Brands
Home security brands: who makes what, and what each one is good at
Most brands here are excellent at one thing and ordinary at the rest. These pages say which is which, what a range costs to keep running once its subscription, cards and cells are counted, and where the same factory sells the same camera under three badges.
- ABUS Germany The widest presence in this catalog, from locks to alarms 13 products
- Tapo China, TP-Link TP-Link's camera line, and the one that keeps detection out of the subscription 13 products
- Reolink China Local storage, FTP, and no subscription required to record 8 products
- Amazon Basics United States, Amazon The commodity option, and honest about being one 7 products
- BURG-WÄCHTER Germany A safe manufacturer, and it shows in the castings rather than in the marketing 5 products
- Ring United States, Amazon One app for the whole system, and no recording without a plan 14 products
- BASI Germany German lock hardware, sold in the quantities a whole house needs 5 products
- TECKNET China Standalone alarms and chimes, for the jobs that do not want a system 4 products
- EZVIZ China Intercoms with a screen on the wall, and unusually honest listings 3 products
- HUXGO China Alarm kits with a 4G fallback rather than 2G 4 products
- Goliath Germany 868 MHz two-way radio, in a category that mostly uses whatever is cheapest 3 products
- ieGeek China Battery cameras that publish a runtime range instead of a single number 3 products
- GRIFEMA China Two key safes and a floodlight, with few claims beyond the basics 3 products
- HMF Germany The only safe maker here that publishes both wall and door thickness 2 products
- KESSER Germany A safe designed around how it fails: external batteries and three double bolts 1 product
- Balter Germany Intercoms that publish their impact rating, IK07, on the street panel 2 products
- Brennenstuhl Germany German electrical accessories that publish their detection figures 1 product
- Steinel Germany The motion-sensor specialist, and the only warm lights in this hub 2 products
- Imou China, Dahua Cameras and viewers that state their detection and their limits 2 products
- Yale United Kingdom Peephole replacements that do one thing and connect to nothing 2 products
- X-Sense China Detection specialists, and the only connected leak sensor here 3 products
- ToniTec Germany ABUS-made cylinders in an alloy chosen for weather 2 products
- SanDisk United States, Western Digital Fast cards, sold for a job that is not continuous recording 2 products