CCTV is close circuit television. Often the thought of a convenience store comes to mind with a VCR and a black & white monitor. With the advance from analog video surveillance to digital video surveillance in recording technology the VCR was replaced by an inexpensive hard drive that if properly built would be maintenance free and provide instant access to sections of video without waiting to rewind. The largest benefit of digital recording or DVR is the video quality. Until recently due to the cost of the new digital video technology, it was most common to run analog video to a DVR and convert the signal to digital in the DVR. With the advent of CAT5 (replacing coax) increased data transfer capacity or bandwidth a high resolution or HD picture is now possible with low cost CAT5 cable. This has made it possible to complete the entire system to digital at a reasonable cost. Most DVR’s today are manufactured ready to be accessed from the internet or networkable creating the NVR or networkable video recorder. IP being internet protocol using an address digitally assigned to each device such as the video surveillance camera & DVR/NVR. A total digital solution is available today priced at a level that it can be installed in any business today. A simple analogy is televisions, you can currently purchase an analog television with a large screen and decent picture for a few hundred dollars. Compare that big tube television to a sleek high definition or HD with a 40″+ screen and there will not be one person in the analog tube television isle even during a financial meltdown. IP Video Surveillance will give you a larger higher definition picture than analog video surveillance. IP Video Surveillance will give you more features being all digital, more effectively using advanced video analytics that can alert you when someone is in an unauthorized area or an item is missing and video search features that make it very simple to scan and find stored video. Video storage has progressed at a lightning pace with new video compression technologies such as H.264 that makes storing high quality video cost effective by not requiring massive storage requirements previously needed for high quality video.Â
- Â IP Video Surveillance Camera’s now available in megapixel or HD
- CAT5 low cost cable with increased data transfer capacity makes megapixel video surveillance possible
- Video Surveillance memory or storage cost at a level where it is cost effective to store high resolution megapixel video surveillance with the addition of video compression technology cost effective and efficientÂ
- DVR’s for Video Surveillance are almost all networkable NVR’s making accessing a Video Surveillance system from the internet possible
- Digital Video Surveillance has made the features of video analytics and search of recorded video efficient and simple to use
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