Category: Tips and Hints

Best Driveway Alarm

Driveway alarm and alert systems help secure your home, cottage, farm or business by alerting staff or the property owner when a person or vehicle has entered the property.  Don’t get caught off guard by a stranger, customer or visitor suddenly appearing at the door or on on your property.  Instead you can have an

Best Way to Add Email or text Notifications to Machines, Automation, Alarm Systems

What’s the best way to add email or text notifications to a machine, automation or alarm system? For notifications based on a single dry contact input, where there is no Internet or telephone, we recommend xProxy.  It’s a battery powered device with dry contact input, enclosed in a weatherproof casing.  It uses a cellular connection

Gift Ideas for the 2016 Holidays

Looking for gift ideas this season? We’ve got you covered! For the elderly, busy, easily distracted or just about anyone who cooks! Most residential fires start in the kitchen and are caused by unattended cooking. This is when someone simply gets distracted and forgets a pot on stove, a roast in the oven or any

Wireless driveway alarm that doesn’t require batteries, or solar power. Does it exist?

It does now! A common request is for a driveway alarm system which can send the signal wirelessly from the sensor back to the receiver inside, but is not battery powered at the sensor location. With powered gates, light posts lining driveways and other systems requiring power at entrances becoming more common it is also