So finally you have purchased a house in Spain; you can now look forward to endless weeks and months of worrying about it in between your regular visits. The trouble is that when purchasing property abroad you enter into the troubled land of doubt and concern. It’s bad enough leaving your own home unoccupied for a couple of weeks whilst you go on holiday, but how can you make sure that your overseas property is secure without turning it into a military style prison? The easiest solution is simply to install a remote home security system.

Hawkeye™ is a wireless remote home security system which allows you to view, and even control, your overseas property from your own home. Using either your internet connection, or even just your mobile phone, you can quickly and easily view live video images of your property, and control such things as lighting, heating and other electrical devices, helping to not only give the impression of being lived in, but also helping to reduce utility bills.

Often when people think of home security they think of alarm systems – but what good is an alarm if all it does is make a lot of noise? If your property is in Spain and you live in the UK, you’re hardly likely to hear it! However, with the Hawkeye™ home security system, you can be alerted, either through your mobile, home phone or email, should anything untoward be detected by the system.

With a huge range of different types of sensor, the Hawkeye™ system is able to detect not only windows being broken, doors opened and movement, but it is also able to detect smoke, gas emissions, carbon monoxide leakage, power or phone cuts and even flooding. Should any of these situations arrived, you’ll be the first to know. With the live video images immediately available, you’ll be able to check out what’s happening and alert the appropriate people.

Many home security systems require complicated installations, with a team of contractors taking a day or so to knock apart sections of your home, drill countless holes and screw unsightly hunks of electrical equipment all over the place that makes the whole place seem like a set from George Orwell’s 1984. The Hawkeye™ remote home security system is as unlike this as it is possible to imagine.

To begin with, you’ll easily be able to install it yourself – with an average house taking approximately an hour to fully protect. The beauty of this system is that it is almost entirely wireless. Simply position tot cameras, sensors and sirens, plug in your main control box to the phone system, and you’re done! Unlike wired systems which are complicated and unsightly, the wireless system can be installed with minimum fuss, and should you decide to move it to another property, or simply rearrange the setup in the future, it will take almost no time to do so.

Just imagine being able to sit in your office, or at home, bring up the secure web page and monitor live video footage from within your own home. Of course, there’s no need for you to do this yourself, other than for interest, because should anything unusual or suspicious be detected, the remote security system will immediately contact you. Unlike many other home security systems, the Hawkeye™ setup does not rely solely on the landline telephone. Should the phone line either be unavailable, or deliberately sabotaged, then the alerts and data will be sent to you using its backup system. This uses the GSM network, used by mobile phones, to ensure that the message still gets to you straight away. Not only that, but should the power be cut, through accident or damage, then the whole security system will run on the rechargeable batteries for long enough to allow for the problem to be rectified.

Many people leave one or two lights on within a property when they have to leave it for a while, and of course this generates its own problems. To start with, a property that always has the same two or three lights on night after night starts to look suspicious. Not only that, but if the lights are always on, all night, and even during the day, they act as a beacon for those you wish to keep away. With a remote home security system such as Hawkeye™ however, you are able to remotely control the lighting and other items within your property, either manually, or by setting up and editing a programme of events.

There really isn’t much the Hawkeye™ system can’t cope with, or provide, and considering the ease, simplicity and speed with which an entire house can be protected, there’s no other way to ensure that your overseas purchase causes you no more of a headache that worrying about whether to go in July or August for your next visit.