Security Systems: Your home is your most valuable investment. You want the best security. Berkshire Alarm provides the most trusted brands in the industry. We offer you a free estimate and written quotation without obligation for installation, service and monitoring.
Popular Residential Products:

BOSCH
Your home is your most valuable investment.  You want the best security.  The Bosch 6000 Series security control panels provide control and communication functions with the best features and best value. 
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NAPCO
Put all members of your household in fingertip control of NAPCO's most sophisticated, computerized security systems. Depending on your needs and budget, Berkshire Alarm will offer you the best combination of security -- from comprehensive burglary and fire detection to futuristic "smart" home automation.
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 Popular Commercial Products:

NAPCO Gemini
This is a line of ultra-reliable hybrid hardwire/wireless control panels and crystal-controlled wireless peripherals, often thought the premier brand in this arena. From 8 to 255 zones, the growing family of Gemini Panels and user-friendly, feature-packed Designer Keypads protect homes and business with unparalleled effectiveness and consumer appeal. This year, in fact, NAPCO Gemini Wireless Systems, including hybrid controls, keyfobs, transmitters and receivers, have been proven by an independent test lab to out-perform all leading competitive brands, even under "torture-test" environmental conditions. 
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BOSCH - Commercial
In business you take calculated risks, but you can't risk your security.  You need the best.  The Bosch 6000 Series security control panels provide control and communication features you need now with room to grow for tomorrow.
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BOSCH - Industrial
For large security applications, the G Series security controls are simply the best.  They provide an integrated solution for Security, Fire Alarm Systems and Access Control applications.
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Monitoring Services: Our monitoring systems can help protect you from burglary, fire, carbon monoxide and more for your peace of mind. Let us help you select the security package that best fits your needs.
Residential Commercial / Industrial
Always Connected

Berkshire Alarm's superior monitoring capabilities clearly sets us apart from any other security system or company. A single Berkshire Alarm system connects to a Monitoring Center that helps protect your home and family from burglary, fire, carbon monoxide, medical emergencies and more, 24 hours a day.		 Your security is our business.

In the U.S. alone, a commercial robbery is committed every four minutes — that's over 1 million robberies a year. Berkshire Alarm manages all phases of your security — protection against intrusion, theft, and other critical conditions — all day, every day.

Experience

The first step in meeting your needs is identifying them. The ways Berkshire Alarm 's products and services can impact every area of your business may surprise you — our business solutions extend far beyond traditional loss prevention.

What is Home Automation?

An automated home coordinates security, temperatures, lighting, and audio/video automatically for safety, energy savings, and convenience. Automatically dimming lights and changing heating and cooling setpoints when you’re away from home can greatly reduce energy costs. Remote access lets you view security video on a laptop or Smartphone. Adding home automation can also increase the value of your home.  Learn More

Saves Energy. Besides convenience, Home Automation is a major energy saving device and friendly to the environment. It will control heating, cooling and lighting of the house according to where people are and what they are doing at any time of the day.

Lowers Costs. Home Automation can save you money in other ways as well. A single VCR can serve television sets in different rooms or a single stereo system can send different programs to each room in the house. This can save you dollars on purchasing and upgrading appliances.

Adds Convenience. It provides both convenience and energy savings by automatically shutting or opening your drapes or shades and adjusting the tilt of the blinds according to the position of the sun. And it enables you to remotely activate the climate controls in your vacation home while you are still on route, so that you arrive to enjoy a comfortable temperature with the house already well lit.

Provides Security.  With Home Automation, you can see who's at the front door or in the yard or check up on the sleeping baby from the TV in the kitchen or while you are working at your computer.

Increases Quality Of Life. For a person with a disability, Home Automation is an absolute boon and can improve the quality of life dramatically. Actions which would require help can be done unaided by a disabled person using a remote control or even by voice command.

Benefits Seniors. An automated home permits seniors to continue to live alone and retain their independence. It postpones the time they have to move to a retirement home.

Home Automation integrates all the systems in your house: home theatre, audio, climate control, motorized drapes, telephones, lighting and security. There is no limit to what home automation can do for. For some examples of how Home Automation can work for you, click here.

Smart Homes are convenient, energy and cost efficient, fun to live in, and indispensable for the disabled.  And automation adds value to your home!

If you are planning to build a new home or to renovate your existing home, now is the time to install Home Automation. Don t spend your money on a home that will be obsolete before its time!  Read about our many Services and learn of the many ways in which Berkshire Alarm's Home Automation can serve you. We'd love to help you plan your Home Automation System.

Berkshire Alarm's Home Automation is approved by the major home automation control firms. We are an officially certified Leviton Integrated Networks dealer and installer.

Home Audio
Whole House Audio/Video: Distribute music and movies to every room in your home. Listen to a CD in your kitchen while a family member listens to the radio in the living room.

