New phone apps give homeowners smart-home security

PEACE OF MIND: Home owners worried about security while they are at work or on vacation have a range of new smartphone apps to help them remotely monitor their property and to notify them if there is a problem. — Reuters

AMSTERDAM: Home owners worried about security while they are at work or on vacation have a range of new smartphone apps to help them remotely monitor their property and to notify them if there is a problem. 

In the United States in 2012 there were more than 2 million burglaries, or about one every 15 seconds, according to government crime figures.