SmartPhone Home Security without Monthly Fees: A Buyer's Guide to SmartPhone-Enabled Fee-Free Home Security

You can install and operate a modern home security product without paying monthly fees for “Professional Monitoring”.

There is no need for technicians to come to your house to install the security sensors, cameras, and alarms. You can install these items yourself without special tools or special knowledge.

There is no need to pay monthly fees for "Professional Monitoring" that takes place at some remote monitoring station. The station has no local knowledge beyond the sensor, camera, and alarm data sent by your security product. You and your SmartPhone have the necessary technical capability to monitor the sensors, cameras, and alarms data PLUS you also have the local knowledge of actual activity in and around your house. When home, you are better able to determine if an event is a false alarm than some remotely located technician, and when away from home , you have as much or more data than the remote technician (multiple household members can monitor the system).

There is only one problem with this narrative- even though installing and operating one of these home security products is easy, choosing one product that best fits your needs and budget is hard (a large amount of technical and marketing information must be collected and evaluated).

This book offers a solution to the problem of choice. This book compiles and summarizes the relevant technical and marketing data. It also displays this data against specific decision criteria to facilitate your choice. Let this book be your guide to making this choice easier.

The purpose of this book is to provide the motivated SmartPhone Savvy Consumer with all the necessary detailed information to choose, purchase, self-install, and SmartPhone-monitor (and control) a modern high quality home security system (HomSecSys). Let this book guide you to this Holy Grail of home security products.