Home Security

Make your surveillance more perfect

with digital video security systems

Find the ideal video security system for any situation

No matter if you want to keep an eye on your children's baby sitter or you need to discover who's picking up business documents from your desk, hidden video cameras are ideal tools to get your job done. There are hundreds of different video security systems on the market. This lets you choose one that will best fit your home or workplace and put them somewhere near the protected area without raising any suspicions.

With the recent breakthroughs in the wireless technology, most hidden video cameras can now send video signals real time. This gives you an excellent opportunity to see and respond to anything that might be happening at the moment. This also makes it much easier to gather solid evidence for the deeds of people you need to spy.

Video monitoring systems go digital

Digital revolution has also affected video surveillance systems. With the Internet revolution and the advance of Local Area Networks (LAN), technology made great progress in video monitoring in the 1990's. Analog camera tubes were replaced with CCD (Charged Coupled Devices) and most people could buy digital cameras. This combination meant that digital video security systems could do two things: go live over the Internet or a closed surveillance network and give clearer, crisper images that you can track and manipulate easily. For police, digital video security systems meant that it was much easier to zoom in on images or track particular scenes.

The basics of IP-based video surveillance

A digital camera "views" the scene in front of it, broadcasts the video images as a digital signal over a LAN where it is then sent to a computer or server, which in turn processes all of this information. Some software that you use to manage the digital images can even record, display or resend the images to anywhere in the world.

You can easily upgrade your digital video security system package to allow for data analysis, selecting specific items that you want to watch for and many other functions. By using it, you can also retrieve information more easily. If security is an issue, full digital surveillance also offers data coding opportunities to prevent others tampering with your images. Analog recording can't do that.

You can create a "middle of the road" video security system by upgrading video surveillance with the help of a Digital Video Recorder (DVR). DVR systems are not fully IP-based, but mean one more step toward a more up-to-date IP technology. A DVR system actually uses the same camera and cabling structures as the older CCTV analog systems, but the old VCRs have been replaced with DVR for data storage. The data are changed into digital signals so that they can be stored on hard disks, but the quality of the images you have made remains analog.