March 28th, 2011 
charmy Skylink SC-100 Security System Deluxe Kit
- Rolling Code Technology – provides maximum security and reduces false alarm
- System good for most small to medium size homes (up to 3000-feet). Additional accessories needed to secure larger homes.
- Works in conjunction with up to 30 skylink security accessories (including dial alert)
- Includes a piercing 110 dB siren
- Up to 100-foot range
Features
- DIY Wireless Security System – Easy to install and ready to use, no programming is required.
- Rolling Code Technology – Leading edge technology, provides maximum security and reduces false alarm.
- Ideal for homes, apartments, offices, businesses and condominiums.
- This system is good for most small to medium size house (i.e. approx. up to 3000 ft2). For larger house, more accessories should be added in order to cover all the premises.
- Works in conjunction with up to 30 Skylink security accessories (including Dial Alert).
- When the siren goes off, it will immediately send a signal to Dial Alert (sold separately) to call the preset phone numbers.
- Can be customized to suit individual specific needs.
- Arm/Disarm using PIN or Keychain Transmitter.
- Includes a piercing 110 dB siren.
- Lighted keypad with Chime, Instant, Delay mode.
- Low battery indication.
- AC power with 9V Alkaline battery backup (included).
- Up to 100ft range.
- No monitoring fees.
Designed for use in small- to medium-sized homes or offices of up to 3,000 square feet, the Skylink SC-100 Security System Deluxe Kit helps you protect your family from unwanted intruders or theft, while also giving you real peace of mind in case of emergencies. Offering an operating range of up to 100 feet, the SC-100 requires no monitoring or registration fees and is a snap to setup, arm, and disarm.
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Reliable, Advanced System Uses Trouble-Free Wireless Connections
Keep your home or business safe and secure with this reliable, cutting-edge wireless security system. The SC-100 utilizes innovative technology with trouble-free wireless connections to provide security, making it a great choice for protecting against intruders and safeguarding in case of an accident, fire, flood, or other emergency.
Works with up to 30 Skylink Accessories for Easy Customization and Expansion
Because the SC-100 works in conjunction with up to 30 Skylink security accessories, including Dial Alert, it can be customized to suit your needs. This flexibility means you can easily expand your system to accommodate larger spaces or businesses that require a higher level of protection.
Do-it-Yourself System Eliminates the Need for Monitoring Fees
The SC-100 is a do-it-yourself system, which means you can easily install it yourself and then use it without paying monitoring fees or registering with an alarm company. To arm or disarm the system, simply enter your personal code or use the keychain transmitter. With this user-friendly system, you gain real peace of mind and control over your personal safety and that of your family, employees, and others at your home or business–all without excessive costs or upkeep.
Rolling-Code Technology for Maximum Security and Fewer False Alarms
Skylink is the first company to incorporate rolling-code technology into a home/business security system, which means that the SC-100 provides maximum security while virtually eliminating the number of false alarms. A rolling code (or hopping code) is often used in entry systems that don’t require a key, because it prevents an eavesdropper from capturing and using your personal security code. Thanks to rolling-code technology, the SC-100′s control panel will recognize radio waves only from its remote sensors (door/window sensor, motion sensor, and keychain transmitter), thereby preventing high-tech thieves from duplicating signals and tampering with your system.
Motion, Door, and Window Sensors Provide Reliable Emergency Protection
The SC-100 comes complete with a motion sensor and two door/window sensors, enough coverage for small- to medium-sized homes. If any sensors are triggered when the system is armed, and the correct pin is not entered, the included 110dB siren will make a piercing sound to ward off intruders and draw attention to your home.
Works with Dial Alert for Immediate Emergency Help
The SC-100 can assist you in getting immediate help in case of an emergency. When its siren goes off, the SC-100 will immediately send a signal to Dial Alert (sold separately), which will call emergency phone numbers that you have preset. When someone answers the phone, your prerecorded message will play, and the contact person will be told that you need emergency help right away.
Easy to Program with Convenient Keypad
The SC-100 includes an easily programmable, lighted keypad with Chime, Instant, and Delay modes. Simply enter your preset pin code to arm or disarm the system; an LED will indicate when the alarm is properly set. All the accessories are preprogrammed to work with the control panel, so you won’t have to worry about time-consuming, individual setup of each component.
The SC-100 runs on AC power with one nine-volt battery (included) as backup. A convenient low-battery indicator lets you know when it’s time for a replacement. The system also comes with all necessary mounting hardware.
What’s in the Box
Alarm with control panel and keypad, motion sensor, two door/window contact sensors, 4B434 keychain transmitter, AC adapter, all DC batteries, mounting materials, and instruction manual.
