Home alarms on the Costa Daurada: protected wherever you are.

How we protect you

Home security on the Costa Daurada: how we protect you

Home security on the Costa Daurada depends on which stretch of coast your home is on. In Salou and La Pineda, apartments in tall blocks near the beach are let to families on PortAventura holidays in summer and stay shut for much of the winter. Cambrils, Altafulla and Calafell have more townhouses, and more people who live in them all year. Further south, villas on bigger plots in Miami Platja, around the coves of L’Ametlla de Mar and at L’Ampolla on the edge of the Ebro delta are further from their neighbours and, out of season, can go weeks without a car in the drive.

From a Salou apartment to a villa in L’Ampolla, the alarm reacts in the same way. Say someone forces the side window of a villa in Miami Platja on a November night, with the rest of the urbanisation dark. The window sensor reacts, the camera detector in that room records images and sound, and those go straight to an operator at Segurma’s Alarm Receiving Centre, who looks before anyone is phoned. When it is a real intrusion, the operator rings the police with the images ready to show them, the siren in the apartment goes off, and the alert reaches you in Edinburgh, Utrecht or wherever you happen to be. If it was your cleaner from Cambrils turning up a day early, nobody is sent.

The app keeps you in charge from a distance: if you leave the villa in L’Ampolla in a hurry and forget to set the alarm, you can arm it from the departure lounge at Reus, and with the Kit Tranquilidad Plus you can look at the living room in Cambrils live after a storm has gone through. The control panel connects over the internet and the 4G/5G mobile network and has a backup battery, so a power cut in a late-summer storm over Salou or a fibre outage in an urbanisation above L’Ametlla de Mar does not leave the house unwatched.

That is what lets you stop worrying from October to June. A monitored alarm with 24/7 monitoring means someone checks the images and alerts the police for the apartment in Salou or the villa in L’Ampolla while you are back in the UK, so second home security on this coast stops depending on a neighbour. Nobody in Cambrils has to walk round and check the shutters after every storm, and you will not discover a break-in when you open the front door next summer.

When nobody is there

Holiday homes, empty months and squatters on the Costa Daurada

On the Costa Daurada the season has a hard edge. From June to September Salou, La Pineda and Cambrils are full; then many apartment blocks pull their shutters down until Easter, and plenty of the neighbours, from Barcelona, Lleida or Zaragoza, only come back in summer. Out at Miami Platja and L’Ampolla, villas can stand empty through the whole winter with nobody passing the gate for days at a time. That quiet is the risk: a door forced in an empty block in Salou in January can go unnoticed for weeks, which is exactly the kind of chance squatters wait for.

An alarm watched around the clock changes that, because the police know while the break-in is happening, not weeks later. If squatters do manage to settle into an apartment in Cambrils, you are looking at a court case and a long wait. Give a tag to the neighbour who lives in Altafulla all year, or to the person who checks your villa in L’Ametlla de Mar after a storm, and the app tells you each time they let themselves in. In Salou, the deterrent sign by your door also tells anyone trying handles along the landing that this flat is watched.