Benefits of A Network Security Camera System
When it comes to installing and maintaining a security camera system, wouldn't you like remote accessibility, higher image quality, flexibility, easy integration, scalability, cost effectiveness? These are some of the biggest advantages a network security camera system offers that a traditional analog system just cannot provide.
A network security camera system allows multiple users to access, configure, view live and recorded video at anytime from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
This allows for a third-party company, such as a security firm, to provide additional services such as diagnosing problems or monitoring the system.
With an analog CCTV system, you would have to be at the monitoring site to view and manage video, and remote video access would require installation of additional equipment such as a video encoder or a network digital video recorder (DVR). A DVR is the digital version of a video cassette recorder.
When there is a need for high quality images to identify people?s faces or detailed objects, network security cameras with progressive scan and megapixel technologies can deliver better image quality and higher resolution than an analog CCTV camera. Image quality is also better retained in a network security camera system than an analog camera system.
Speaking of degradation, transportation of the video over an IP-based network does not degrade digital video. But analog signals degrade over distance when transported across analog cables. In the case of analog systems with upgraded digital recorders, the image still needs to be recorded in analog format, converted to digital for the camera, transported in analog form, and then converted once more to be recorded digitally. All that converting degrades the video quality just a little bit. It's best to minimize the degradation by using a full digital system.
In an analog system, each camera needs a cable running directly from the security camera to the monitoring station. Network cameras can be placed and networked or removed from virtually anywhere.
As a video security system grows and cameras are added or removed, the internal infrastructure very flexible to accommodate the systems needs. It helps that all network security products are built to a standard so any of the products can easily be integrated into the system.
For this reason, once the network system is already in place, it is much more cost effective than an analog system on the basis of the flexibility alone. Network cables and wireless devices are also cheaper than traditional cabling for analog systems.
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