Halo offers to protect your home

SECURITY VENDOR Intamac Systems is offering some technology that promises to protect your home while you are on holiday.

Halo, the system in question, might be more expensive than a dog, for example, but it will probably be cleaner and is also unlikely to get fleas, chew up any sofas or act inappropriately around anyone's leg.

Instead it is made up of a range of products that aim to combine to produce a home security kit - shotgun not included. Intamac said that it can provide holidaying paranoiacs with wireless cameras, movement detectors, smoke alarms, dummy and real sirens and a floor detector, which we can only assume detects footsteps rather floors.

The 'Halo' business comes into what you do with these products, and Intamax said that punters can choose what products they want, install their remote sensors and register them online. This means that whether you are in the pool, the hotel bar, the shed or anywhere else you can access your home security information, even cameras, via the web.

The firm spoke with 1,000 random people and filled them with fear about potential disasters. It found that three quarters of them were concerned about fires, floods and burglary and many, incredibly, had not filled their homes with webcams, remote sensors and dummy alarms.

Kevin Meagher, CEO of Intamac said, "Over half the respondents of our survey had no home security system in place, and relied on friends or neighbours to keep an eye on the place. What people really want is a system that's easy to set up, that can tell someone who can then quickly do something about it - whether it's a broken pipe, or break in."

The firm also reminded us about Home Office statistics that say any home with 'less than basic' security is six times more likely to be burgled than those with 'basic' security - causing us to get up and check that we had closed the back door and not replaced the double glazing with soggy newspaper.

Halo will text you an alert, or tweet, email, or phone you, should something happen in your home, meaning that you can fly into action and panic call your neighbours, who hopefully are at home, or the police, who hopefully won't be too busy to pop along and see what is going on.

The Halo 100 starter kit is available now. µ