In the past when a business owner wanted to monitor a specific area of his/her business he/she had to employ a staff member to do so. This cost a great deal of money, and if there was more than one area to monitor then more staff members had to be hired. Nowadays, the advancement of technology has made it far more cost effective to monitor specific areas of your business.
This advancement has come in the form of surveillance systems. Surveillance systems involve the use of a set of cameras (to monitor particular locations of your business or home), as well as storage and monitoring equipment. This is known as a CCTV system, or a closed circuit television system. The CCTV security cameras will send a live feed to the monitoring device associated with the system, thus allowing one to monitor the area under the cameras surveillance. Security surveillance systems such as these save on the cost of having to employ new staff members.
While the initial cost of a video surveillance system may seem high, you will save in the long run. This is because the installation and the purchase of CCTV equipment is only made once. After this the only costs involved are regular maintenance coverage as well as repair costs – much less than the costs of having full time employees.
For the home user CCTV technology used to be far too expensive to implement in the home. However, nowadays the technology used for CCTV systems has become far more affordable. Now home users can implement a home surveillance system very easily, since CCTV technology has become far more user friendly. Also, the storage of surveillance footage has become far less cumbersome since the use of server storage has taken off. Now you can store your footage on a server, which you can access with your computer over the Internet. This makes it far easier for home users to implement a CCTV system in their homes, and with the ease by which CCTV equipment can be installed today, the home user will find that implementing a CCTV system in their home is not the expensive task it used to be.
