A wireless outdoor security camera system is quick and easy to install and is versatile enough to be used in almost any environment or situation. Technological advances have created optional features for the cameras that makes them even more useful and for a reasonable price.

A wireless outdoor security camera system may utilize one to several outdoor wireless cameras. Each camera has its own built in transmitter and antenna which it uses to send its video signal to a corresponding digital video receiver. Modern wireless outdoor security camera systems take advantage of the 2.4 or 5.8 GHz radio band technology (the same used for land-line based wireless telephones) for sending their signals.