Nothing can provide the power of security and surveillance better than a Closed Circuit Television or CCTV digital system. Analog digital security provides adequate security and surveillance, but with the advent of the CCTV digital system there are far more beneficial features and options available. In fact there is a CCTV digital system for just about every security or surveillance situation.
A standard CCTV digital system is based on components. That means that individual devices (i.e. components) can usually be mixed and matched to adapt to a variety of uses to create the ultimate CCTV digital system. The three components, digital cameras, Digital Video Recorders or DVRs, and monitors provide the flexibility of versatile applications while maintaining the power and integrity of a single, complete and easily controllable system.
A camera video monitor is used to view either the field of vision being captured by one camera or by a series of cameras in a digital video security system. Digital video camera monitors have made great strides in technological improvements in the last several years producing a higher quality, lighter, and more adaptive piece of digital video security system equipment.
There are many security system devices. For the sake of this discussion, we’ll categorize security system devices into two separate groups, digital video security camera systems and non-video security camera systems. In the following article we’ll discuss what some of these devices are for both categories.
Security camera software is the glue that ties together digital video cameras and Personal Computers (PCs) or Macintosh Computers (Macs) as well as Digital Video Recorder (DVR) units for standalone systems. It’s also the heart of remote DVR monitoring applications (Apps) that allows your smartphone to access your video security system. It essence it provides the programming that allows you to control the camera, monitor the camera, and record the digital video files.