Outdoor security camera systems are useful for both business and residential applications. These digital video security systems can provide perimeter or boundary coverage, provide advance alerts of potential guests or intruders, and provide real-time video surveillance of outdoor business structures such as buildings, towers, tanks, and many other items.

Outdoor security camera systems may be used as a monitoring system only where the camera is directly connected to a monitor or as a monitoring and recording system where the camera is connected to a Digital Video Recorder or DVR and a monitor. In either case one to several cameras can be used an connected to one or several DVRs and/or monitors.