Home security systems comprising cameras for intruder verification, wireless video transmission devices, portable video monitors, portable computer terminals, and remote controls for cameras; burglar alarm systems and remote surveillance systems comprising cameras, audio recorders, video recorders, still image recorders, digital audio and video recorders and intruder motion detectors; remote video monitoring systems comprising video cameras, motion sensors, LCD, video and television monitors, sound alarms, and remote controls for all of the foregoing system components; perimeter protection systems comprising computer hardware and software for controlling, monitoring and managing home security systems and for transmitting picture, video, and alarm status, motion sensors, sound alarms, LCD, video and television monitors, and remote controls for all of the foregoing system components; wireless radio transmission device and wireless video transmission device; transmission devices and peripherals that send and receive alarms, and intrusion detection signals and video signals, namely, radio receivers and transmitters, and satellite receivers and transmitters; cameras for intruder verification; intruder motion detectors, namely, laser, passive infrared, photoelectric, and microwave motion detectors and motion detectors being combinations thereof; control devices and computer peripherals that generate alarms from intrusion detection signals; digital image capturing devices in the nature of security cameras; image storage device in the nature of apparatus for broadcasting, recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images and video recorders; portable video monitors