Video Surveillance Solutions
His Security & Technology can offer multiple solutions to fit your needs and budget. Cameras are an excellent layer to your security plan. They offer excellent prosecution evidence, and as such, can provide a deterrence factor when placed correctly and utilized to maximum security benefit. But, all cameras are not the same, and with this growing field of options, talking to professionals can help you know what the best solution is for you and your business.
Video has evolved. Now, even the smallest business can afford video coverage; from doorbell cameras to high resolution video cameras with constant recording; His Security & Technology offers a wide array of options. Do you need analytics to make your recordings smarter and more effective? Maybe you need convenience cameras, the ones that integrate into a smart security system for triggered recordings and live-views? Just need to capture a view when specific events happen? We can consult with you and determine the best solution for your needs, assessing a quoting at no charge.
Video Surveillance
Get the protection and insights of having an eye in the sky. Help limit liability claims and see what’s happening at your business from anywhere with 24/7 live look-in access from the web or your smart phone. Watch over your customer traffic, employee activity and assets, while minimizing false alarms and fines.
Know What’s Happening, Instantly
- Get instant visual verification with Video Monitoring and Image Sensor
- View what’s happening at your property in real-time
- Receive awareness alerts to see if your business is opening or closing on time
- Manage multiple business locations through a single login
His Security & Technology offers a full line of video surveillance solutions, from standalone NVR applications to enterprise-level IP-based video solutions. Watch indoor and outdoor areas; mount surveillance operations even in extreme temperatures and climates.
Security and Surveillance Camera Options
Although the acronym CCTV is still used as a general term to describe a video surveillance system (especially in commercial applications), it rarely refers to Closed Circuit Television anymore. It now generally indicates installation of a system of cameras designed to capture activity in and around the area or building where they are mounted. This “capture” can be in the form of a feed of digital video to a central monitoring station, and/or to a recording device, and/or to the internet cloud.
Depending on your needs, you can choose from a wide range of capabilities:
- Simple observation, such as the timely arrival of property maintenance trucks
- Recognition, to see the employees in attendance or on the job site
- Identification, for management or potential legal reasons
- Automatically produce and store full-color video of any event
- Save video to your desktop
- Email video clips to anyone, such as your loss prevention manager or a law enforcement agency
Cameras
There are many options today for cameras in surveillance. The technology used for cameras today have made them smaller, of higher resolution in image quality, less expensive, greater storage capability, and easier to include in an environment requiring flexibility. Gone are the days of blurry images in black and white, from a large obvious camera placed in proximity to electricity and close enough to the area to be surveilled to insure enough detail is captured to make the cameras useful to the purpose of security.
Today, IP cameras can be placed almost anywhere, controlled remotely, and the video captured can be viewed and/or recorded remotely; thus expanding their effectiveness in enhancing security through the promise of observation.
Decisions about cameras should be based on location, indoor or outdoor placement, day/night viewing, viewing range, needed controls (zoom, panning, etc.), quality of the images collected (resolution requirements) for detail, and how the video will be monitored (over the internet, live feed on a monitor, and direct to a storage device).
Placement
Video cameras today can be placed anywhere they can connect to an IP network. When properly and professionally installed, they are configured into a secure network, feeding the digital video images captured to designated location(s) in the network to be accessed for real-time viewing or stored for future access. Audio capture can also be configured into placement decisions, if required.
Remote Access
Due to cameras operating on an IP network, each with its own IP address, cameras can be set up to be accessed remotely for viewing, video storage, and control. It no longer requires many thousands of dollars to have a video camera that allows the owner to remotely control it, enabling real-time adjustments of focus, zoom, and angle; thus providing the best quality of images for the specific needs to the owner and their particular security needs. Plus, with the flexibility of digital capture, end-users can snap a quick still shot, watch in real-time, or store days of video to secure, off premise locations for review, reference, and in some cases, prosecution long after the day of incident. In some cases, cameras can be set up for multiple streams at different compression levels to different locations as dictated by the needs of the environment and customer’s security requirements.
Enhanced Usability
Today’s IP cameras, when integrated into a security system, can be designed to respond to motion, be programmed into system scenarios for automated activity, notify the system (and therefore authorized managers and owners with automated alerts) of events, provide video data for analysis, respond intelligently to a closed security system’s other components, and more.
Flexibility
With the advent of wireless technology, location, purpose, and scalability are easily accommodated in a video system today. Changes in the environment, use of different spaces, and the risks meant to be mitigated through the use of surveillance can now be altered without hardship. Cameras can be moved, swapped out with different types, and new cameras can be added to the system without much difficulty. Considerations that impact these changes come in the recording software and equipment as well as storage expansion.
The greatest benefit to video as part of an integrated system is what’s known as “video verification”; the benefit of seeing in real time what is happening at the location when an event occurs. This window can provide valuable insight in an emergency situation, reduce false alarms, and facilitate investigation and prosecution after the event if needed.
For the average person, video surveillance is a tool for seeing what is happening at the office when they are not there. It provides additional security by allowing the system owner and authorized users to monitor visually through live streaming. In addition, an integrated system provides opportunities for video clip capture, secure cloud storage, instant video alerts, and continuous high definition recording.