This kit includes everything you need to guard a medium-sized home. Add up to 30 Skylink accessories for full, customized protection of larger spaces. |
List Price: $ 129.77
Price: $ 99.98
Effective Physical Security, Third Edition
Effective Physical Security, Third Edition is a best-practices compendium that details the essential elements to physical security protection. The book contains completely updated sections that have been carefully selected from the previous Butterworth-Heinemann publication, Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, 4E.
Designed for easy reference, the Third Edition contains important coverage of environmental design, security surveys, locks, lighting, CCTV as well as a new chapter covering the latest in physical security design and planning for Homeland Security. The new edition continues to serve as a valuable reference for experienced security practitioners as well as students in undergraduate and graduate security programs.
- Each chapter has been contributed to by top professionals in the security industry
- Over 80 figures illustrate key security concepts discussed
- Numerous appendices, checklists, and glossaries support the easy-to-reference organization
- Each chapter has been contributed to by top professionals in the security industry
- Over 80 figures illustrate key security concepts discussed
- Numerous appendices, checklists, and glossaries support the easy-to-reference organization
List Price: $ 49.95
Price:
4 Wireless Door&Window Alarm,Home Security,Stop Burglar?Alarm?
- Inconspicuous: Only 2.5″ long. Easily mounted by adhesive tape to window or door, no tools required.
- Loud 90 dB alarm scare off potential intruders – Magnetic sensor switch detects entry protecting you home or office whether you’re in or out. Chime or alarm mode.
- Residential use: Protects exterior door, sliding glass door, gun and medicine cabinets
- Commercial use: Protects showcases and cash registers
- Operated by three 1.5VLR44 button cell batteries
At only 2 1/2 inches long this economical alarm inconspicuously protects your home from intruders. This unit uses a magnetic sensor to detect the opening of a protected door or window. A 90 dB alarm will
then alert you to an attempted entry and scare off potential intruders. The owner may open the window or other protected object, without setting off the alarm by switching the on/off switch to the off position. May also be used within the home to alert parents to children opening a gun or medicine cabinet or used to protect exterior doors, particularly those hard to protect sliding glass doors. Commercial uses include showcases and cash registers.
Price: $ 4.25
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Great product for the price,
After my house was broken into I wanted to get an alarm but didn’t want to pay any companies or commit to any monitoring contracts. This fit the bill perfectly. It works great once you plan around some caveats.
Pros: very simple operation. I’ve only had it two weeks but seems reliable so far. Easy to set up. The remote works well, but it’s too bulky for me to carry around. So I just use a PIN code when I come and ago. I love the flexibility of this system. It’s easy to add sensors or accessories. Compared to a pro alarm, the stuff is very cheap but built decently. It doesn’t quite have the build quality “feel” of a pro system but it’s simple and for the money works well. I love how it’s all wireless. I”m a renter and don’t want to drill holes or pull wire in walls and this is perfect.
Cons: The control panel (SC-001), PIN pad and siren are all one unit. If a crook breaks in and smashes it to bits during the 30 seconds on a delayed entry alarm it will be worthless. Or even if the siren is going off, cover it tightly with your hand, rip it off the wall and take it to the bathroom sink and submerge it in water or otherwise disable it. In other words, there’s a single failure point that’s not well protected. Especially if you mount it by your door for easy ripping off the wall as the crooks come in. In professional systems, the control unit is usually in a metal box in a closet so if someone smashes the keypad it will still go off. In pro systems the siren is separate as well.
Now here’s how you can plan your system to mitigate the cons. Here’s what to buy: Buy an extra key pad and at least one extra siren unit. They’re only $30 each. Next, get creative where you hide the control panel. Put it in a closet or behind your washer and dryer or some place hard to get to. Some palace where it will take more than 30 seconds to destroy the control panel. Better yet, I am going to buy an inexpensive metal key box. It’s a locking metal box that you can hang keys in. I found one on a big auction site for $15. I plan to drill a hole to poke the antenna out and another hole to run the power cord in. And some holes in the door so if the siren does go off, it can be heard. This will make it a little more like a pro system, in a locked metal box, preferably in a closet. Once the control box is secure, then set up one or more external sirens. I bought two. I put them on opposite sides of the house. Now if a bad guy breaks in, he has to find three sirens and smash them (control panel siren + 2 external ones). The sirens are very loud but I live on a noisy road and it’s hard to hear the interior one from outside when traffic is going by. That’s why I discreetly mounted one siren on the outside of a window on the front of the house. The other one is mounted on the outside of a window on the side of the house. I even wrapped one in black trash bad plastic to make it less obvious it’s an alarm. You might even want to put electrical tape over the LED on the siren unit. Now you will have a system that’s very difficult to defeat. Most crooks aren’t going to want to hang around a house with 3 sirens going, not knowing it’s it’s monitored as well.
