Security is an issue that touches employees in all positions, at every level of an organization. Consider the Human Resources department of a successful retail chain with kiosks and mall stores. The importance of security in such a store is obvious - to keep an eye on high traffic situations, shoplifters and theft. What isn't so obvious is the role that video surveillance plays in coaching employees and reviewing their performance on the job.
From early spring until late fall, hunters comb the forested areas of the Midwest in search of game, while target and sports shooting are popular at ranges all year long. To accommodate these sportsmen, a new firearms/sports retail store has opened north of Cincinnati, Ohio called Country Attic Treasures. Although Country Attic Treasures has been in business for almost 30 years, new owner, Scott Ready, has moved the business and has opened this new store. Country Attic Treasures sells a wide range of firearms and ammunition plus clothing, books and supplies, common to any retail establishment. What sets it apart is its unique décor featuring an authentic stagecoach, placed in the center of the store.
We continue to see quick service restaurants and small box retail stores experiment with the inexpensive lines of cameras and video surveillance equipment that are flooding the market. What looks good on day one of installation, falters or fails six months later. Most of these systems come with a one- or two-year warranty, but the owner has to uninstall the camera on the server and ship it elsewhere for repair or replacement. After two to three weeks, the camera is returned and has to be reinstalled.
One only has to look as far as the next action movie to understand what a concern intrusion is causing businesses. In one popular feature, the hero must dive into a whirlpool-topped tank, filled with churning water, drop down to a chamber lined with vaults, select and find the right vault, open it, retrieve a file, find the exit door and escape the tank in under two minutes - while holding his breath. Granted, this is Hollywood and the mission is more than impossible. But the scenario must cause security officers to ask the question "Just how secure is our facility if someone really wanted to break in and sabotage our business?"
ITech Digital's Technical Support department has seen it all.
Being on call 24/7, the team sees plenty of issues dealing with video surveillance, access control and intrusion integration. And yes, ITech Digital's tech and customer support department is manned by real humans.
Every fall, parents send their children to college. Whether it be in the residence halls, classrooms, athletic facilities or walking home from class in the evening, parents hope that their kids will be safe.
The latest innovations in security aren’t improved device features. The real innovation is software integration that combines the video data collected by your Video Surveillance System with other data files within your business. The combined data can then be presented in reports, a dashboard or video clips that gives you actionable business insights and a visual audit trail.
One of the biggest considerations when researching cameras is choosing the right video quality. Video surveillance resolution is one of those make-or-break decisions that affects whether or not your system will deliver the quality video you are looking for.
As 2015 winds down, we take a look at what’s trending in surveillance security for the new year. 2016 will probably not be defined by its technological advances, but by the spread and integration of several new technologies that have already been introduced. As more businesses integrate video surveillance with the data their systems already collect, they are prepared to evolve and adopt emerging future trends in security.
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