IP Surveillance
LifeStyle Networks Wireless Security and Surveillance System enables you to monitor the activities of your business while you are away, from anywhere in the world. You can also monitor the activities of your home so you’re sure of the safety of your children or your pets. You can even arrange for a motion detector to alert you via pager or e-mail when there is an illegal activity at your home or business. Video security camera systems are easy to install.
Video surveillance provides many benefits:
- Stretches security budgets: Enables coverage of more locations as a result no need to higher security personnel.
- Deters crime: The presence of a “watching eye” can stop many would-be criminals in their tracks.
- Provides forensic evidence: If the incident requires legal action, a recorded video can be valuable in securing a conviction and may help avoid a lengthy and expensive trial.
- Catches people in the act: Enables faster response to crimes, emergencies and other situations by catching it as it happens.
- Provides a greater sense of security: People feel safer when they know they are in a safe and secured environment with surveillance around them.
- Demonstrates investment in a secure environment: Being able to assure people that you (Government/Private organisation/houses) are able to provide a secure environment.
- Supplies solid documentation: Surveillance videos provide excellent protection against fraudulent liability claims, ensuring that testimony regarding an incident does not consist solely of hearsay.
The basics of IP-based surveillance:
A digital camera “views” the scene in front of it, broadcasts the video images as a digitized signal over a LAN (Local Area Network) / WLAN (Wireless Local
Area Network) where it’s then transmitted to a computer or server. The server in turn manages all of this information. Depending upon the software used to manage the digital images; it can record, display or retransmit the images anywhere in the world over the internet.
The software package can easily be upgraded to allow for analyzing data, selecting specific “flagged” items to watch for and a host of other functions, making it a truly customizable security tool.
True IP-based digital surveillance uses CCD cameras with signal processing that send packetized video streams over the LAN through a Cat 5 cable rather than a coax cable network, utilizing less bandwidth and standard TCP/IP communication protocol.
Here are some of the many other reasons they’re ideal for setting up IP video surveillance:
- For wired LAN network or Hybrid Network cameras can be connected and powered by Power over Ethernet (PoE), a technology that enables power to be provided to a camera using the same cable used for network connection. PoE eliminates the need for power outlets at the camera locations and enables easier application of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) to ensure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week operation.
- Multiple cameras can use the same wireless infrastructure.
- Changing camera placement is simple—just remove and plug into another network jack somewhere else.
- Cameras can be placed almost anywhere using cost-efficient standard wireless technologies such as IEEE 802.11 a/b/g.
- Live video can be accessed via desktop computer, laptop, PDA and even cellular phone.
- IP video surveillance systems scale easily from one to thousands of cameras
- One big saving is eliminating the need for a control room at each location
- Centralize monitoring functions for many locations to a single control room
- Live camera feeds can be accessed over the Internet from any location, making it easy to check out an alert or event from any computer, laptop or other device with a wired or wireless Internet connection.
- Fast search and retrieval capabilities allow you to find, view and review video faster.