Security Layout?

[N49atv]

Well, was planning to build in spring, but with baby 3 coming, I needed something bigger. So i bought a bungalow and I got a quote out on parts to put together an HAI system.
 
Anyway, trying to figure out what i need for security. I have a couple pictures, and what I think is going on. With the big windows, and doors surrounded by windows. I think ill have to go wireless on all my exterior windows/doors. But I can fish to the inside ones. Ill be using the zones as both automation/security.
 
Id like to secure the outside, and then use the internal for automation. Thats why every door is getting a contact.
 
Where do I need motions and glass breaks? I did a layout i thought kinda worked. Only issue I had was with the motion for the great room. No matter where i put it, it seems to see a window. Although rollers should be down, id rather have to go off, from someone/thing in my backyard, then at the front door.
 
Also I dont know the range of glass breaks. This is more for comfort of my wife when she is home, and I am not.
 
The garage is just shy of 1,000sq ft if that matters.
 
I plan to look at some wireless contacts, GE perhaps, or HAI. But as i have been told the Ion window contacts are huge, and I dont know they will work with my windows. As the windows crank open for the full height on one side, and there is a very large gap between outside face, and inside face, with the way the seals work.
 
What do you think?
 

 

 

[RAL]

The glass breaks have a maximum range of about 20 to 25 feet, depending on which model you are talking about.  They work best when facing the windows you want to protect, and not very well when mounted on the same wall as the window.  I don't think the glass break that you have located in the hallway outside the master bedroom will work particularly well. You'd be better off with a separate unit in each room.
 
For the motion detectors, if you don't have a mounting location that keeps the windows out of the field of view, consider using a dual tech model that uses both PIR and microwaves.

 

[N49atv]

I was putting in duals that are pet friendly. I don't have pets, doesnt mean I won't come home to a pet one day....women.....

I have no issue mounting one in the corner of each room. Just wasn't sure what's overkill and what's not.

What about sirens? One in the house enough? One out? I'd love to mount my Nathan Airchime K3LA outside, hooked up to n2, but one false alarm and I'd be thrown from the neighborhood.

 

[RAL]

There's lots of opinions in the forums here about sirens.  Some argue that external sirens don't do much good, and will just make the neighbors hate you.  I think it depends somewhat on where you live, how far away your neighbors are, and how often there are false alarms. Not just your false alarms, but the neighbors' too.  If sirens are going off all the time, people don't pay much attention after a while.  In my neighborhood, the houses are fairly far apart but we have a Neighborhood Watch set up.  There are rarely false alarms, so when someone's alarm does go off, we tend to check into it.
 
Inside the house, a lot of people like the idea of screamers like the GE Security MPI-47E or the MPI-47C.   They are small and very loud, the idea being that you want to make it so unpleasant for anyone who breaks in that they will leave immediately.   But think about whether you want them going off when you are in the house.  Some have their system trigger the screamers only in Away mode and use a something a little friendlier when the system is in Stay mode.