Your video surveillance system is designed to protect you for as long as possible in a reliable and constant manner. It operates 24 hours a day and offers you total and very effective monitoring. However, it is subject to risks such as the weather, malice or vandalism, or simply clumsiness. Many homes or stores find themselves out of protection because of a malfunction due to a disruption of your video surveillance system by an outside agent. Here is what you need to pay attention to when purchasing a CCTV system, so that it works best, even in the event of a disruption.

Obstruction detection

Some cameras are equipped with functions that allow them to detect when their view is blocked. Whether by dirt, because of a deliberate breakage of the lens or because of an obstruction of the optics made by a burglar, your alerted camera will in turn alert you of its inability to function properly.

A secondary energy source

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Your cameras must have a second power source that will allow them to continue operating even in the event of a power failure. Whether in the form of batteries or batteries, this detail is very important because burglars often cut the power supply to homes before burglarizing them, or cut the wires supplying the cameras which will hinder them in their businesses.

An independent transmission system

In the event of a power failure, your internet connection is interrupted. Your cameras must therefore have another means of sharing their data. If they are equipped with a GSM or GPRS system, they will communicate via the mobile telephone network, while if they are equipped with a PSTN system, it will be by the fixed line of your home or your store that they will exchange the data.

Video surveillance in stores: some rules to know.

CCTV has become an essential tool when it comes to protecting your store against armed robberies, robberies or scams. Having widely demonstrated its effectiveness, video surveillance is increasingly used. Its widespread use today must however face an increasingly common problem: the non-compliance of the system in question with the regulations. Your video surveillance system must comply with each standard in force for the images you recover to be usable.

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Be careful not to film certain sensitive areas such as changing rooms, showers or toilets, which represent an invasion of privacy. The places where staff meetings occur cannot be filmed either.

When you install a video surveillance system in your store, it is mandatory to inform all employees. In no case may one of your employees be filmed without having been explicitly informed of this possibility.

Finally, the cameras must not film the same individual constantly. A security camera systems in Chicago must be used to film a group of people or a space. You cannot film an employee, at his station, using a camera whose sole purpose is to be directed towards him.

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