Choosing Video Surveillance Security System Right For Business

When a person installs a video surveillance security system in their home or business, they need to remember that unless they have someone visually monitoring the systems 24-hours a day, the system will only help in capturing the individuals that violated the areas protected by the system. The video surveillance security system itself can work as a deterrent to crime, provided monitors are placed in view of the would-be thieves, but other than recording the goings on in the area, they are not going to stop all crimes from being committed.

While it is true that most burglars or thieves will not want to enter a home protected by a video surveillance security system, those that are too desperate to care about showing up on someone’s home videos will have little trouble breaching the system. The evidenced gained on real-time video can be used to identify and prosecute them, but as a means of halting the break-in a video surveillance security system in and of itself will not provide 100-percent protection.

Many businesses have a video surveillance security system installed to mainly deter crime from happening and using the videos for prosecution, but thieves still try to get around the system. Depending on the type of merchandise being watched in the home or business, thieves may be willing to take the chance of the payoff being worth the additional risk of getting caught.

Choosing Between DVR and Videocassette Tape

For the most part, there are two types of video surveillance security systems available. In the older, and less expensive versions, all activity is saved to videocassette. Many of these systems allow for time-lapse video taping over a 24-hour period on a single tape. Most businesses retain the tapes for at least 30-days and only review the footage if something happens.

With a digital video recorder, the size of the storage media as well as the amount of action taking place in the area will determine how much time can be saved on a digital disk in the video surveillance security system. On average, a 300-gigabytle hard drive can store about 30-days worth of activity, and can be programmed to automatically record over the images from the beginning of the time period.

Due to the file size of the recorded image, some of the digital video surveillance security system centers will have two separate drives, to double the time available for storage. These video surveillance security systems also make it easier to find specific times that were previously recorded and allow for making copies to save for later viewing or for viewing in court.