Keeping tabs on your house

fter four years of living with a traditional wired security system at his Mariposa, CA, home, Jim Allen was ready for a change. “I was tired of walking through the door with my arms full of groceries thinking, ” he recalls. He was also paying $40 per month for professional monitoring, with a price hike looming. So Jim canceled his service—which took nearly a week of customer service calls—and installed a smart home-security package