When my sister had her home security system installed, she also had an automatic lighting system installed.

It basically works the same way as at dusk to dawn might or a motion detector.

The difference is, that her automatic lighting system not only comes on when it detects motion, but it records it directly to a computer. With a few pushes of the buttons on the laptop, she could see all activity that had gone on in her yard for up to one month. She said the automatic lighting system was her favorite part of the home security system. If the monitoring system detected headlights, the entire house would be lit up from the outside. Two seconds later, the inside lights would come on as if people had been awakened by the outside floodlights. Anything coming on the property by foot, would just trigger the outside lights. This was normally enough to chase animal and man off the property. I was surprised when she told me she was putting a home security system on her property. There nearest neighbor was a mile and 1/2 away, and you seldom saw people near the house. She told me that was exactly what she felt she needed a home security system. With no one around, is someone would come across the house and try to break in, they would have no one close by to contact. The way she looked at a, unless you were friends or family, or invited to the house, you had no business being there. She laughed when she told me the lights even chased away a baby bear and its mama when they got too close to the trash can.

Building Access Control System