CCTV cameras for the home
Residential CCTV provides many benefits & never before has it been so cost effective and versatile in its uses and usefulness.
The network camera has a human detection sensor. If it detects an intruder while you’re away, the image is captured and sent by email to your PC at work or to your cell phone.
A network camera is one which connects directly to an Ethernet cable such that the images can either be viewed on a PC connected to the same network or even to a modem such that they can be viewed on a remote device, eg. PC. Traditional camera's are analogue and produce a variable signal which needs co-axial cable to transmit the variable voltage used to represent the image. The shielding on the co-axial cable prevents interference from affecting this variable voltage. This cable can be quite time consuming to put down. Then once a camera is in position it generally has to stay there. With network(IP) camera's, they can be unplugged from one network cable and relocated to where there is another network cable. Additionally IP camera's can be supplied with the power over the Ethernet cable. These camera's are known as Power-over-ethernet camera's. This provides even more flexibility as a separate power supply doesn't need to be used, which can be useful in location's where there are no socket outlets or other power sources
Additionally, the cameras can have a personal secure web address. View them live over the internet.
Camera’s with a secure web address can allow images to be viewed only by authorized individuals for instance parents whose children attend a nursery. Only parents with children in attendance would be given a passscode every week (e-mailed to them for instance) which allows them to log on at work to view their children interacting with their classmates to allow them to capture those special moments which they would otherwise miss.
If either a sensor or movement in the picture from the camera is activated a text message can be relayed to a mobile phone allowing the person to view the images on a PC or mobile phone
You can mount wireless cameras around your holiday home, enabling you to monitor it from your home PC.
Wireless camera’s would generally only be used where it is not possible to run a hard wired connection. The reason being is that by and large the image quality is not as good as for a hard wired camera and also the image occasionally drops out and the picture may deteriorate when the weather takes a turn for the worse. Susceptible to changes in atmospheric pressure.
A camera could be installed in a baby’s bedroom and connected to the television. Then whenever the adverts come on it would be possible to switch over to the picture of the child.
The network camera lets you watch your sleeping child without entering their room, even if it’s dark. A network camera is generally an IP camera. It has it’s own unique IP address and when this address is typed in to an inernet browser the image from the camera appears. It can be password protected if required
Using a wireless router in connection with broadband enables the installation of wireless CCTV cameras
Again wireless camera’s should only be used for example in a car showroom with premises on both sides of the road. It would not be possible to run a cable across the road so a wireless camera would have to be employed. Same if a camera is connected to a garage which may be separated from the house with a patio. Again no way of practically routing the cable.