Step 2: How Many Doors and Windows do you have?
Door and window sensors are the heart and soul of any alarm system.
Door and window sensors are more secure than motion sensors, as motion sensors aren't active when you're home.
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Not an eyesore: Half the size of most other door sensors!
Actions
Allows you 60 seconds to enter your code into the pin pad before alert
Siren, App Alerts, and Pro Monitoring when Armed (including Away, Stay, and Night modes)
Open/Close status visible on Shield app
Example Z-Wave Automation: turning on your foyer lights when you enter the door.
Battery
Averages 6 years
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Don't give a thief a 60 second head start to enter your home.
Unlike our competitors, we don't think door and window sensors are the same thing. We have specific window sensors, that alert the second the window is cracked.
Actions
Alerts Immediately - No 60 second delay.
Siren, App Alerts, and Pro Monitoring when Armed (including Away, Stay, and Night modes)
Open/Close status visible on Shield app
Example Z-Wave Automation: turning your AC off when you open the window.
Battery
Averages 6 years
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Actions
Siren, App Alerts, and Pro Monitoring when Armed (including Away, Stay, and Night modes)
Example Z-Wave Automation: turn on all the lights to scare away intruders.
Battery
Averages 4-6 years
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Detects
The opening of any lifting or tilting doors or object (garage doors, display cases, tilting windows)
Alerts
Siren, App Alerts, and Pro Monitoring when Armed (including Away, Stay, and Night modes)
Example Z-Wave Automation: automatically closing the garage door 45 seconds later.
Battery
Averages 10-15 years
Step 3: Add Motion Sensors.
Get an immediate alert when there's motion in your home or business and you're not there.
Reminder: Door and window sensors are more secure than motion sensors, as motion sensors aren't active when you're in the night or armed (stay) modes.
Most people have a motion sensor in the living room, near the door. You may also want to put motion sensors in other common areas, such as your garage, basement, family room, loft, office, or customer waiting area.
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Actions
Siren, App Alerts, and Pro Monitoring when Armed and in Away Mode.
Because your own movement in the house triggers them, motion sensors do not alert you in Stay and Night modes.
It is more secure and you will have fewer false positives if you use door and window sensors.
Battery
Averages 6-8 years
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Actions
Primarily used for triggering home automation events.
Convient App Alerts - without triggering Pro Monitoring!
Example Z-Wave Automation: turning on the kitchen lights when motion is detected on your porch.
Battery
Averages 2-5 years, depending on activity
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UL, IC, and FCC Listed for Commercial Insurance
Actions
Siren, App Alerts, and Pro Monitoring when Armed and in Away Mode.
It is more secure and you will have fewer false positives if you use door and window sensors.
Battery
Averages 3 years
Step 4: How Do You Want to Disarm the System?
Every system comes with a pin pad and has the ability to arm or disarm your SCW Shield from your smartphone. You can also add keyfobs or extra pin pads.
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Each SCW Shield Hub comes with a pin pad.
SCW Shield can support up to 8 total pin pads, so you can put one near each door.
Home Automation
Example Z-Wave Automation: arming the system (by pin pad, app, or key fob) could turn your foyer lights off, turn our oven off, and set your thermostat to power saving mode.
Example Z-Wave Automation: disarming the system (by pin pad, app, or key fob) could turn your foyer lights on, set your thermostat to a comfortable temperature, and turn on a wall plug for your favorite music player.
Battery
Averages 4-6 years
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Shield can support up to 50 key fobs.
Home Automation
Example Z-Wave Automation: arming the system (by pin pad, app, or key fob) could turn your foyer lights off, turn our oven off, and set your thermostat to power saving mode.
Example Z-Wave Automation: disarming the system (by pin pad, app, or key fob) could turn your foyer lights on, set your thermostat to a comfortable temperature, and turn on a wall plug for your favorite music player.
Additional custom programmable Z-Wave Automation button that could, for example, unlock a smart lock and turn on a porch light.
Battery
Averages 4-6 years
Step 5: Do you need protection for your whole house?
Theft isn't the only threat to your investment. 90% of homeowner insurance claims have to do with water or fire. Protect your property from damage and your loved ones from dangerous chemicals.
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Environmental Sensors require the ELITE monitoring package.
Alerts
Contacts the Central Monitoring Station Immediately and Sends Fire Rescue.
Does not send an alert or wait for your response, as Carbon Monoxide can make people non-responsive.
Battery
Averages 10 years
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Environmental Sensors require the ELITE monitoring package.
Alerts
Integrated Siren
Contacts the Central Monitoring Station Immediately and Sends Fire Rescue.
Does not send an alert or wait for your response, as smoke or fire can make people non-responsive.
Battery
Averages 10 years
Don't let burning toast spoil your day! Our 3-in-1 sensor allows you to turn off the smoke function and just use the Heat and Rate-of-Rise Temperature feature, so that cooking mishaps doesn't set off your siren and send the fire department!”
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Environmental Sensors require the ELITE monitoring package.
Detects
Water/Flood
Cold/Freeze
High Heat
Alerts
Primarily used for triggering home automation events.
Convenient App Alerts - without triggering Pro Monitoring!
Example Z-Wave Automation: turning off your water valve when detecting a leak.
Battery
Averages 10 years
Step 6: Do you need any specialty sensors?
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Safecare Button
Perfect for elder care
Single, red button for ease of use
Water resistant
Alerts
Contacts the Central Monitoring Station Immediately and Sends an Ambulance.
Battery
Averages 4-6 year
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While there's already a siren in the Shield Hub, many people choose to add one for each door for additional protection.
Siren
90 dBm siren
Shield can support up to 8 extra sirens
Plugs into a wall outlet
Battery
Averages a couple of hours
Warranty
American-Based Technical Support after the sale. For FREE. Forever.
Real review from Fransisco, who had this to say:
The most important part of a purchase like this is the support for technical assistance when there is a question or when there is a problem, and they always exceed expectations!
All of our equipment comes with Free Technical Support that is US based (Our Warehouse and Staff are located in Asheville, NC). We're happy to help you via chat, email, screenshare / remote support sessions, and phones. Our number is 866-414-2553 and we're open from 9-7 M-F (EST).
