Military Grade CCTV Systems

Some businesses have vulnerable points to their infrastructure, and may be targeted by dangerous cartels and well armed criminals. It is for these businesses that the use of military grade CCTV systems becomes an important accessory. Used for perimeter intrusion detection and security of key points, critical infrastructure, ports harbours, coastal, marine, industrial, mining, petrochemical, oil gas, homeland and borders. These cameras offer protection to weak points of a business, ensuring continued operation despite the threats. Military grade CCTV host features such as: Extreme long range functionality, day and night vision, thermal imaging. infrared vision, laser illumination, low light... Read More »

Using Directional Lighting To Your Advantage With CCTV

The sun is the best source of light available. It makes sense to use it to your advantage when deciding where to set up a camera. Directional lighting from the sun can play a large part in getting the best visibility for your camera. Directional Lighting is the angle in which the sun illuminates an object. But to use it to your benefit you need to consider the cameras positioning. To start off it’s important to know where the sun sets and rises in relation to your cameras vantage point. With this knowledge... Read More »

Weather Protection For Cameras

Cameras are delicately tuned pieces of equipment. It just takes one small crack on a camera lens for the entire vision ability of the camera to be hindered. Its important to know how the weather can cause adverse affects such as this, and to take appropriate measures to avoid any unnecessary damage. A method for protecting your camera is to consider where you are placing it. Is it in a sheltered area? Is it in a place that the wind usually wails through violently? Can you see if there are... Read More »

Wireless Functionality On Cameras

Many CCTV systems operate on a wired system. With physical connections to a computer. This set-up maintains a durable, weather proof connection from camera to computer. Another option to consider, with different advantages, are wireless cameras. The advantages of wireless cameras can be worth the change. A wireless camera can be placed in areas that a wired camera cannot. Because of this a wireless camera could be placed in a unique hiding spot. The camera could even be placed some distance away from the actual area that requires surveillance, extending the surveyed perimeter considerably. This can be useful as it... Read More »

Anti-Burglar Walls

In a lot of homes the security investments tend to centre around the front entrance and the back of the home can be largely ignored. Burglars know this as well, which significantly works to increase the risks. Protecting yourself from this can be difficult but one of the first things you can focus on is making it more difficult to climb the back walls of your property. As this is the most straightforward way for them to gain entry, stopping them here at this point can be one of the... Read More »

Top 3 Home Security Deterrents

Sometimes a deterrent is all that’s needed to prevent a crime from taking place, and you don’t necessarily have to splash out on the latest equipment to develop some deterrents inside and outside your home. Burglaries do happen, but it’s a crime that can be prevented if you include one or all of the following: Signs – A sign like CCTV in operation, or ‘Beware of Dog’ can put a burglar off, but don’t go too over the top, or they’ll know you definitely have ‘something worth stealing’. Alarms –... Read More »