Holiday homes
Holiday home and second home security
An empty house has two enemies: the one who gets in, and the water that gets out. Perimeter detection with phone alerts in any country, water and power telemetry, and a system that also tells you when it has stopped working.
The real risks of an empty house, in order
The silent one
A burst pipe in an empty house drips for weeks: floors, furniture, structure. Leak detection with automatic mains shut-off — linkable to arming the alarm.
Early detection + image
Radar or LiDAR on the perimeter, an AI camera to verify, a photo alert to your phone. The animal category stops the local wildlife raising alerts every night.
The failure nobody sees
Expired SIM, dead router, full disk. The hourly heartbeat turns any failure into an immediate alert instead of a surprise on your return.
About squatting, without the myths
The “48-hour rule” does not exist as such: what matters legally is flagrancia and the specific offence, and since the 2025 reform home invasion and usurpation are handled by fast-track trial. That is why we sell no “miracle anti-squatter systems”: what a technical system genuinely does — and does well — is detect entry the moment it happens, verify it with images and document it, which is exactly what the fast-track route needs. Everything else is marketing.
Frequently asked questions
How do I monitor my Spanish home from the UK?
Every alert reaches your phone with an image, wherever you are, with no receiving centre. You see the photo and decide whom to call; the system also reports on its own state.
What fails first in an empty house?
Water: a burst pipe drips for weeks and the damage is the floor, furniture and structure, not the bill. That is why leak detection with automatic shut-off comes first.
Can the system shut off the water when I leave?
Yes: leak detection with mains shut-off can be tied to arming the alarm — when you leave, the house closes its own water.
How do I protect the property from squatters?
By detecting and documenting the entry as early as possible: that is what the fast-track route (fast-track trial since the 2025 reform) needs. We sell no “miracle anti-squatter systems” — early detection with images is what works.
Is the 48-hour squatter rule real?
No, it is a myth. What matters legally is flagrancia and the specific offence; the “48-hour window” does not exist as such. Catching the entry in the moment is what makes the difference.
Will it alert me if the power fails while I am away?
Yes: with an hourly heartbeat and UPS across the chain. The outage becomes an alert, not a silence you discover on return.
And if the internet drops at the house?
The local critical chain (siren, recording, relay) keeps working without the internet, and a second communication path independent of the router keeps the alerts flowing.
Does it work on a finca with no fixed connection?
Yes: the critical part is local and alerts use the available mobile coverage. The exact design comes from measuring coverage during the visit.
Do I need a keyholder or a trusted neighbour?
It is advisable as a complement: we detect, verify and alert, but we provide no patrol or physical response. We coordinate with your property manager or keyholder if you have one.
Can I simulate presence in the empty house?
Zoned lighting and automations can be integrated to reinforce deterrence. It is a complement, not a substitute for detection.
Does it detect frost or humidity as well as leaks?
Yes: household telemetry can include temperature, humidity and power cuts, alongside water and the pool pump.
Does it suit an apartment I let seasonally?
We work with private homes; for frequent check-ins and check-outs, access control with temporary credentials fits well. The case is assessed.
How much does it cost to protect a second home?
It depends on the plot and the layers needed. After the visit you get one fixed price; we do not quote figures by phone.
Do you serve owners who live outside Spain?
Constantly: a large share of our clients live abroad part of the year. Service and documentation in English or Spanish, and remote coordination.
Is there a monthly fee for the remote alert?
Not a compulsory one: the alert reaches your phone with no receiving centre and no monthly payment. Maintenance is optional.
How do I protect a house that stands empty for months?
Three layers: early perimeter detection with image verification; household telemetry — water, power, humidity — because the most expensive damage in an empty house is not burglary but a burst pipe dripping for weeks; and an hourly heartbeat, so a system failure becomes an alert rather than a silence.
I live abroad. How do I find out what is happening?
Every alert reaches your phone with an image, wherever you are. There is no receiving centre: you see the photo and decide — call a neighbour, your keyholder or, if warranted, the emergency services. We are honest about this: we provide no guarding and no patrol response.
Is it true squatters cannot be evicted after 48 hours?
No — the “48-hour rule” is a myth. What matters legally is flagrancia (catching the act in progress) and the specific offence; since the 2025 reform, home invasion and usurpation also go to fast-track trials. What genuinely helps is detecting and documenting the entry immediately — exactly what a perimeter system with images does.
