Live Video Monitoring: Proactive Home Security

What does a proactive approach to home security make you think of? Home security systems with alarm monitoring and smart home features like automated lights, locks, and doorbell cameras certainly save time and offer more awareness for homeowners. Even surveillance cameras that record events in progress can act as a deterrent against potential crime.

 

But what about a more proactive approach to your home security? As criminals become more sophisticated in breaking into homes and businesses, individuals need more advanced security solutions. Enter: live video monitoring.

What Is Live Video Monitoring?

As its name suggests, live video monitoring means your camera feeds aren’t merely recording crime and events as they happen. Instead, a trained expert monitors cameras on your property in real-time, allowing for fast, decisive action when suspicious activity occurs.

 

Stopping crime before it occurs is no longer a science fiction fantasy. Live video monitoring is an emerging game-changer for home and business owners looking to take their security to an even greater level of proactive protection.

Benefits of Live Video Monitoring

Live video monitoring acts as an early warning system, providing an effective way to intercept intruders before they have a chance to reach your home or business. Some of the benefits of live video monitoring include:

24/7 Live Surveillance

Get all the benefits of normal security cameras, with an extra layer of action when the situation requires it. Plus, you can still store a bank of video data and view live feeds from a smart device to check in on your property anytime.

Proactive Protection

Security experts review live footage and verify a potential threat. If police are needed, visual verification of a crime means faster, more informed response times. Additionally, cameras can see what first responders can’t, equipping them with advanced intelligence, full visibility of your property, and descriptions of any persons involved.

Smarter Security

State-of-the-art security cameras utilize advanced analytic technology to flag unusual activity or threats. From there, live video monitoring agents are alerted of a possible event in progress and can take action.

Always in the Know

Real-time alerts of unusual activity are also sent directly to you, meaning you know when an emergency situation is at hand and first responders are on their way whether you’re home or not.

Reduced Response Times

Visual verification of a crime in progress by a professional monitoring team typically gives you top priority with first responders and reduces response times and false alarms significantly.

Early Intervention

Advanced two-way speakers allow for early intervention by security specialists to alert potential intruders they have been seen and officers are on the way, adding another layer to deter crime before police and first responders arrive.

Safer Homes = Safer Neighborhoods

Fortifying your own home protection with advanced security technology inevitably affects the rest of your surroundings. Making your home safer with added deterrents and threat protection positively changes the safety of your community.

 

The security company you choose may vary in the specific video monitoring services they provide. Still, the core idea of video monitoring and proactive protection remains standard across the industry.

Shield Services from Post Alarm

Shield Services is Post Alarm’s suite of proprietary live video monitoring solutions. And like every superhero, Night Shield® has a unique origin story. As Post Alarm Co-Owner and CFO Rob Post relayed to the Montecito Journal, Night Shield® was born from a needed bridge in security surveillance coverage.

 

“Six years ago, I had an incident at my house. In the neighborhood, these guys tried to break into cars and mailboxes up and down the street. It was a problem,” he said. “And where I’m from (foothills of Monrovia, near Pasadena), there are a lot of bears and wild animals. So I’d wake up in the morning, turn on my phone, and see that the system detected a bear.”

 

But the old video system wasn’t designed to flag a non-imminent, prospective threat, focusing instead on the motion of wild animals. The need for something like Night Shield®, with live video monitoring agents and advanced analytic data to distinguish between threats and non-threats, was apparent.

 

“Now, when you arm your system at night, our central station will see a person detected around your property.”

How Our Shield Services Work:

• Post professionals install advanced video cameras in strategic locations on your property.
• If a camera detects a threat, it then alerts Post’s locally-based live video monitoring agents.
• Agents verify the threat and dispatch local law enforcement and/or Post Patrol services.
• Post Alarm monitoring agents relay critical details to responders ahead of their arrival.
• Law enforcement or Patrol responds in minutes to apprehend suspects and prevent a crime from occurring.

Post Alarm makes home security simple and synchronized. Our 24/7 local alarm monitoring, remote access from your phone for real-time notifications and control of smart security devices, advanced video surveillance technology, and Patrol response work together for total protection.

A Shield Service for Every Situation

Post Alarm offers a variety of live video monitoring solutions, depending on your specific needs and situation:

 

• Night Shield® – Overnight event-based live video monitoring identifies threats and alerts responders at the first sign of suspicious activity.
• Vacation Shield – With highly trained experts, event-based live video monitoring by highly trained experts can identify and deter threats from your property while you’re away.
• Construction Shield – Safeguard construction sites and trust your valuable assets stay protected, even when you’re not there.
• Post Shield 24 – Create a schedule customized to your unique needs, with confidence in your property’s protection.

Combined with local alarm monitoring and Patrol Services from Post, our dispatch team and Patrol officers receive critical information ahead of their arrival, including video verification of a crime in progress and location on your property, typically resulting in a higher priority response from law enforcement first responders.

Shields Up. Since 1956.

Unlike traditional motion-triggered technology, live video monitoring provides a proactive approach to home and business protection. The ability for your security company to take the same action as they would in the event of a triggered alarm before an actual crime takes place not only mitigates damage and loss, but potentially saves lives.

 

At Post Alarm, we’ve always been a local, family-owned company, and we plan on staying that way. As a privately held, third-generation family business, Post has provided alarm and patrol services to Southern California communities, neighborhoods, and homeowners since 1956.

 

Our family founded Post Alarm with a passion for protecting people and the neighborhoods we call home. Now, we’re one of the only local, full-service security organizations in the Southern California area providing professionally installed, fully integrated, customized security solutions that result in earlier threat detection and synchronized response, getting you help faster when it matters most.

 

Ready to start building your custom video monitoring and security package? Reach out and get a free security quote today!