Some other thoughts: I didn’t get a dialer because I don’t have a land line and odds are burglars may cut the house phone lines anyway. But if you already have a landline, it couldn’t hurt. The magnet contact sensors work well on the doors. The PIR (motion detector) works very well. The only problem is I have a cat and it might trip it. So I put a couple of the PIRs in closets. When I was burglarized, the first place they hit were the closets. Keep the closet doors closed and the cat won’t set it off. I’m very careful to avoid false alarms because I don’t want the neighbors hear it cry wolf from a false alarm. If you don’t have pets, the PIRs will work great in the hallways or any rooms.
Wish list: separate key pad, controller box and siren units. I wish it would tell you if a sensor was “ready” like a pro system, but this would no doubt make the cost of the sensors much higher.
Plan around its shortcomings and this can be a 5 star system. I gave it 5 stars because it works well for what it is and is a great value for the money.
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|So Far, So Good,
At the time of writing this review I have only had the system up and running for about a month. So far, I have not yet had any problems, and don’t anticipate any to come up. I would rate this product with 5/5 stars, but a few minor things kept me at a 4/5, even though I am very satisfied with this product.
First, be aware that the system comes with only a few pieces, and you will most likely need to buy extra motion sensors and/or door sensors if you own a house. I personally – after inquiring of the company – bought two SC-100 systems so that I would have extra sensors and because I was informed that they are compatible and work together. This is mostly correct. The two systems can be programmed so that all of the sensors activate both alarms at the same time (and therefore you have two separate alarms sounding, making it all that much more difficult for any crooks to disable), but both can only be activated or deactivated SIMULTANEOUSLY if you are using the remote clicker within range of both control panels. If you manually activate/deactivate on the keypad itself, it will only affect the control panel you are typing into (and you will therefore have to run through the house to activate/deactivate the second control panel and get in/out during the allotted 45 seconds). Also, any other function than the two pre-programmed “arm” settings of the clicker (1 – arm with no one home, 2 – arm with leaving someone inside, 3 – disarm, RED – sound alarm) will have to be entered manually. For example: coding in for ‘Night Mode’ before you go to bed will require you to manually arm both control panels. (However, if you have the extra keypad-only accessory (KP-434), you could program it to work for both control panels, and skip this step, but will have to pay for the keypad which does not light up).
I did end up buying two extra motion sensors (PS-434a) for a total of 4, as well as an extra alarm (AA-433) for a total of 3 blaring sirens, which I put out in my detached garage to sound off in case someone were to break into that building.
An individual components critique:
The only disadvantages are, first – as many others have already said in other reviews – the buttons are hard to see. I took someone else’s advice and colored around button 3 (disarm) so I could see it better. Second, the clicker-on-keychain is handy, but rather bulky. With a car clicker already attached to my keyring, this adds another, almost twice as large…’chunk’ (for lack of a better word) into my pocket. But I would rather deal with the ‘chunk’ than…
1. Control Panel – Easy to understand and set up. Look through ‘Advanced programming’ in the instructions to get a good idea of how it all works, and figure out what sensors you want in which zones. The first CP I received nearly deafened me when I set it off. The second one was only about 75% as loud, and I have not been able to locate any change in its volume.
2. Motion Sensor (PS-434a) – Settings can be adjusted to high or low, and an extra sensitivity adjustment comes with aiming the sensor down a little bit more. They pick up most movement in smaller rooms, but are sometimes limited by where you locate them. By this I mean, if you try to position them into a ceiling corner to keep them from being too noticeable, they WILL be limited in the direction that you aim them and the STILL WILL be somewhat noticeable. Despite this, they have served the purpose. I have yet to replace any batteries, and it has been one month.
3. Door/Window Sensor (WT-433) – The directions say to have both magnets no more than 5/8 inches away from each other. The kit comes with 3 extra spacers and long enough screws that you should not have any problems. However, if you use all the spacers, the magnets become more noticeable than they already are. These sensors work wonderfully and I have had not trouble with the magnets. But I did not like that the sensor ‘house’ that attaches to the door frame magnet is on a relatively short wire, so that you can only position it about 6 inches away from the door frame magnet. This made it a little tricky on one or two of my windows/doors because there were not very good places to screw a little box. Also the ‘house’ is clearly visible by your door unless you can creatively hide it somewhere.
4. Audio Alarm (AA-433) – I received this piece last. It’s an alarm. It’s very loud. It’s very basic: sounds off only when the system goes into full alert. It does not give warning beeps during the 45-second entry delay (like the Control Panel does), but will rather just blare at you once activated. A nice feature is that you can program it to work with either the Control Panel (and system) or just individual sensors (ie, just the back garage door or basement door) or both at the same time.
