How Home Burglar Alarms Function
For city-dwellers, home burglar alarms have progressed from the barking of a family pet to state-of-the-art circuit systems. Understanding how they function will help you select the ideal burglar alarm system for your home, and perhaps give you the necessary background on how to maintain and utilize it properly. Here is a simplified explanation of how the system actually works.
Home burglar alarms are like electrical circuits, in that you are required to turn on a switch to activate a certain appliance. In the case of a burglar alarm, the intruder’s movements act as the turning on of the switch. The “switch” that he triggers activates the “appliance”, which is the sound of the alarm.