How Is ADT Helping Combat Wi-Fi Jamming?
Home security systems are more adaptable and connected to your household than ever before. Unfortunately, criminals are adapting too. As smart homes in New Brunswick have grown accustomed to wireless communications, thieves have developed a way to disrupt them via Wi-Fi jamming. Read more about this practice and what the home security experts at ADT are doing to fight it.
What Is Wi-Fi Jamming?
Wi-Fi jamming is a form of wireless network attack in which a device overwhelms radio frequencies often used in home Wi-Fi. Generally speaking, it keeps smart home tools like surveillance cameras, from working and communicating dependably. You can visualize your home’s Wi-Fi frequencies as highways that carry data from one location to another. A Wi-Fi jamming device causes a traffic jam, preventing the transmission of data and eventually shutting down your security completely.
Even though Wi-Fi jamming is unlawful in the U.S., stopping it is challenging. Yet, ADT is taking a lead role in reducing the reach of this criminal endeavor.
How ADT Remains A Step Ahead
The home security experts at ADT work hard to keep your loved ones safeguarded and your New Brunswick home security system out of the reach of tech-savvy criminals. Here are two of the ways ADT prevents intrusions from Wi-Fi jamming:
- Tamper-free communications. Instead of counting on Wi-Fi entirely, ADT incorporates a separate communications protocol, Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications–Ultra Low Energy (DECT ULE). This protocol is effective for home security devices, home automation, and other low-power, extended-range purposes. DECT ULE runs at different frequencies than the typical 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi bands, which are vulnerable to Wi-Fi jamming.
- Cellular reinforcement. ADT knows you have to prevent single points of failure in home security communications. Taking that into account, ADT’s modern smart homes come equipped with cellular backups, offering redundancy and reliability. With DECT ULE and cellular alternatives, you have a layered defense against wireless threats and a method to connect with monitoring specialists if Wi-Fi is lost.
While your home security system is equipped to combat this danger, ADT is doing more to defend you.
ADT Backs Law Against Wi-Fi Jamming Devices
Leading the way in residential security for greater than 150 years, ADT recently advocated for legislation to make the utilization of Wi-Fi jamming devices a crime. Oregon Senate Bill 959 was signed into law on May 22, 2025, putting Wi-Fi jammers on the state’s record of burglary tools. Despite the fact the bill is a nice victory against intruders, ADT knows there is more to do and is dilligently urging other states to follow suit.
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