Originally published January 25 2005
Skylink home security products keep house safe on a budget
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A home security company called Skylink offers some simple gadgetry to increase your home's security level, without breaking the bank. Skylink sells a base unit that communicates with small sensor units throughout your home to alert you to impending situations. There are units that detect a garage door being jimmied, motion sensors for front walks, flood detectors to go in utility or laundry rooms, and a wide variety of other units.
You'd almost think that with all of the two way home and business security companies advertising you hear these days that there'd be no room for smaller, more personal home protection systems.
I've been trying out some elegantly simple home security technologies and, while the ones I've been using won't call the cops if some lowlife tries to break into stately Bray manor, they do let me be the master of my domain as long as I'm around to monitor them.
The equipment is from a company called Skylink.
They have a bunch of little gadgets you can use to keep an eye on your personal or corporate realm, and the ones I've been trying interact with a little base unit that uses LEDs that flash--accompanied by a plaintive beeping noise--if something's amiss chez vous.
The garage door doohickey is decidedly low tech, other than its wireless transmitter, but it works well.
The thing attaches to the bottom of the garage door and, if someone opens it up on you, a little plastic plunger extends--thanks to the law of gravity--and that trips a switch that makes the gadget holler to the base unit for help.
Likewise, they have a little motion detector you can mount outside the house and if someone invades your space it signals the base unit to beep and flash.
Skylink has a whole series of such products--- including one that'll raise the alarm if water starts gushing into your basement.
It isn't the most high tech solution, but it's an elegantly simple packaging of existing technology.
And it shows that, just because something may not be the fanciest trinket on the market, it can still have valid applications in this high tech world.
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