7 questions you should ask yourself before buying an alarm

To protect your home, there are many solutions and it can sometimes be difficult to make the right choice. To help you, here are the seven questions you should ask yourself before buying your alarm.

1. What type of protection is possible?

Whether you live in a small or large home, we have the solution to meet your protection needs.

There are 3 ways to consider protecting your home:

• You can act before any intrusion, i.e. detecting an external presence even before it has caused damage.
• You want to monitor one or more of the perimeters of your home, such as your front door, your garage door, a bay window, etc.
• You only want to focus on the inside of your home.

Do an inventory of your rooms and potential areas of interest for burglars: that's where surveillance needs to be focused!

2. Is your house connected to the Internet?

Whether you have the Internet or not, there is a solution for you! If your home is connected to the Internet, it enables you to manage everything via your smartphone app, receive alerts in real time or even control your system remotely if you have forgotten for example to activate your alarm when you leave in the morning.

Fortunately, having an Internet connection is not required to stay protected! If you want to equip your holiday home which is not connected to the Internet for example, you will need an alarm which can work locally without Internet, such as the Somfy Home Alarm system.

Somfy has a solution for every situation!

3. Are you a property owner or a tenant?

If you are a tenant, you will surely want a wireless alarm system that's easy to uninstall if you move. There is no damage to the walls or holes to fill in when you remove the system. On the contrary, if you are an owner, you will want to invest in a system installed in a more permanent way.

4. Installation by yourself or by a professional?

Do you want to enjoy our best technology to protect your home as well as possible? Our Home Keeper Pro system is a professional connected alarm system which can be customised with the help of your installer for the configuration and installation. They will advise you and adapt to your needs and your home.

However, if you want to install your security system yourself it is possible with a plug and play product range.

5. Camera or alarm?

Camera and alarm are complementary solutions:

With cameras you keep an eye on your home and if you have a doubt you can simply check that everything is fine in your home. With alarms, you protect your home and family from intrusions and domestic incidents.

From surveillance to high-level protection, Somfy will have the solution best suited to your needs!

6. If there is an alert, do you want to check things yourself or involve a professional?

If you want to check things yourself, nothing is simpler. It's an option offered by most of our connected solutions via the smartphone app.

If you go on holiday, travel or go away for the weekend, Somfy offers professional security services on demand and without commitment. For example, adjust your level of protection with a simple click in the Somfy Protect app. You activate the professional security services without any commitment. From the emergency connection if there is a power cut to 24/7 remote monitoring, you choose based on your needs!

You can fully delegate the security of your home to a remote monitoring station available day and night. If there is an alarm, it takes care of everything: video verification with cameras, priority access to the police and sending a security agent to your home to secure and guard it for 24 hours.

7. Would you like to go further than protecting your home?

By choosing Somfy solutions, you get upgradeable products that are truly forward looking. They are open-source and offer the highest levels of compatibility with many other devices.

Does presence simulation ring a bell? Automatic shutters, lights that turn on based on the time slots programmed, etc. Or do you want your system to also warn you about domestic risks such as fire or water damage? This is possible with the Home Keeper alarm and also with our TaHoma home automation system.

Now that you've answered all these questions, it's time to make your choice here. The alarm system that suits you 100% is undoubtedly there!