Generally speaking, when it comes to family outings, everyone is busy with gathering with friends and traveling, and for thieves, they are not idle either. If you are not careful, you may become their prey. So, how should we protect house while away?

In our concept, as long as we close the doors and windows and improve the surrounding protective measures, we can avoid the trouble of thieves again. But is the fact so simple?

• Community security – NO

Nowadays, many residential buildings have achieved relatively complete management, and even some communities have installed access control measures at the entrance to prevent unauthorized people from entering. It cannot be denied that these security measures have indeed provided us with a lot of protection for our safety. It has added an important barrier to the periphery of our lives. However, it is probably clear to everyone that relying solely on the perimeter protection of the community to ensure the safety of their own property is clearly unrealistic. Especially during the holiday, which is a time of intensive personnel flow, the difficulty of implementing community security will definitely be greater than before, and loopholes will be more obvious than before.

• Anti-theft doors and windows – NO

Many people may think that the security of the community is a simple protection for us. The true security guarantee still relies on our own efforts, such as installing protective nets or anti-theft doors, which are very effective. However, are they really foolproof?

Nowadays, when it comes to anti-theft doors and anti-theft nets on windows, there are probably not many families that do not have them. However, their popularity did not cause thieves to lose their jobs as initially imagined. Although there is no obvious negligence in anti-theft doors and windows from the perspective of theft methods, it is still difficult to prevent thieves from illegally entering. So, if we simply desire the anti-theft net to be effective, it may be more of an opportunity for the other party to take advantage of.

• Burglar alarm systems- NO

The home burglar alarm system is a passive defensive alarm measure. It only sends out an alarm signal after discovering some abnormal phenomena or illegal elements entering our private area, so it is more of a passive work. If we encounter a “malicious thief” who cuts off the power before entering the door, our burglar alarm system may become more of a decoration. So, although burglar alarm systems provide us with a lot of security assistance, they still cannot protect the safety of our homes from the source.

So, what should we do after a family outing to protect house?

From the above analysis, we can see that even with three kinds of defense, it is impossible to completely prevent the intrusion of criminals. Does our safety really have no guarantee at all? Don’t panic about this, we need to take some security measures to protect house as much as possible.

In fact, although the three kinds of defense mentioned above have loopholes, they are also important ways for thieves to break into our lives. So, we still need to further improve on this idea. Of course, we cannot control the security of the community, so our work starts  on our own.

1 How to use the anti-theft door?

The anti-theft door can be said to be the most important part of our security work. Because it is both the first effective barrier for our family’s safety and the last barrier for our family’s safety protection. Therefore, the use of anti-theft doors has become a decisive factor in whether our homes are “visited” or not. Some users, for the convenience, often only touch the door without locking it, that is, close the door and forget to lock the door. For some highly skilled veterans, sometimes they can easily determine the locking status of the door with just a gentle swipe, and they mostly use this method to choose their target.

So, when we go out, we must pay attention to making full use of the door lock. In general, modern anti-theft doors often have two or more locking controls. Before leaving home, we must patiently lock them before leaving to prevent thieves from thinking of breaking in. Of course, the quality of anti-theft doors also affects our anti-theft effectiveness and even the outcome of whether they attract thieves. The thickness of the steel plate (the thickness of the door), the number of lock holes, the size and sealing degree of the peephole glasses also greatly affect our security protection effect.

2 How to configure the burglar alarm system?

As we mentioned earlier, home burglar alarm systems are mostly passive. Unable to fundamentally block the thief’s entry. But that doesn’t mean it’s just a useless object.

When choosing burglar alarm systems, it is best to choose protective devices with network communication functions, so that in case of special situations at home, we can receive messages in a timely manner and respond quickly, reducing or eliminating our losses. In addition, for some devices with video functions, it is best to configure devices with network power supply, real-time transmission, or front-end storage functions to ensure that even if the power supply equipment is damaged by prepared criminals, it can still work normally and leave us valuable clues. Of course, if our burglar alarm systems could communicate with nearby security agencies, it would undoubtedly be a better outcome.

3 How to do a good job in protecting house?

No security device is as effective as our vigilance, but how to use and think about our vigilance is also very knowledgeable.

For example, when away, we must not show too many signs of leaving home. For some obvious aspects, such as the newspapers or other items we order on a daily basis, we may as well ask our familiar neighbors or friends to keep them on our behalf. And for some small advertisements on the door, we also need to trouble our neighbors to clean them up from time to time, so as not to become a reference for thieves.

In addition, for some window environments, we can also make some adjustments, such as partially opening and closing our curtains (fully opening makes it easier for people to see the inside situation, while fully closing them may imply special circumstances in the room). If we have a habit of placing shoes at the door, we can ask trusted neighbors around to help us change the category of the hem there from time to time. Although these are all small tricks, sometimes they can help us avoid thieves’ choices.

In fact, from the above summary, we can find two points:

• Firstly, no security equipment can completely block the entry of thieves, even if we install advanced burglar alarm systems, it is difficult to achieve foolproof measures.
• Secondly, in fact, the thief is not much smarter than us. His behavior is also following the same path as ours, but often his success is due to being more attentive than us.

So, in this society, there is no perfect security equipment, only the most perfect prevention measures. As long as we do our job well, even if we still cannot stop the attention and concern of thieves from the source, we can try our best to minimize the losses as much as possible.