Who’s At The Door? – Ideas for Front Door Security
When it comes to protecting your home, there are few things more important than front Door security. People have a longstanding history with monitoring the activity with their front doors. We always want to know who is knocking or ringing before opening the door. For that reason, we’ve used peepholes and doorbells for centuries.
Peepholes, whether rudimentary holes in doors, secret slats to be opened and closed, or the current fisheye iterations, have granted us visual access to our entrances throughout history. The doorbell alerts us to the presence of a visitor. With advances in visual surveillance solutions, we can take front Door Security to the next level.
The result: Video doorbell cameras, peephole security cameras, and other IP cameras to monitor front door activity.
As we thought about our solutions for front door monitoring, we also considered the question: who’s at the door? When we think about the types of encounters that we experience at the front door, funny, friendly, frightening or otherwise, it helps us better calibrate our camera recommendations.
With the intersection of visitor types and camera features at the forefront of our thought process, we’ve made a list of ideas for front door security. So, join us below as we figure out who’s at the door.
Front Door Security – Visitors You Want to Avoid
This first category covers the inevitable unwelcome visitors that you experience every day. Depending on the type of neighborhood or apartment complex you live in, some of these may resonate with you. We’ll give you some ideas for security solutions for each.
Door-to-Door Salespeople
Picture this: You’re off early from work. It’s been a long week. Reports here, emails there, and meeting after meeting. Your time off should be your chance to head home, relax and enjoy yourself. Heck, maybe you stop off at the market and get yourself a treat. Some chocolate, ice cream, wine, even a casual rack of lamb? It’s your life, Deb, we aren’t judging.
From here, what is the worst thing that could happen right as you plop onto the couch, fire up Netflix, and get ready to indulge? That’s right, the doorbell rings.
You aren’t expecting anyone. You know it is some person that is just looking to interrupt your relaxing time and disturb your personal solitude.
Alas, you make the trek from your couch to your door and use the peephole, only to find a door-to-door salesperson. Sigh. You don’t need solar panels; your windows don’t need washing; your trees don’t need trimming, and you donate to your own charities, on your own time.
Bottom line: You don’t need salespeople invading your personal time and space.
You can see where we’re headed with this; if you had a front door security solution, you wouldn’t have to get off your couch. You could view your live footage right from your phone.
Our recommendation:
The ONE Halo Doorbell Camera
This HD 3MP is spectacular for catching salespeople as they approach your home. HD 3MP is a big step up from the average 1080P doorbells out there. So not only will you be able to see the person, but you will see them in more detail than ever before. This will help you identify them as salespeople.
Another hugely important feature here is the cameras’ PIR thermal detection sensor. This helps the camera detect the thermal motion of humans and start recording before they even ring the doorbell.
The ONE Halo seamlessly replaces your current doorbell and is easy to set up. Not only will this help you identify pesky door-to-door salespeople, but it can also alert you to annoying neighbors. These two types of visitors go hand-in-hand in the same category.
Screening Suitors at the Front Door
This may be a little more of a niche application, but definitely still worth mentioning. If you are a parent, there is no doubt that your child will get to the age (likely sometime around high school) when they will be ready to date. You, most likely, will not be ready for this.
As a recent viral video has shown, a video doorbell can be used as a means of screening a suitor that comes to take your son or daughter on a date. In the video, a father, who is away at work, hilariously grills a young man who comes to pick his daughter up for a date. The father asks the young man questions via two-way audio on his mobile app, as well as sets parameters for the date (be home by 10:30).
The ONE Halo Doorbell Camera, would have done everything better than the competitor’s unit in that video. Not only would you have easy two-way audio, but there would have been more clarity to really get a good look at the guy. That is your precious daughter he is taking out. Every detail of his appearance, demeanor and mannerisms counts. With HD 3MP resolution, it all would have been clearer. Plus, details like his license plate on his car would be clear if you needed to screenshot it.
Front Door Security – Be Wary of Animals
Okay we know this article is about front door security, and coyotes, mountain lions and bears aren’t always going to end up on your front porch. That being said, front door security solutions can help in catching moments that may be too dangerous for you to exit your home.
Check out this situation where a bear wandered into our client’s yard!
The ONE Nova Floodlight Camera
This one works above your front door or above your garage door. Or, if you need backyard coverage, you can place this in your yard. In any case, the ONE Nova floodlight camera is great for catching and warding off both animals and human intruders.
Like the ONE Halo, the Nova uses PIR thermal detection. That combined with two thermal motion-triggered LED bulbs is enough to deter any intruder, furry or otherwise!
Along with that, the Nova is equipped with a 100db alarm that you can arm for certain times of the day. That can help with deterrence as well.
Most importantly, the camera component records in clear HD 1080P for exceptional viewing day and night. Check out the full specs below:
The ONE Link Wireless Battery Camera System
If you need more versatile coverage when it comes to installation points, you need to try the ONE Link. This offers you fully wireless battery cameras that you can place at any point on your property. They synch with a wireless station (that plugs into your router) at the touch of a single button.
They are weatherproof for outdoor use and can be placed on any surface. Their magnetic backing makes them easy to stick onto any metal surface. Or, you can use their dome-shaped mounting plates to screw into trees, wooden fences, sheds, etc. From there, you can angle the cameras in any direction that suits you.
This positioning gives you the flexibility to record anywhere on your property, to ensure your safety from animals or otherwise!
Care to learn more about ONE Link WiFi Cameras? Read on below!
Wireless Home Security Cameras
Front Door Security – Protect Your Deliveries
One of the most important functions of front door security solutions is protecting deliveries. The average American household receives nearly 30 packages per year. That is more than 2 opportunities per month for porch pirates to steal your goods.
We are’t having it! Our recommendation:
The ONE Peek Peephole Camera
This innovative front door security solutions replaces your current peephole lens. It slots right into your door’s peephole and runs fully wireless for easy set up.
It features a full HD camera component on the exterior of the door and a 4.3″ touchscreen monitor on the interior of the door for easy live viewing as well as playback.
You can also view the footage on your mobile device via the LaView ONE app. With that, you can use two-way audio to communicate with anyone that approaches your door. This is particularly good for speaking with delivery people.
By communicating with delivery people, you can guarantee that your deliveries are left successfully in a safe place. You can instruct the delivery person to place the package in a certain place or even to use a side access gate to place the package somewhere else.
This solutions is good for both communicating with delivery people as well as warding off porch pirates. Just knowing that there is a camera watching makes people be on their best behavior when approaching your front door.
Porch Security Cameras
We’ll leave things on a good note with this footage of a delivery person captured with the ONE Peek Peephole Camera:
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