Home alarms in Barcelona or on the Garraf coast: protected wherever you are.

How we protect you

Home security in Barcelona or on the Garraf coast: how we protect you

Home security in Barcelona starts with the building. Many English speakers in the city live in flats in the Eixample, Gràcia or Sant Gervasi: a street door, a shared staircase, then your own door, with a long corridor inside and a gallery over the inner courtyard at the back. Outside the city the homes open up. Sant Cugat has terraced and detached houses with gardens, popular with international families. Along the coast there are flats a street back from the beach in Sitges, houses among the pines in Castelldefels and Gavà Mar, and hillside homes in the Maresme, around Cabrils, Alella and Arenys de Mar. Each needs a different plan, and the free survey draws it up.

In an Eixample flat, sensors go on the door from the landing and on the glass doors to the rear gallery, and a camera detector covers the corridor that every room opens onto. In a house in Sant Cugat or Alella, every door onto the garden gets a sensor, and an outdoor detector can watch the lawn or the pool. When something trips, the camera detectors send images and sound to Segurma’s Alarm Receiving Centre, and a person there watches them before deciding who, if anyone, to call. A real intrusion goes to the police with those pictures as proof, the siren in the flat starts up, and the alert reaches your phone, whether you are on the beach in Castelldefels or in a meeting in London. If it was your cleaner letting themselves into the flat in Gràcia, nobody is sent.

The app goes wherever you go. You arm the flat from the taxi to El Prat, check alerts from London or a work trip, and with the Kit Tranquilidad Plus watch the IP camera live. If the cleaner comes on Thursdays while you are away, you disarm for them from the app and arm again when they leave. The control panel connects over the internet and over the 4G/5G mobile network, with a backup battery, so street works that cut the building’s fibre, or a summer storm that knocks out the power in Sitges, don’t leave your home unwatched.

That is what a monitored alarm in Barcelona should do: 24/7 monitoring by people who check before they call, an alarm connected to the police with the images as evidence, and an alert on your phone wherever you are. You can lock the door in Sant Gervasi, or close up the house in Sitges at the end of the summer, and get on with your trip knowing that someone else is keeping watch.

When nobody is there

Holiday homes, empty months and squatters in Barcelona or on the Garraf coast

Barcelona province empties in two different ways. The coast fills up from June to September and at weekends, then the flats in Sitges and the houses in Castelldefels, Gavà Mar or Arenys de Mar sit shut through autumn and winter, often with nobody nearby who would notice a forced shutter. The city empties the other way round: the Eixample and Gràcia go quiet in August, and families in Sant Cugat lock up for the school holidays and trips home. A flat with the same shutters closed for weeks, or a beach house with no car outside in February, is what burglars and squatters watch for. Once squatters have settled in, removing them usually means a court case and months.

A monitored alarm changes what happens in that window. If someone forces the garden door of a house in Gavà Mar on a winter night, the images are checked at the centre and passed to the police while that person is still inside, which is when the police can still do something about it. You get the alert at the same moment. That is second home security that works whether you are in the city or abroad. Leave a tag with the neighbour across the landing, the building’s porter or the agency that looks after your Sitges flat, and the app shows you each time they come in.