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Security Camera Tips and Benefits for Car Dealerships
POSTED 08/14/2009 by Josh Van Cleave
Most
car dealerships across the country have been
using one form or another of security cameras
for years. Many dealerships still have their
original taped-based security system while
others still use just a monitor with no
recording device at all.
One important thing these holdouts from the last
century might want to consider is that even
without a modern DVR or a recording device the
wire that the CCTV security cameras are most
likely using is a common coax cable still used
today. This allows a great deal of the old
infrastructure and sometimes the cameras
themselves to be easily incorporated into a new
PC Based DVR security system.
If your Car
Dealership Security Camera System has
been installed for so long that you have not
quite caught the significance of this, let me
remind you that, depending on how many cameras
you have installed and how large your facility,
the cost of installing the wiring for the
cameras could have easily been over 30% of the
total cost of your security system. Being able
to use the existing wire is then a great savings
for those looking to upgrade.
Some new developments in the world of professional grade security camera systems include the ability to mix IP or Network Cameras in with a traditional CCTV based DVR. You may have read about IP cameras over the last few months or years and if you read the same articles that I did, you might be thinking IP cameras are all that and a bag of chips. Well, I would not go that far but I do think it's worth mentioning how IP cameras can help the security situation at any car dealership.
IP cameras have the ability to record their video at a much higher resolution than a traditional CCTV camera. A car dealership using the right DVR, such as a Dell Based GeoVision DVR unit, can take advantage of this increased resolution in key areas and incorporate IP cameras into a traditional CCTV environment. For example, a high resolution IP camera watching the cars on the lot can give the dealership owner the ability to digitally zoom in after the fact and more easily capture vehicle plate information than would otherwise be the case with lower resolution CCTV cameras. The same technique could be applied to other critical areas of the facility such as any choke points that either cars or people must all pass through.
Key to this scenario is that based on where we currently see IP technology we believe that your best solution comes from using IP cameras to supplement your CCTV based security system as opposed to building a system of entirely IP cameras. This belief comes from two facts that are often overlooked and buried in the mass marketing campaign that has become the IP camera propaganda machine. First of all, IP cameras and their amazing ability to connect directly to the internet or intranet require additional built-in intelligence that is called a web server. Having a built in web server allows an IP camera to be directly accessible across a traditional office network or even the internet. This feature, however, adds an inherent level of additional costs that are neither devoted to the cameras optics or housing.
Secondly, IP cameras with their increasing resolution struggle to transmit at frame rate speeds commonly requested of a traditional CCTV security camera system. This problem is an age old trade-off of frame rates and image resolution, the higher the resolution the more bandwidth and processing power that is required to transmit the video at high frame rates. Currently a reasonable expectation is between 3-7 frames per second on a mega-pixel IP camera compared to the lower resolution CCTV cameras that can easily record at 30 frames per second. Such a low frame rate as offered by today's IP cameras can have its place but I would caution against making an across the board trade of frame rates for resolution.
Finally, I think it's worth mentioning that when a car dealership implements a modern traditional CCTV security camera system, a mixed CCTV and IP system, or even an entire IP solution that these systems all offer the ability for multiple event notifications methods and remote monitoring capable of being used by local law enforcement in live time in case of any incident.
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