When the alarm goes off, you get up nauseous, groggy and with a mean headache – “Oh no,” you think. “Another round of the flu? That’s winter in Edmonton for you.” With no fever, you drag yourself to work to finish off a few things, suspecting you’ll probably be out…
With the Apple Watch shipping this week, we get to imagine what it might mean for home automation and security! People have been envisioning the homes of the future since ‘the future’ arrived back in the 1950s. Starting with the Monsanto model home of the future at Disneyland, and encompassing…
Technological advances are awesome, but not everything new and shiny is necessarily better for home and esp commercial security. Example: wireless security. You want to get a security system, but wired or wireless, security systems have exploded onto the market in recent years. There’s a dizzying variety of products, installation…
Going south during the cold season (and lets face it, in Edmonton, Alberta where Select Security is based, that’s 6 months of the year), we see friends, family, and neighbours give a lot of thought to where they’re going for vacation, arranging for childcare, pet care, travel insurance, and researching…
We get it. It’s not always possible to have your home pre-wired to accommodate your home security system – after all we’re homeowners too. In fact, if you’re reading our blog from Edmonton, it’s possible that we’re neighbours. So we understand that if you buy or rent an existing…
A quick scan of the surveillance camera market shows that the market for surveillance technology is diversifying rapidly. The next thing consumers notice is that there is a considerable price point between comparable cameras that are labelled for indoor and outdoor surveillance. Surely however, there isn’t too much of a…
