A very visible camera such as this is a great deterrent, and usually police can identify the people that took your property so the chance of recovering it is much greater.Security cameras do not stop crimes/thefts, it just records them so you can post on here and youtube-
Because it texts you when it detects motion it can be useful for alerting you to events happening when you're sleeping, giving you a chance to intervene. The motion detection is set up in "hot boxes" so you can draw a box around your driveway or front lawn/property, so if anyone steps foot on it, it will alert you, but cars driving by won't cause false alarms.
-Jamie M.