Posts Tagged ‘surveillance cameras’

• Guarding the Mainstream

  • November 4th, 2011
  • Posted in surveillance cameras, surveillance monitoring
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  Security cameras have traditionally been used to reconstruct past events, not for preventing incidents from happening. That WAS true…until now. In the past, surveillance monitoring was left to human operators. And let’s face it, even the best human operator is… Read More

• Study: Surveillance Cams Worth the Money, Don’t Always Reduce Urban Crime

  • October 28th, 2011
  • Posted in surveillance cameras
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   With police departments across the nation experiencing drastic budget cuts, more and more cities are beginning to adopt surveillance cameras as a means to fight crime. But how effective can these security cameras really be at reducing crime? More importantly,… Read More

• Addressing Privacy Concerns

  • July 28th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
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  When does increasing security start to decrease privacy? That is the questions addressed in this article from CampusSafetyMagazine.com. Recently, there has been an uproar from the American Civil Liberties Union about Chicago’s plan to increase the quantity of video surveillance cameras… Read More

• Top 7 Technology Trends

  • July 15th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
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  Technology is always evolving. Because of this, it is very important to stay up to date on recent tech trends and developments, especially if you are in the video surveillance/security field. Video surveillance was introduced in the 1970’s with the… Read More

• The hottest cameras when light fails

  • September 11th, 2010
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, infrared cameras, infrared thermal imaging cameras, security cameras, security surveillance, security systems, surveillance cameras, surveillance systems, thermal cameras, thermal imaging

  Traditional outdoor surveillance cameras are good for detecting intruders at least until the sun goes down. When it does you’re faced with a decision to either light the area you’re trying to observe artificially, which can be expensive and impractical, or accept reduced visibility from your camera, which leaves you vulnerable. However, there is a third option that will keep your surveillance operations running 24/7 and even in bad weather: infrared thermal imaging cameras.