Are Natural Damages a Threat to Your Home Surveillance System?
You are quite proud of having put together a nice and effective Home Surveillance System.
Your cameras are not easily subject to malicious damage and no cables that could be cut are in full view.
You can review the crisp images at any time and you always find fulfillment in the good operation of your project.
You have also established a routine check and maintenance program that helps you find out and take care of minor flaws that could become causes of malfunction or shut down the system if not corrected.
Everything is under control, right? Except that one night something may happen in the middle of a thunderstorm: a sudden surge of tension can destroy your beloved system with all its delicate components.
Unless you take care in advance.
What does this mean? That every system should be protected not only from hostile people but also from natural damages.
It should be hardened or sheltered to survive all sort of weather conditions.
It would be a pity to have it all destroyed in an instant for not having thought in time of the chance, however remote, of essential system elements being struck by a natural occurrence.
Depending on your location, different types of natural accidents may happen, once in a while.
High winds, tornadoes, thunderbolt, heavy snow, rain, floods, ice, you name it.
Weather forecasting services in your area can probably help you find out the risks that are more likely to occur at a certain time of the year, and also which preventive measures are most effective against the forces of nature.
If a certain natural disaster is expected in a short time you may decide to shut off temporarily your system and to remove the equipment from the most endangered locations.
Surge suppression power receptacles are available to protect delicate instruments from sudden voltage peaks.
They are usually a recommended protection.
Although fire is not often of natural origin, and although its damage may involve much more than a surveillance system, nevertheless one should always take provisions to protect any home from thunderbolt, the more so if the structure is made of combustible materials like wood.
This issue should be taken care of by professionals, expert in dealing with this kind of problems.
A yearly maintenance schedule must be established to check and maintain the system.
Did we mention all the occurrences of natural damages? Probably not, but this should be enough to set you out in search of the most suitable protective measures to be adopted in your specific case.
Do not forget to extend at renewal time the good insurance that you probably have, to cover also natural damages to your home surveillance system.
Your cameras are not easily subject to malicious damage and no cables that could be cut are in full view.
You can review the crisp images at any time and you always find fulfillment in the good operation of your project.
You have also established a routine check and maintenance program that helps you find out and take care of minor flaws that could become causes of malfunction or shut down the system if not corrected.
Everything is under control, right? Except that one night something may happen in the middle of a thunderstorm: a sudden surge of tension can destroy your beloved system with all its delicate components.
Unless you take care in advance.
What does this mean? That every system should be protected not only from hostile people but also from natural damages.
It should be hardened or sheltered to survive all sort of weather conditions.
It would be a pity to have it all destroyed in an instant for not having thought in time of the chance, however remote, of essential system elements being struck by a natural occurrence.
Depending on your location, different types of natural accidents may happen, once in a while.
High winds, tornadoes, thunderbolt, heavy snow, rain, floods, ice, you name it.
Weather forecasting services in your area can probably help you find out the risks that are more likely to occur at a certain time of the year, and also which preventive measures are most effective against the forces of nature.
If a certain natural disaster is expected in a short time you may decide to shut off temporarily your system and to remove the equipment from the most endangered locations.
Surge suppression power receptacles are available to protect delicate instruments from sudden voltage peaks.
They are usually a recommended protection.
Although fire is not often of natural origin, and although its damage may involve much more than a surveillance system, nevertheless one should always take provisions to protect any home from thunderbolt, the more so if the structure is made of combustible materials like wood.
This issue should be taken care of by professionals, expert in dealing with this kind of problems.
A yearly maintenance schedule must be established to check and maintain the system.
Did we mention all the occurrences of natural damages? Probably not, but this should be enough to set you out in search of the most suitable protective measures to be adopted in your specific case.
Do not forget to extend at renewal time the good insurance that you probably have, to cover also natural damages to your home surveillance system.
