Home
Security Cameras
Introduction.
In
these days there are many basic ways you can help to keep your home
safe and secure. Installing a burglar alarm or home security cameras
can give you an extra level of security and peace of mind, both when
you are at home or away from your property. As well as helping you to
secure your home the security cameras can be located to monitor
external access points to your property such as; gates and driveways,
external building such as a garage or shed and the garden/grounds of
your property. Unfortunately crime rates are still increasing and
therefore having a high quality security camera system will also help
your local police to identify and apprehend anyone posing a threat to
your property.
Home
security camera systems.
Today
there are many different home
security systems which incorporate camera surveillance and
recording. In the past this would have involved equipment like quads,
multiplexers and VHS recorders. They did their job but were both
cumbersome to install and operate. Just imagine searching through a
video tape recording several days of activity to locate one moment in
time? In contrast modern home security camera systems use stand alone
and networked cameras linked to DVRs - Digital Video Recorders - that
will record only when a sensor, usually a motion sensor, triggers them.
Not only they are having better quality and are more reliable than the
old systems but you can also instantly locate any moment or event in
the digital cyclic recording. Being a computer based system, you can
view them from anywhere in the world should you choose to. Another
great feature you can incorporate into the system is receiving an alert
to your cell phone if a camera is activated when your property is
supposed to be vacated. With a modern cell phone you can even view what
your home security cameras are showing on your cell phone as well.
What to
expect in a home security camera system.
You
can have any camera system configuration you want integrated into your
overall home security system. Unnecessary to say the bigger and more
complex the property the bigger the system may need to be, but
fortunately it won’t become more complex. A minimum
recommendation for camera home surveillance equipment would be two IR
cameras, meaning that they can ‘see in the night’
using infra red, linked to a 120Gb DVR with motion detection - capable
of recording up to 30 continuous days, before they will begin an
over-recording cycle. To view what the cameras are showing or have
recorded a color monitor of some description will also be required. A
larger system will of course have at least four IR cameras, possibly
with a greater depth of night vision penetration, linked to a 500Gb
motion detection DVR and a viewing monitor. The larger size DVR is
required to cope with an anticipated higher rate of recording and yet
will maintain the up to 30 days worth of recording potential.
Different
home security camera options.
Having
consulted some of the readily available digital video surveillance
guidelines, there are a couple of things over and above the previously
described basic home security camera systems that you could actually
install. These are whether to have IP cameras and ones that will tilt
and swivel. The vast majority of security cameras that are supplied by
reputable and established home security installation companies, like
ADT, are suitable for internal and external use. They can be enclosed
in domes so that an intruder cannot be sure exactly where on or in your
property the camera is pointing, or they can be left uncovered and
openly showing what they are looking at. Whether enclosed or open it is
additionally possible to install cameras that will tilt and swivel to
actively follow an intruder, which is an option you might like to
discuss with the security system installer. The final option to
consider is using IP cameras. An IP camera simply means that, in a
networked system, it can have an IP - Internet Protocol - address
assigned to it, meaning that you can then view what the camera is
showing over the internet.
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