Can the system shut off the water if there is a leak?
Yes: leak detection with automatic shut-off of the mains valve, and it can be tied to arming the system — when you leave, the house closes its own water. For a second home it is the best cost-to-damage-avoided measure there is.
What if the power or internet fails while I am away?
You get an alert about the outage (heartbeat plus UPS across the chain, with a second communication path independent of the router). The local critical chain — siren, recording, relay — keeps working without the internet.
Do you work with foreign owners?
Constantly — a large share of our clients live abroad part of the year. Service and documentation in English or Spanish, and coordination with your property manager or keyholder if you have one.
Access points
The weak point isn't the fence — it's the gate
In most homes the intruder does not climb the highest wall; they come in where there is already a gap made for coming in: the vehicle gate, the service door, the gardener's or the pool access. These are the points legitimate people use every day, and precisely for that reason the worst-watched.
In your area we treat those accesses as zones in their own right: detection that tells the expected passage from the one that is not, image verification of who arrives, and a record of every opening. The point is not to turn your home into a bunker, but to know who comes in when you are away, and to make sure an open service door is not an invisible hole.
Where there is domestic staff, maintenance or frequent deliveries, this is the layer that turns a normal flow of people into something traceable, with no friction for you.
Deterrence
Deterring beats recording the burglar
The best incident is the one that never happens. An intruder sizing up a house looks for the easy way in, and a plot that visibly detects, lights up and reacts is a plot that gets skipped for the next one. Visible deterrence does more work than any recording after the fact.
In your area we pair early detection with zoned response: when something enters the perimeter, that zone's lighting comes on and, where appropriate, the siren marks presence. It is not theatre: behind it is a real detection that has already classified this as a person, so the reaction does not trip on a cat or disturb the neighbours for nothing.
The goal is not to collect videos of attempts, but for there to be no attempt. A perimeter that reacts in time changes the equation for whoever is watching from outside.
The process
From the visit to a fixed quote
On-site technical visit
We walk the plot with you: boundaries, access points, blind spots, vegetation and where an intruder would actually come from. Without this visit there is no serious quote, because every plot in your area has its own geometry.
Shadow and sight-line map
We mark where radar covers the open volume, where a hedge or wall casts a shadow, and which critical planes — glass facade, gate, low wall — call for a LiDAR curtain.
Layered design
We choose which layer solves each stretch: radar for the garden, LiDAR for the fine plane, thermal for the long unlit line, AI to decide. Neither too much nor too little.
Fixed quote
You get a fixed written price, with the specific equipment and the reason for it. What you see is what you pay; no surprises halfway through.
Install, test and handover
We mount, configure and test detection with real walk-throughs. We hand the system over working, explained and documented in your language.
Transparency
What we don't do, said plainly
Technical honesty starts with the limits. We are not an alarm receiving centre (ARC) and provide no guarding, patrol or physical response, and we do not guarantee the intervention of the security forces: the systems we install are not connected to a central station, and the alert, with an image, reaches you directly. No compulsory fee.
Nor do we promise that nothing can ever get in. No system is infallible. What a good perimeter does is detect earlier, verify with an image and give you time and evidence to act — alert, light up, record — while the intruder is still at the fence and not in the living room.
We work only with private homes — villas, chalets and fincas in your area — because it is what we do well. We would rather tell you what a system does not cover before installing it than after.
Thermal
Seeing at night without a single light on
A thermal camera sees no colour and no detail: it sees heat. A human body stands out against cold ground even with no street lamp, which is why it is the most reliable layer for long sight lines and unlit fincas, where an ordinary camera would see only black.
In practice, on a person of average height, thermal detects presence at tens of metres, recognises a human figure at mid-range and identifies in detail closer in — the classic detect/recognise/identify pattern. On a long your area perimeter that means knowing someone has entered the line well before they reach the house, without depending on any light being on.
It does not replace the AI that decides or the radar that covers volume: it combines with them. Thermal puts eyes where there is no light; the AI says whether that heat is a person, a wild boar or a car's hot engine.
Shall we talk about your home?
No-obligation technical visit anywhere in the province of Malaga. We work in English and Spanish.