How the Modern CCTV Camera is Satisfying Business and Home Surveillance Needs
Common CCTV camera systems have long been looked to provide security around the loading bays and yards of major warehouses, but times have changed. Once it was just the wealthy who sought the best cameras for to protect businesses and home. Now, owners of more modest homes have adopted the CCTV system as a way to enhance their own home security.
The fact is these cameras are no longer simple devices capable of recording footage. The modern models are more sophisticated, more stylish and considerably smaller than their predecessors. They use infrared LEDs to illuminate dark areas, just as a wildlife camera can. They can also record remotely by connecting directly into a DVR, in the same way that the car camera does. These modern outdoor security cameras have become compact recorders using the sort of technology that makes it almost impossible for anything to slip by them, with a wide range of high tech abilities.
Examples of top line options on the market are provided by the Swann range of cameras. These cameras sport features that make them highly efficient, including fields of vision of more than 65ft, allowing them to capture clear images at a distance. When a subject is close, an auto focus ensures that features are not blurred.
Images these days are recorded in high resolution video because of the use of between 420 and 570 TV lines, depending on a camera model, while a series of infrared LED lights illuminate areas automatically when natural light levels fall low. What this means is that, even at night, the camera can capture clear images at a distance of around 65ft. While the advent of wide angle lenses, now standard in many cameras, means that the minimum number of cameras can be used to cover the maximum area.
Of course, one of the biggest problems for these cameras is maintaining their levels of quality in the various weather conditions. Heavy snow, for example, and torrential rain can play havoc with picture quality. However, fully insulated camera bodies prevent cold conditions from having any detrimental affect on the technology inside, while fully sealed bodies ensures that rain and moisture cannot get in.
In terms of sunshine, meanwhile, and its interference with recording when shining directly or reflecting into the lens, is also countered by a sunshield or sun hood positioned to keep sunlight away. All of these factors make these cameras perfectly suited for factory yards, car parks and industrial parks, but home owners are looking towards the same type of security cameras for the same reasons. While in most cases, the range of area that must be covered by the cameras is much smaller, the gardens and driveways of a country house, for example, can still be extensive.
The desire for the highest possible picture quality means that home owners do look for the best and most reliable models, just as any business owner would. The only key difference, of course, is that the cameras are used to protect a different range of items, such as expensive cars, perhaps, or valuable jewellery.
Also, the fact that these cameras can be easily operated negates the need for expert personnel. Cameras can be connected directly into a TV for live surveillance, or images can be saved on a DVR for later inspection.
Of course, some things about the CCTV camera have not changed. When property owners want it to be seen, it is robust in its presence, offering a clear deterrent to would be intruders. It would be fair to say that this is all part of the effectiveness of a camera based security system, leaving intruders with a sense of having nowhere to run. Of course, they can also be hidden if the owner requests them to be, just like a wildlife camera.
While the future is sure to see more changes made to the outdoor security camera, with perhaps more compact designs such as those amongst the car camera ranges, it will likely always be the most significant element of an overall security system, for either business or home. After all, alarm bells ring only after the camera has caught the assailant on video.
The fact is these cameras are no longer simple devices capable of recording footage. The modern models are more sophisticated, more stylish and considerably smaller than their predecessors. They use infrared LEDs to illuminate dark areas, just as a wildlife camera can. They can also record remotely by connecting directly into a DVR, in the same way that the car camera does. These modern outdoor security cameras have become compact recorders using the sort of technology that makes it almost impossible for anything to slip by them, with a wide range of high tech abilities.
Examples of top line options on the market are provided by the Swann range of cameras. These cameras sport features that make them highly efficient, including fields of vision of more than 65ft, allowing them to capture clear images at a distance. When a subject is close, an auto focus ensures that features are not blurred.
Images these days are recorded in high resolution video because of the use of between 420 and 570 TV lines, depending on a camera model, while a series of infrared LED lights illuminate areas automatically when natural light levels fall low. What this means is that, even at night, the camera can capture clear images at a distance of around 65ft. While the advent of wide angle lenses, now standard in many cameras, means that the minimum number of cameras can be used to cover the maximum area.
Of course, one of the biggest problems for these cameras is maintaining their levels of quality in the various weather conditions. Heavy snow, for example, and torrential rain can play havoc with picture quality. However, fully insulated camera bodies prevent cold conditions from having any detrimental affect on the technology inside, while fully sealed bodies ensures that rain and moisture cannot get in.
In terms of sunshine, meanwhile, and its interference with recording when shining directly or reflecting into the lens, is also countered by a sunshield or sun hood positioned to keep sunlight away. All of these factors make these cameras perfectly suited for factory yards, car parks and industrial parks, but home owners are looking towards the same type of security cameras for the same reasons. While in most cases, the range of area that must be covered by the cameras is much smaller, the gardens and driveways of a country house, for example, can still be extensive.
The desire for the highest possible picture quality means that home owners do look for the best and most reliable models, just as any business owner would. The only key difference, of course, is that the cameras are used to protect a different range of items, such as expensive cars, perhaps, or valuable jewellery.
Also, the fact that these cameras can be easily operated negates the need for expert personnel. Cameras can be connected directly into a TV for live surveillance, or images can be saved on a DVR for later inspection.
Of course, some things about the CCTV camera have not changed. When property owners want it to be seen, it is robust in its presence, offering a clear deterrent to would be intruders. It would be fair to say that this is all part of the effectiveness of a camera based security system, leaving intruders with a sense of having nowhere to run. Of course, they can also be hidden if the owner requests them to be, just like a wildlife camera.
While the future is sure to see more changes made to the outdoor security camera, with perhaps more compact designs such as those amongst the car camera ranges, it will likely always be the most significant element of an overall security system, for either business or home. After all, alarm bells ring only after the camera has caught the assailant on video.