module will be accessed from the control centre and from whence information will be forwarded to other designations.

THE TURNKEY STRATEGY AND SOLUTION

The system will be made up of two main units, the control system and the detection system. The main control centre will be made up of secure connections linked to the office location, monitoring events in real-time with communication equipments with audio Visio capability and information dissemination facilities. Nonetheless, the other part will be made up the scanning/detection gantries.
We intend to deploy three bordering and sophisticated system units at the major entrances into the city. These main entrances units will be mainly monitoring all the vehicles coming into and going out of the city; Abuja and logs information about everything coming into the city and monitor it until it leaves the city. These entrances are as follows:

THE TURNKEY STRATEGY AND SOLUTION

However, there will be smaller gantry units of the system that will be deployed strategically within the city to complement a unified and coordinated system. These other units will be planned and located at places that any commuter must pass through/use while trying to enter or move about within or into the city. The units must be strategically positioned to ensure maximum and synchronized coverage of the city without possible bypass of the system. Planning and location of the units is such that every commuter must pass through the units within his route to his location. These smaller units will equally be integrated into the central control system and as well linked with the main units for share of information and handshake. These smaller units will equally be in-charge of monitoring events within the city; trying to locate threats from cars already inside the city.
However, if either of the units located at the main entrances of the city notices or detects any activity, it will report to the control centre as well as the mini monitoring units situated with the co-opted agencies. More so, it will report the activity to the other gantry units located in the city to look out for the said car. Hence, these units within the city will be used to track the movement of the vehicle within the city, identify possible targets and possibly decipher the main target which they will report to the control centre. More so, the units within the system will routinely monitor the movement of cars within the city and share information amongst each other to ensure efficiency in operation.
Another vital role of the smaller units is to act intelligently in detecting possible suspects trying to maneuver the system. Thus, if a unit scans a car, it will first cross check that the car passed through possible units before it. If there is no knowledge of the said car being checked by previous units, the car will be reported and authorities will act in accordance.

Wireless Communication Link Diagram

When you start to setup a shop, or need to install surveillance system; or you want to monitoring your home with surveillance system, when you are located in different city or outside for traveling.

In this article, we will give you some tips on purchasing and selecting surveillance camera.

Function

For some user, if want to install a surveillance camera which want to scare the intruders out of home or shop, then a normal surveillance camera is suitable for this situation.

But for most of users, install surveillance camera not only scare the intruders, but also can get the proof from the recording video, so they purchase surveillance camera carefully.

Resolution: Image & Detail

Normally, when emergency incidents happened and need to play the record video, security guard (or police man) can get the clear and detail view of illegal actions.

But, it’s difficult when we need to check the details (for example, the face of thief).

The reality is we often face this kind of problem: enlarge the so-called high resolution image’s detail, then it will cause mosaic, and can’t get any valuable information, that’s the problem of low resolution of surveillance camera.

So before purchase the surveillance camera, user need to consider the resolution of surveillance camera firstly, and know how much resolution can meet you solution.

Illumination: Dark and Bright Environment

Except the size of resolution, illumination also is a problem when purchasing surveillance camera.

The reason is surveillance camera with narrow illumination adjustable scale, it can not take the clear view on the dark side and bright side simultaneously, this lead to dark side will be very dark, and bright side will be very bright.

So, for some specific installation environment, like door exit and enter, installation camera will face the counter-light problem, when it’s not possible to adjust the position of surveillance camera, then you should to choose Wide Dynamic Camera or with back-light compensation function surveillance camera to solve the counter-light problem.

Sensitivity: Day & Night

In some places, the surveillance need to run 24hours, especially intrusion rate is high at night, so this requires surveillance camera can get the clear view (high quality video) at night. But, at night, the surveillance environment is dark,  it still can get the clear view. Even the surveillance environment is different, but good surveillance camera can get the clear view.

For same camera, they can get clear view at day, but they  get dark image at night.

This situation is related to the sensitivity of surveillance camera, low sensitivity surveillance camera is with weak sensitive for visible light or infrared light. So when purchasing security camera, need to check if the camera can get clear view (high quality image) at night.

Price Sector

Many client are willing to purchase security camera with famous brand, and thought the quality is reliable, but we should remind you that nowadays security camera are the same in the market, famous brand products are the same quality of cameras in the market.

It’s sure that users are inclined to purchase low price products, and bargaining the price, so many manufacturer without basic profit, for this situation, we would say, what we can provide for the quality service.

After-sales service

The best after-sales service is doesn’t need the after-sales service, but it’s not possible.

Many users are not willing to contact with after sales.

But, even people will get sick, what about the products, products with small problem is not evitable, now we need to consider the after-sale service.

Security product’s after-sales does not simply include repairing and service, the content including the product’s quality, repair service, parts (components) supply, technical information support and guidance or training…etc.

For different manufacturer, there is different rules for the after-sales service, before purchase products, user must get these information.

Except that, Voltage support, S/N radio, and auto vari-focal…etc is also some information we need to consider, before we purchase the surveillance camera. After purchased camera, installation must be careful, should follow the instruction manual.

Now due to the mature of silicon solar panel technology, more and more people are using the silicon solar panel as of the sources of power supply.

The beauty of silicon solar panel is it costs less money, and the life-span of panel can be 25 year or 30 years (continuous working), In addition, it is one of  the most clean and green technology in the world.

Why silicon solar panel can work in security system ? what are the advantages ?

Now we are still facing the problem on the outside protection on using the conventional alarm system.

The reason is using alarm system need to use the power, if alarm system are installed outside, then it’s hard to provide the power supply for them, even we can use the battery for alarm system, but the batter’s life-span is very short.

(normally dry (or Li-ion) battery only can work small sensors or detection device).

The advantage of solar panel is it can provide the continuous (rechargeable battery for backup) power supply for alarm device, and due to need the sunlight, so it need to work outside, recently many companies are providing solar panel powered perimeter alarm systems.

Silicon Solar Panel Working Theory

How to connect to solar panel ?

Before use the solar panel, you need to get the clear idea that solar panel will not work at night, then you need to add a rechargeable battery as backup for keep your alarm device working at night.

Solar Panel Security Alarm System Connection

Notes: Do not use the IR beam detector build-in with solar panel, the reason is every professional staff knows that IR beam detector can not installed the environment which is facing the direct sunlight.

Using the separate solar panel can solve this problem.

Now Start Your Solar Powered Perimeter Alarm System less than US $100, contact our sales: http://www.hkvstar.com/contact-us.html

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