Recently a donut shop in Massachusetts was robbed at gun point. They had good quality cameras – but unfortunately they did not have enough of them. They had one camera focused on the clerk and another camera focused on the cash register, among others. What they didn’t have however was a camera focused on the customer at the counter so they didn’t capture a good image of the criminal. Poor camera system design let that crook get away.
A lot of people fail to realize wireless security cameras still need power via a power cable. Wireless cameras use wireless technology to transmit a signal to a receiver which is connected to a dvr or monitor, but most of them use a power cable to plug into a nearby outlet. There are battery operated wireless security cameras, but the batteries need to be replaced quite often. It is quality going to suffer for the farther away that a wireless camera is from the receiver and the more obstructions the signal must travel through the more the image. That being said, there are many, many applications where wireless security cameras are ideal. Many of the wired systems available have cabling that supplies both power and video. This means all the power requirements can be managed from the same location as the dvr or monitor.
With a wired hidden camera, you place the camera in the location you want it. The affection of it just as 16 channel dvr. You connect the cable to the hidden camera and run it to the recording device. It is no need to worry about power that most wired hidden cameras utilize a siamese cable to carry video and supply power. Your main job with a wired hidden camera for video surveillance is to find a way to run the cable from the camera, and have all the way to the recording device not be noticeable by others.
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