With the start of fall right around the corner and “you know what” sneaking up right behind it, we’ll all be headed back indoors soon for the bulk of our waking hours.

And while your home is your haven in many ways, it can’t do a very good job of protecting your family all by itself. It needs some help from its friends and, in this case, you’re the best friend it has. The one in charge of beefing up security so all concerned can stay, secure, and comfortable.

One way to provide all that for your family is with carbon monoxide detectors placed at strategic points around your home. In this regard, you have two basic options: battery powered, the kind you install or yourself. Or, Option B: hard-wired CO detectors with battery-back-ups, and all connected to a central monitoring station as provided by your choice of a home security company.

So, what’s the better choice? Option B, and by a landslide, and here’s all the proof you need:

• Battery powered CO detectors need to be faithfully maintained by testing, re-testing, and replacing batteries. Hardwired detectors are being monitored for you, and require no such ongoing maintenance.

• Battery powered detectors, for the most part, are set to trigger when CO can already have caused drowsiness, thus raising the possibility that whoever’s sleeping may not even hear the alarms. By contrast, hardwired CO detectors are for more sensitive and pick up the presence of CO at very low levels of emission. That gives you plenty of time to act, and plenty of time for your monitoring center to notify the authorities.

• Battery powered CO detectors trigger one at a time, further increasing the possibility that an alarm won’t be heard in time to prevent bodily harm. On the other hand, when one hardwired CO detector alarm goes off, they signal the others so they’re all sounding the alarm at the same time. And even Rip Van Winkle himself couldn’t sleep through that.

When you come right down to, battery powered CO detectors just will not give you the kind of protection we know you want. To learn more about the protective power of hardwired CO detectors backed by our professional and 24/7/365 monitoring service, contact Now Security Systems today.