In this video a thief is caught on tape stealing a car from a parking lot. The quality of the video isn’t great, but imagine if this business owner had installed Megapixel IP Cameras. There’s a good chance they would have been able to identify this guy using the zoom capabilities of a megapixel security [...]
One of the first things I hear when beginning a conversation about using IP cameras on an existing network is “Will it eat up all my bandwidth and slow everything way down?” The answer, not unless you’re using extremely high resolution cameras, but using cameras with 1-megapixel of resolution or less should have little effect [...]
When choosing the correct camera to see in the dark you need to look at a few options not just at an IR (infrared) camera. You may have an application that requires a low LUX or low light camera and not every dark location needs IR. For instance, if you have a restaurant or night [...]
License Plate Recognition is opening a new chapter in law enforcement, turning street poles, stop lights, and squad cars into surveillance platforms. In the past most people would rush through a yellow light without a second thought. However, statistics over the last five years show that accidents caused by running red lights have dropped by [...]
There are several reasons why many customers want to move from there current DVR and analog systems into the world of network security. Better picture quality and the ease of merging into the IP world, are just a couple of reasons. One of the reasons the conversion to IP cameras and network security is so [...]
Many people have asked the question, “Can you have too much surveillance?” The answer to this question depends on the application of the system. For example, a convenient store may only have one camera watching the register, but a department store like Dillard’s has dozens of security cameras covering registers, clothing racks, entrances, and exits. [...]
When I started work as a salesman in the security industry I prayed for the customer new to security to call and place his order while asking for my suggestions and opinions. I dreaded the thought of speaking with the so called expert. Often times when I did receive a call from a security veteran, [...]
Alarm systems have been a part of security since the beginning. We all know that when an alarm goes off, police are called to respond, but how many of those alarms are false? To just one person or business it seems reasonable for police to respond to even the false alarms, but multiply that by [...]
We all know it takes a lot of effort to keep up with technology changes in the security industry. Over the last decade we’ve seen storage devices shift from the VCR to the DVR and now to the network video recorder. For those of us in this fast paced industry, we’ve had to do our [...]
As technology changes along with the price for IP based solutions, is our reliance on the DVR decreasing? As we look to the future, it is estimated by some that in the next three years IP based video storage will near the 6 Billion dollar mark, which could mean the need for the DVR could [...]
