Modern security cameras have come a long way. The cameras are smaller and use less power, while delivering encoded streams with higher resolutions and more detailed thermal data to the user. The network video recorders are better at decoding the data and storing large amounts of information. Many systems now have pixel monitoring algorithms that can send alerts to users for intrusion detection, record licence plates, provide facial recognition or alert fire departments to heat blooms in the field of vision. It is this combination of powerful cameras and intelligent network video recorders that provides us with such a wide variety of solutions for our customers.
Let’s take a look at some of the components of our modern security cameras:
NVR: The network Video Recorder is the backbone of any security camera system. It is the device that gathers all of the video feeds, broadcasts them to a monitor or to your computer via the internet. It will also store the video data, but the size of the hard drives installed will determine the length of time that can be stored.
Smart cameras have an additional processor inside that allows the camera to encode its visual data and store it locally, in the camera, on SD card memory chips. This added level of protection ensures that, even if some enterprising criminal found and removed the NVR from a home, the cameras would each still have several hours of footage stored in memory.
These new smart cameras come with an impressive display of features. Facial recognition, license plate readers and cameras that can be panned or zoomed from your remote device. Many cameras also come with microphones that can capture conversations or alert the owner to increases or decreases in noise levels. The system can alert you to when equipment stops & starts or if there are sudden loud noises in the vicinity, but not in visual site of the cameras.
One of the most critical cameras for the current pandemic is the “Thermal Camera.” These cameras, linked to a smart NVR, can not only perform facial identification of employees, it can tell you immediately if that person has a fever. As we know there are thousands of people that are currently infected with COVID 19, but who’s only symptom is a slightly elevated temperature. Identifying these employees and keeping them away from your healthy employees is critical.
