Security Cameras & Video Surveillance

In today's world, video surveillance for your business is a must. In simple terms, a video surveillance system includes cameras and a Digital Video Recorder (DVR). With properly located cameras, you can keep an eye on your business 24 hours a day, 7 days. If the burglar alarm monitoring center calls you at 3am, you can view your business from home via an internet connection - to see if it's a real burglary or a false alarm..

How a Security Camera System Helps

A video surveillance system for a business helps in a myriad of ways including:

Record burglaries or any incidents

Reduce shoplifting

Minimize employee theft

Prevent cash register problems like "under ringing"

Reduce shipment discrepancies in the warehouse

Improve employee productivity

Diminish litigation liability exposure

Increase employee security

Analog versus IP Digital Cameras

There have always been analog cameras. Analog cameras use video cables to connect to a VCR (in the old days), or a DVR now. Videotex can install your system either using analog cameras or the new IP digital cameras. There are trade-offs between the two camera types, but your Videotex advisor can help you get the best system. Systems with analog or IP cameras can both be viewed remotely if a remote enabled DVR is utilized.

Videotex Security staff are experts on IP cameras. For a great discussion of the benefits of IP cameras, view here.

Analog cameras

The cost of the camera is lower. The resolution is good, but not as good as some of the newer IP high resolution cameras. The overall cost of an analog camera based system will usually be less than an IP based system.

 

IP Cameras

IP cameras are available in a wide variety of resolutions and quality so you can better tailor the camera to the viewing area. IP cameras with PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) are easier to install. IP cameras with a proper remote enabled DVR provide more features. Network enabled DVR systems allow easy expansion of IP camera systems to almost unlimited number of cameras; analog cameras require multiple DVR when the fixed camera limit is exceeded (1, 4, 16, 32).

Why a Security Camera System is Mandatory for Businesses

When you get the alarm call at 3am...

Are you facing the situation on the left or the right?

When your burglar alarm at your business goes off at 3am on a Sunday morning, who will respond? Your choices are: go to your business yourself in the middle of the night with the threat of entering a burglary in progress, or do nothing and hope that the police will respond and assess the correct situation. How will you go back to sleep worrying about that next phone call?

You have another choice - call Videotex Security at 214-349-6399 to find out how a video surveillance system that you can view from your home or anywhere with an internet connection - can help save you, and your family peace of mind.