How You Can Protect Your Business Using Video Surveillance Equipment
Posted by Gregg Dixon on Tue, Sep 28, 2010 @ 07:58 PM
We have installed many video surveillance cameras and digital video recorders (DVR's) around the Tampa, Clearwater area. Video 
surveillance equipment cameras and DVR's are an excellent way to stay on top of your business. One common use of internet ready DVR's is to check on your business while you are away from the office. This can be done via the internet using a web browser, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Many video equipment vendors these days have even written software applications so you can monitor DVR via your BlackBerry, iPhone, Andriod or other smartphone.
Another use of video surveillance equipment would be to monitor cash registers in order to be sure employees are ringing in sales transactions properly and also that all transactions are logged into the register. Using this equipment we can even attach a device to the cash register to show the amount rung and time stamp that amount and time on the DVR recording with some of these systems.
A third and perhaps less obvious reason is to have a record in case of a law suit or insurance claim. Some clients are installing these around their prpoerty as well as inside the buildings. This way if a false claim was made against you, you would be able to supply video evidence to the courts to help you dispute any potential claims.
Video surveillance systems have advanced so much in recent years. 
They now make excellent cameras for being able to see at night or in low light. Even PTZ (pan, tilt, zoom) cameras have come down in price a considerable amount. You can now also control the tilt and zoom of these cameras over the web as well as view them using your browser.
IC Realtime is a vendor we have had great results from. You can download a brochure on the Max4 system from Here.
To see more of our vendors look on our site's Vendor Page.