5. Clicker (4B-434) – No problems yet. Seems to work within the described 100 feet, although I have not measure this out
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|Great except for Dialer & battery Life,
Purchased this product in October 2008.
1st let me say that my setup for this product is as follows:
Two complete system control panels in operation. (unexpected repeat purchase)
Three motion sensors in operation. (all three pre-programmed to both control panels)
Only one of the two dialers is in operation, & that one I programmed to only one of the two control panels.
I have not chosen to install the door/window sensors… as the motion sensors cover the area used to approach the doors, & I have lots of windows.
The Good:
If you have a consistent electricity supply & no long (>10 minute) blackouts, the batteries will keep you going but you’ll need to change them.
The Bad:
If your electricity supply isn’t so steady, you may need to plug the control panel & dialer AC power supplies into a UPS. (e.g. APC)
Sometimes I have to re-program the dialer to the control panel.
Maybe it’s just my purchase but the Dialer in both purchases stopped being able to playback the messages soon after installation, although it would still dial the numbers I programmed in.
When plugged into the AC Adapter, the case of the Automated Dialer accompanying the system, generates a lot of heat and has stopped playing back the voice message… (i.e. I hear pops & clicks)……although it DOES still dial the pre-programmed numbers.
I would hear silence for the length of the message after it connects to my cell phone.
NOTE:
I use a UPS with my system.
In spite of these shortcomings, I like the product and it has brought me peace of mind.
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|Good introduction and reference to the subject,
I’m not an expert in physical security–I like to think of myself in an expert in information security. An understanding of physical security topics is essential for an Infosec consultant, but consultants and CISSP test candidates looking for information on this subject don’t really know where to turn.
This book was suggested to me by another CISSP and I found it useful. The book, which is really a set of essays by multiple authors, including Fennelly, is split into three sections: Design, Equipment, and Operations. It includes lengthy discussions of building construction, lighting and fencing, and far more about locks than I ever wanted to know. Many checklists on several different subject areas are included, although not all of the checklist items are necessarily explained somewhere in the book. Several very detailed glossaries are included, although they are unfortunately not listed in the table of contents or index.
The chapter “Electronic Access Control and System Integration” is good, but is lifted right out of another book I recommend, “The Book on Access Control,” by Konicek and Little. The chapter “Physical Access Control for Computer Areas,” taken from John M. Carroll’s computer security text is excellent. I highly recommend the chapter “Approaches to Physical Security” by Gigliotti and Jason. Infosec professionals will feel at home with the discussion of threat analysis, planning, cost justification, and layering. Besides being a useful essay on physical security, there is a lot of value to the Infosec professional in learning how related disciplines approach similar problems.
Chapter 2, the author’s 11-page essay on conducting security surveys, is not only a useful guide to that subject, but it also contains wise advice that should be helpful for a professional in any discipline: “Only when you have developed the ability to visualize the potential for criminal activity will you become an effective crime scene surveyor.” Overall, the book seems pretty solid, so I’m putting it on my must-buy list for security practitioners.
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|Excellent introduction for security new comers.,
The chapter on Crime Prevention by Environmental Design was worth the price of the book. Technical coverage of various physical design features (CCTV, alarms, lighting, etc) were sufficient. The book is an excellent reference for security new comers. I personally would like to see more specific treatment on various security scenarios such as warehouse, commercial buildings, etc. In general, I consider this a good buy.
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|Effective Physical Security,
This is a great book! For those in Facilities security, physical security or responsible for the security of a community, this is a must read. Insightful! Helps you ask the right questions and points you to positive solutions.
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|Very Simple Alarm – Recommended,
These alarms are very basic and really only act as “stand alone” noise makers when the two parts of the unit are separated when a door or window is opened. We installed these on the doors and windows on the dark side of a house that we inherited after a neighbor saw someone attempting to break in (it is apparently well known that the house was unoccupied since my father passed away) and we only needed something that would be loud enough to get some attention from the folks in the area. Here are my observations:
+ Easy to Install; these need to be installed fairly flush, one part on the frame of the doorwindow and one on the movable side (we used layers of double stick tape to shim up the two parts, very easy)
+ Easy to Use; really very intuitive
+ Loud; these are loud enough for my needs of getting the neighbor’s attention
+ Inexpensive; these are more than reasonably priced
+ Includes Preinstalled Batteries
While a professionally installed networked alarm system would be far superior for most homeowners, this set more than met needs and exceeded my expectations for the price.
Recommended
CFH
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|Junk,
Bought these alarms as a cheap alternative for a many-doored sunroom. The minute batteries came in contact with each other, the alarms sounded continuously. We couldn’t shut them off without removing the batteries. So…. back they go.
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|They Work Well!,
All Good on the alarms, would have given 5 stars but went with 4 due to alarm not as loud as I had expected! But the price was right and I am buying several more soon!
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