The surge in the alarm system market is one that is quite recent, in fact it is only in the last twenty or so years that alas systems have moved out of the rich areas and now become common sights among the more average folk. Alarm systems are now not just common but hey have become almost essential in the average South African home.
People have become so obsessed with security in South Africa that homes are beginning to look like army bases, with electric fences, laser beams and pressure pads making up part of the arsenal in modern alarm systems. Alarm systems have taken on the proportions of military installations and the amount of money that people are spending on domestic alarm systems is quite scary especially if you consider that they are spending much more on the alarm systems for their places of business. The companies that are installing these new fancy alarm systems are soon heading for a place where they will have a licence to print money.
Security companies are starting to come across as private armies. The disappointing part about the new alarm systems is the fact that in many cases the alarm systems are not even necessary. People are moving towards the trend of living in secure burbs, which are completely surrounded by walls, topped with electric fences, and these secure burbs have 24 hour security supplied by the same companies who install the alarm systems, but if the walls and security are doing their job then why do people still need these fancy alarm systems.
The alarm system companies prey on the paranoia of people in countries like south Africa and exploit them into buying these overly elaborate alarm systems which, given the level of other security measures in place, should not even be necessary. So why do intelligent people allow these alarm system companies take advantage of them in such a blatant and obvious manner, because alarm systems have become like guns; and it is better to have and not need it, than the other way round.
