The new generation of CCTV Technology, IP Cameras, are beginning to flex their ‘megapixel muscles’ and many of us are gasping in amazement at the new image quality and the fact that these cameras can produce many millions of pixels (compared to say 400,000 pixels an analogue camera might produce).
But what about the analogue cctv technology?
Will the battle to provide more and more pixels on a camera stop the enhancements still possible in analogue technology and what about the millions of legacy cctv installs that are currently running on Coaxial Cable?
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CCTV Installation and Image capture in Winter is the most challenging time of the year.
This is when CCTV Cameras are really put to the test. With freezing temperatures, bright low sunlight causing glare, shorter daylight hours and heavy rain, snow and ice – this is often the time when people find out if they really got the right camera for the job!
A CCTV Camera is not just for summer!
It’s important to think of the job the camera has to do throughout the year!
It’s all very well capturing people’s faces or licence plates in the summer but when it’s dark at 4pm and you have no external lighting or Infra Red/White Illumination, you suddenly have a camera that is not fit for the environment it is in.
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Christmas is coming!
A time for giving and sharing but what about the excess drinking, vandalism, trespassing and general crime increases? For a lot of businesses, Christmas is a serious security concern which must be addressed and at no time is the CCTV System more important.
With a skeleton staff or no staff at all, the Christmas holiday period leaves many businesses open to criminal damage, trespass and robbery.
An option that more and more businesses are using for out of ours or holiday periods is Remote Video Monitoring.
Remote Video Monitoring
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