The use of Surveillance Camera is becoming increasingly widespread everyday as a means of keeping track of employees, locations, entryways, and more. Originally Surveillance Camera were designed to only for the purpose of monitoring the safety concerns, Surveillance Camera is now fast evolving making itself the ideal security solution for many types of businesses and home uses.

The requirement for surveillance camera:

Simply put there are four basic reasons why people want to use a digital video security system:

1. to identify intruders
   
   
2. to prevent accidents or any wrong doings
   
   
3. for protecting the property and people and
   
   
4. apart from security reasons a surveillance camera is also used to keep a vigil on automated and manual processes of a business.

Who benefits from Surveillance Camera? Basically everybody can...

1. Surveillance Camera are very beneficially for homeowners. They can identify people who is at home, check what the baby is up to or keep a vigil on the house while they were away and take steps to protect the house from vandals. Surveillance Camera are especially beneficially for the senior citizens for these purposes.
   
   
2. Surveillance Camera are extremely useful for businesses as well. Businesses can prevent or identify shoplifters or burglars and keep an eye on the business from home. Sadly, today, employee theft is now higher in retail than customer theft and monitoring retail employees is becoming necessary.
   
   
3. Government and Security Agencies - Surveillance Camera are more commonly used by governments and security agencies to keep a tap on high security zones. Airports are prime installations where one can expect to see a lot of Surveillance Camera in use. Military installations are perfect candidates for Surveillance Camera as well. Industry, Research and Educational institutes can monitor processes as well as maintaining security surveillance and keep an eye on trouble spots.

All these things and many more are possible through Surveillance Camera.

What do you need to setup a Surveillance Camera?

The basic components of Surveillance Camera are a security camera, a display monitor, and a recorder. In bigger systems of course, there can be a number of security cameras with multiplexers, time lapse VCRs and monitors. Today, however, much of this analog multiplexing and tape recording equipment has been replaced by digital video recorders (DVRs).

A complete state-of-the-art Surveillance Camera security system will include quality CCD cameras connected to a digital video recorder system. This setup allows for password-protected viewing of live and recorded video at the DVR and/or from a PC or PDA connected to the Internet or to a LAN.

Such a Surveillance Camera as described above can mean a significant improvement in loss prevention and safety control for businesses and in peace of mind for home owners.