Whole House Integration: One in-wall touchpanel in each room can control all of the systems in your home: audio/video, lighting, shades/drapes, security, HVAC, etc.

State-of-the-art music systems: Our passion for music, the best brands in audio, and our years of experience lead to the creation of the finest audio systems in and around Litchfield & Hartford county.

Custom Design/Installation: Our system design and installation is performed by our trained staff and we work with the most reputable contractors in the industry.

Fire Prevention

There are many ways a fire can start. Whether it be an accident or deliberately ignited it is always best to protect yourself and premises by fitting some type of approved fire detection system.

Berkshire Alarm provides the worlds most recognized names in security.  Bosch Security Systems manufactures high quality and innovative fire protection equipment for multiple applications. Commercial and residential, as well as high-rise and new construction, can all benefit from our expertise and technological prowess. 
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What You Should Know:

Sobering Statistics
Do you take fire prevention seriously? Consider these statistics: Fire is one of the leading causes of accidental death in the home. Fire most often affects children and the elderly. Fires account for more than $2 billion in damage to homes each year. To keep your home and family safe from fire, follow these prevention measures from the home security experts at Berkshire Alarm.

Fire Prevention Tactics
Fires can begin anywhere, but your kitchen and garage pose the biggest threats for in-home blazes. Here's how to reduce your risk of fire in vulnerable places, along with tips to protect items in your home.

Appliances and tools
Use only UL (Underwriters Laboratories)-listed or FM (Factory Mutual)-approved appliances and tools, checking regularly for frayed or worn power cords or plugs. Replace faulty cords immediately. Never operate appliances, switches or outlets with wet hands or plug in more appliances than a socket is designed to handle.

Stove
Keep areas around stoves, refrigerators, and dishwashers clean to prevent dust particles from igniting. Don't store flammable items over the stove. Turn pot handles inward so children can't pull them down. It's also a good idea to keep a fire extinguisher on a wall nearby the stove.

Trash
Keep trash and other items away from the furnace or water heater, preferably stored in sealed containers.

Heating equipment
Experts advise that you check heating equipment annually. Never store gasoline and other flammables near heating equipment or a pilot light. Instead, store them in tight metal containers away from the house.

Know Your Fire Prevention Equipment
Smoke detectors are an important and effective tool to alert you of a fire in your home and/or awaken you from sleep; note that most deaths from fire occur when people are sleeping. The National Fire Protection Association recommends that you install one smoke detector outside each bedroom and on all levels of your home and that you test all your smoke detectors at least one a month.

You may want to consider installing a monitored fire detection system. It sounds an audible alarm and automatically sends a signal to a monitoring center that can quickly dispatch the fire department. For more information, request a home security analysis with the home security experts at Berkshire Alarm.

Fire extinguishers
A fire extinguisher can help you control a small fire and prevent further damage. A multi-purpose dry chemical fire extinguisher, labeled A-B-C, is effective against most types of fires.

Fire extinguishers designed for fighting specific fire forms are especially useful in the following areas of your home:

  • Type A (for the den or living areas): Use Type A on ordinary combustibles such as paper, cloth, wood, rubber and many plastics.
  • Type B (for the kitchen or garage): Use Type B on flammable liquids such as oils, gasoline, kitchen grease, paints, and solvents.
  • Type C (for the basement or workroom): Use Type C on electrical fires from wiring, fuse boxes, motors, power tools, appliances and electronics.

One Fire Escape Route Not Enough
In the event of a large, uncontrollable fire, your best defense is a quick escape. Plan a fire escape route and an alternate route to be used when the main route is blocked by fire. Practice taking the escape and alternate routes regularly with your family. 

Structured Wiring

Whether you want to set up a home office or enjoy multi-room stereo and video, Berkshire Alarm provides structured wiring services for new construction as well as retrofitting for existing homes. Berkshire Alarm is a certified Leviton Integrated Networks installer. 

Make Tomorrow’s Technologies Part of Your Home Today

This consumer flyer explains how the Leviton Structured Media infrastructure will support both today’s and tomorrow’s home entertainment and information technologies. Homebuyers learn how structured wiring adapts to their changing connectivity needs – whether they want to set up a home office or enjoy multi-room stereo and video.

 Builder Brochure

This brochure explains to the builder why the Leviton Integrated Networks’ home system is the “option” that’s an essential for today’s satisfying the expectations of their new “wired society” homebuyers.

 Frequently Asked Questions About Leviton and Structured Wiring

This consumer piece utilizes a Q & A format to answer such leading questions as “What is a Leviton Structured Media™ System?”  “How does it work?” What are its benefits?” and “How much does it cost?”
Did you know?

The national association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports that one in three homes built in the U.S. last year featured structured wiring systems.

About 4 million homes now have structured wiring according to the NAHB

 

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