My home? I live on 5 acres in the middle of nowhere.
My driveway has a 12ft tube gate with automatic lock and opener. When you drive up to my house in front of the gate, an underground sensore beeps in my house and scares the piss out of me and my many dogs. I know you are there.
There is a keypad for people with the code. For those visitng-- trying to convert me to mormonism or tweekers trying to sell me steaks - they have to press the intercom. That rings another box in my house. If I like you, I press open and a signal is sent to the gate. The dogs run out and follow you down the driveway.
Meanwhile, I have a networked DVR by APOSONIC that controls 8 Night vision bullet cameras set around my property and in my outbulding. It records and is viewable on my iphone or my laptops or through any browser. (I am a network engineer so don't try and tell me about security).
The Aposonic also has alarm inputs. Door sensor, window sensor, ground moisture sensor (for overflow rezervoir or sumthing) all hook into the DVR. If any alarm happens, I get EMAIL immediately about the alarm. For example, this morning the return tube on my ebb and flow popped out of my 55 gallon reservoir.... all my buckets emptied to the floor... and Email woke me up and I fixed it.
A mossber persuader/cruiser pistol grip shotgun also helps me let off steam and blow peoples' legs off if I need to. A black lab is sweet to me, while the chow and pitbull take care of inside/outside security.
THere must be more..... but enough for now.
I love to be secure
did I mention the cameras see at night?
I see everything.
oh, and a red cedar hot tub sunken into my wood deck helps me relax.
tommy