Many Business Owners, Facilities & Property managers or those alike are often faced with concerns and worries about ensuring the protection of their site, staff, visitors or financial assets and the daunting task of selecting the appropriate product or service to meet their requirements. After a Monitored Alarm System, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) is generally decided to be the next essential asset to be added to bolster site security or achieve specific levels of compliance or quality assurance.
A CCTV system in your business possesses the obvious benefits of deterring criminal activity and collecting evidence in the unfortunate event an incident of a criminal nature occurs. However, this is not the only time a quality CCTV system will come in handy. Systems nowadays can be tailored to achieve very specific user requirements. This can be anything from the simple monitoring of patrons in a retail store to becoming a very important piece of a complex - high security and access control framework that tracks users from the moment they approach your site, providing automated site entry and access throughout depending on user clearances and credentials.
Some of the other most common reasons our retail and commercial customers install CCTV are;
Quality Assurance Many businesses have stringent policies and procedures which must be complied with for legislative and/ or quality assurance purposes. For this reason, CCTV offers the 24/7 oversight of their operation required to ensure these requirements are met.
Piece of mind for you and your staff
Quality security cameras throughout the workplace not only give you, the employer, piece of mind your business is operating as it should. But it also provides your staff with the assurance their employer cares about their workplace and their safety.
Cost & Savings
Whilst the low cost and ease of installation a budget or DIY system offers may seem appealing, many business owners often find themselves paying for quality, digital CCTV systems to be professionally installed shortly after buying one of these systems and they can become quite unreliable and fail to deliver the desired function. In addition to this, many of these systems have hidden subscription costs when it comes to increasing storage capacity, adding functions or additional cameras to their system. Not only will you save in the long term on the costs of the hardware and associated subscriptions, but many insurers will offer substantial reductions to their insurance premiums as the risks are also reduced. Other useful features Analytics & Algorithms High-quality CCTV systems with some very useful analytic features which aren’t available with the budget or DIY options. The analytics allows for the cameras to offer features such as
Virtual Line Cross Detection This allows the user to create a virtual line to be drawn across an area on the camera image. When an object crosses this virtual line an alert can be sent to the user via mobile push notification or be sent to a security monitoring room to be actioned.
Object Left/ Removal Detection By setting one of these virtual zones on the camera, the user or security monitoring centre can be alerted in the event an object is removed or left behind in this specific zone, offering early notification of potential theft, or a more serious threat.
People Counting Many quality CCTV systems now offer this feature. As described, this allows the system to monitor directional traffic and count the number of visitors entering and exiting the site.
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) This feature allows the CCTV cameras and recorder to detect and record vehicle number plates. This can be useful for obvious reasons such as the collection of evidence of criminal or suspicious activity, but can also be integrated into systems such as access control to allow automatic entry into site gates or countless other automation now possible through access control and smart home/ office systems.
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