Posts Tagged ‘camera’

• Choosing the Right Security Camera for Your Business

  • May 23rd, 2019
  • Posted in Security Technology
  • Tags: camera, commercial security, security camera

  Memorial Day is fast approaching. Offering your products, services, and expertise at spectacular rates during this busy holiday shopping weekend won’t always be the best way to draw in new customers. This theory is especially true if you are a… Read More

• The Ripples of the Success of Megapixels

  • September 20th, 2013
  • Posted in surveillance cameras
  • Tags: camera, Megapixel

  Since the start of the megapixel boom in 2007, the growth of the megapixel camera market has significantly outpaced the growth of the standard resolution camera market. Industry experts expect the megapixel market’s growth to continue over the next three… Read More

• Inside Baltimore’s CitiWatch Program

  • December 22nd, 2011
  • Posted in ARK Systems, CitiWatch Program, intelligent technology, Mass Notification Systems, Security Trends, surveillance cameras, surveillance monitoring
  • Tags: 50 cameras, ARK Systems, arksysinc.com, assessment, baltimore 2010, baltimore city, baltimore police department, cad, camera, cameras, cctv operator, cctv policy, citiwatch program, computer aided dispatch, crime statistics, criminal intelligence watch center, cross referenced, design, detection, Facebook, footage, gunshot, Inside Baltimore's CitiWatch Program, installation, license plate, live feeds, martin O'Malley, municipal surveillance, networks, pay attention, police work, prime locations, program, recognition, service, System, testing, Twitter

  Have you ever heard of Baltimore’s CitiWatch program? If not, you should pay attention. CitiWatch is only one of the most sophisticated municipal surveillance networks in the United States. Launched in 2005 by former mayor Martin O’Malley, the program was… Read More

• Putting Wireless to Work for You

  • June 23rd, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: Alternative Path, ARK Systems, automatically reconfigure, Budget, Business security, camera, card access, CCTV, Commercial security technology, Cost-effective, Emergency, emergency response, HD, Head-end, high definition, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Advisory System, Homeland Security Presidential Directive, infrared cameras, Internet Protocol, IP, Maryland, Putting Wireless to Work for You, Residential technology, secure facilities, secure IDs, security, security cameras, security personnel, security systems, Security Technology, Self-heal, Self-Healing, Signal Verification, Technology, Upgrade, Upgradeable, Upgrading, Wireless, Wireless business security, Wireless Security Camera, Wireless Security System, Wireless Technology

  In today’s economy, one thing is for certain; budgets are as tight as they have been in recent memory. But a small budget does not excuse the use of poor security technology. Because of this, wireless intrusion technology has become… Read More

• IP Video Builds on What you Know

  • June 16th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: Analog, Analog/Digital Hybrid, ARK Systems, Bandwidth, camera, Cat-5e Infrastructure, CCD, CCTV, charge coupled devices, coax cable network, Coaxial Cable, Computer, De-interlaced, Department of Homeland Security, Digital Camera, Digital format, digital video, DVR, DVR Storage, Emergency, HD, high definition, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Advisory System, Image Degradation, infrared cameras, Interlaced, Internet Protocol, IP, IP camera, IP Integration, IP system, IP Video, IP Video Builds on What you Know, LAN, Maryland, Picture quality, Pixels, power-video-data, Progressive Scan, secure facilities, secure IDs, security, security cameras, Security Industry, Security Manager, security personnel, security systems, Surveillance, Surveillance Camera, Tansmission Medium, Technology, unshielded twisted pair (, UTP Cable, UTP Cabling, Video Streams

  Despite all the advantages that IP video lends to the security field, less than 15 percent of current video surveillance systems utilize this technology. Security managers are often leery to switch from a system, analog, that they are very comfortable… Read More

• Is Your Campus Ready for IP Video?

  • June 9th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: access, access control, ARK Systems, biometric, biometric access, biometric ID, biometric identification, biometrics, Budget, camera, camera manufacturers, camera types, card access, CCTV, coaxial infrastructure, cost to maintain, Department of Homeland Security, economic, Emergency, emergency response, Expanding business, Expanding or contracting, fingerprint scans, HD, HDcctv, high definition, high quality video data, high threat risk, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Advisory System, Homeland Security Presidential Directive, How to, HSPD 12, HSPD 3, infrared cameras, Internet Protocol, Internet Protocol Video, IP, IP Video, iris scans, Is Your Campus Ready for IP Video?, Lease or own, lens, Lighting, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Terrorism Advisory System, Ongoing costs, retinal scans, secure facilities, secure IDs, security, security cameras, security personnel, security systems, Size of building, smart business choice, smart card, smart cards, Stay or leave, surveillance technology, Technology, telephone access, Threat Advisory System, Threat Conditions, threat level, video equipment, video quality, What is

  Over the past eight years, surveillance technology options have gone from a few simple choices between camera manufacturers, camera types, lens and how many tapes were needed to more complex issues such as choosing between IP Video and HDcctv. And… Read More

• Building an ideal communication network

  • June 3rd, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: 9/11, access, access control, ARK Systems, Available Technologies, biometric, biometric access, biometric ID, biometric identification, biometrics, Budget, Budget concerns, Budget Limitations, Building an ideal communication network, camera, card access, CCTV, communication device, communication devices, communication goals, communication network, data interface capability, Department of Homeland Security, Emergency, emergency response, federal security standards?, fingerprint scans, HD, high definition, high threat risk, high-speed backbone, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Advisory System, Homeland Security Presidential Directive, HSPD 12, HSPD 3, Identify Goals, Identify Limitations, Identify needs, infrared cameras, Internet Protocol, IP, IP addressability, iris scans, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Terrorism Advisory System, Research, retinal scans, secure facilities, secure IDs, security, security cameras, security personnel, security systems, smart card, smart cards, System deployment, System Design, System support, Technology, telephone access, Threat Advisory System, Threat Conditions, threat level

  If you are under the assumption that you can accomplish your communication goals and the ideal communication network with one product, you have been misled. In order to build a network that meets both your current and long term goals,… Read More

• High Definition (HD) Cameras are Revolutionizing the Internet Protocol Camera Scene

  • April 14th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: Analog, ARK Systems, Bandwidth, Bandwith, camera, Cheap, Expensive, HD, high definition, High-end, Internet Protocol, IP, Issue, Issues, Light, Lighting, Low-light, Maryland, Megapixel, Performance, Perfrom, Practical, Price, Solution, Solutions, Surveillance, Technology Maryland, Versatile, Versatility, Zoom

  When Internet Protocol (IP) cameras first hit the scene, they were too expensive and required way too much bandwidth to be extremely practical. Not to mention that there were not too many IP cameras readily available at the time. Because… Read More

• Security cameras going HD

  • October 27th, 2010
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, camera, cameras, CCTV, closed circuit television, HD, HD cameras, high definition, megapixel cameras, security camera, security cameras

  High-definition (HD) technology is changing closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems everywhere. HD megapixel cameras offer many advantages over traditional security cameras but are still overcoming a few technology roadblocks. This page offers a very detailed explanation of these advantages and roadblocks, which we’d like to summarize here.