Are you looking for a smarter home security system? Perhaps you want to take advantage of current home surveillance options. Even if you’re not overly concerned about security in your safe Chesterfield, MO neighborhood, if you travel often, have kids or elderly relatives at home, or have pets, there are excellent reasons to invest in a home surveillance installation.

It's no secret that there are a wide variety of surveillance options in the market, from several DIY solutions to professionally installed systems. You will find that many claim very similar features. But there are some critical features that Elite Technology Solutions believes sets some apart from the rest.

Read on to learn more about three things we recommend in home surveillance setups.

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Alerts and Notifications

All current security and surveillance systems include some capability to notify you of various events. If you have a camera trained on the front entry of your house, the field of view may capture the motion of a passing car on the street or people on the sidewalk. You don't need a notification for every movement. Newer systems can define a motion or activity zone, where you only get an alert when there is motion in a specific area of interest. For example, you get an alert when someone approaches your front door, but not when someone only stops on the sidewalk to admire your house. Going further, with cameras inside the house, face detection capabilities can alert you when one of your children is home from school. And if the system doesn't recognize the face, you'll get a different alert!

Continuous Video Footage and Storage

Many of the DIY security camera solutions store video recordings in the cloud. Many of them charge you to view it past a specific date and severely limit the amount of footage they save. We recommend systems that store video at your home with high capacity disks that can hold weeks of footage. Local storage also avoids potential privacy issues with cloud storage. You can still view recordings based on alerts, and if you need to go further back to investigate an incident, you can search through weeks or months of footage with advanced search tools.

Elite can show you the best security and surveillance options for your Missouri home. To learn more, call us today at (636) 939-4474 or visit our contact page. We look forward to working with you.