Readers' Choice 2022: The Home Security Brands You Like Best
Modern home security products have made it easier than ever for you to protect yourself, your loved ones, and your property. By leveraging your home’s wireless network, they allow you to set up devices without running cables all over your house. Using your broadband connection, they let you easily connect to, view, and manage your system from anywhere. You can use your smart home assistant—be it Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri—to receive alerts and control your devices. In many cases, the events that your system tracks, along with those that your neighbors’ systems track, can identify issues in your community. Your internet-connected security system can even communicate with a professional monitoring center that can summon help for you, like any old-school security system.
In our latest PCMag Readers’ Choice Award survey, we asked you to rate the various home security products that you own: security systems that use various sensors throughout your home, security cameras for inside and outside your home, video doorbells that alert you to people approaching and package delivery, and smart locks to control who warrants entry. Any one of these products can immediately help you better understand what’s going on in and around your home. Use them all and you’ll feel super-safe.
DIY home security systems exemplify the changing times. 75% of respondents whose security system was four years old or more said that their system was professionally installed, compared with fewer than one-third (31%) for newer systems. Over 90% of the respondents who have a Ring or SimpliSafe security system—the two most popular among our respondents—installed their systems without a pro.
The two top-performing companies are almost unprecedently evenly
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