Cricket Bats and Golf Clubs should be to hit balls, not burglars

Conventional alarm and home monitoring systems are often prohibitively expensive and difficult to buy, install and run - Intamac offers a better and safer way to protect home, business and loved ones

Northampton, August 8th 2007 - Almost a third of UK householders keep items like golf clubs, cricket bats and heavy torches handy for use in case intruders enter their home. And more than half of them said they were prepared to use these objects, says a recent poll of 4,000 people for the insurance company Cornhill Direct .*

According to the report, although burglary levels recorded by the most recent British Crime Survey have dropped by 3 per cent in England and Wales the fear of an intruder still remains high with only one in five feeling safe in their own homes at night. “Much of this is because of the cost of conventional alarm and home monitoring systems,” says Kevin Meagher, CEO, Intamac. “For many in the population they are prohibitively expensive and difficult to buy, install and run. We believe this is why householders appear to have to resort to the potential use of a blunt instrument in order to protect themselves and their property.”There is now an alternative: Winner of the UK Security Excellence awards, Intamac Home Manager is a revolutionary intelligent, yet inexpensive self-install, web-based alarm monitoring and messaging service that helps protect home and family against the consequences of unexpected events including: burglary; physical threat and doorstep aggression.Not only is Home Manager designed to provide protection from potential crime it also allows the home or business owner to remotely manage and monitor in real time the progress of other events that could occur on their premises every day and be alerted through Home Manager’s integral messaging system via phone, email or text. Events such as:

When children are home safely from school: Home Manager enables parents to get an alert at work when their child arrives home from school and turns the house alarm off using their personalised PIN code.When an authorised visitor - for instance a tradesperson, cleaner, nanny or au pair is in the home or business: Home Manager enables a temporary PIN to be activated in order to grant access for authorised individuals. The system allows the user to monitor at what time, on what date and for how long the event occured. The system alerts instantly should an unauthorised individual enter the property.Potential hazards and costly damage: Home Manager links water and smoke detectors allowing properety owners to respond quickly to flooding or fire when away from the location.
Support of independent living: With the Safe@Home feature, Home Manager can monitor normal movement of an elderly family member within the home, and notify you if daily routines do not occur by a specified time each day.

Such is the flexibility of Home Manager that users can even customise their Home Manager service to include inexpensive IP cameras (webcams) that enable them to remotely monitor their home or business, from any internet connected device, at any time. If additional support is required, Intamac offers a 24-hour automated manned response service through its partnership with Group 4 Securicor. Home Manager also provides for the future remote management and control of environmental and other infrastructure in the home or office; for instance, to monitor heating and electrical systems and the devices attached to them. “The use of a weapon to deal with an intruder could result in the property owner committing a criminal act,” emphasises Meagher. “Sports equipment such as cricket bats and golf clubs should only be used where it belongs - on the cricket pitch or the golf course.”

*For more analysis of this report go to *http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6901971.stm