Security Cameras: - The Miracle Of Hidden Video Cameras
Technology is racing forward so quickly that even the technophiles are getting lost in the dust of progress. Not that many years ago, a hidden video camera wasn't really easy to hide because they were so bulky and unreliable. Now, almost anybody can afford one that is tough as nails, reliable as the sun's coming up and cheap.
Security cameras don't just have to be used for crime prevention. You can use them to get proof about who's dog is making a mess in your front yard. You caught someone sneaking around your property, but couldn't get a good look at him although you are pretty sure he looked familiar. The perfect solution to this one is a camera that is camouflaged as a floodlight. It is motion activated and feeds a video signal to an internal video recorder. The intruder is being recorded and doesn't even know it. The police love it.
If you own any kind of business, you certainly feel the bite of employee theft. Money or product is missing. Your inventory numbers never seem to match up. Installing a hidden video camera would allow you to record what is being stolen, how and by whom. A man I know owned a liquor store. Product was missing and it took months for him to discover a janitor bringing it out the back door in a garbage bag. A security camera hidden in the exit sign above the door would of made short work of catching the thief.
The cameras that are mentioned above are called dvr cameras. They are wireless and have their own on board memory which records to something called an sv card. They are motion activated. If animals or little kids might be around, you can program it to avoid movement in the lower quarter of the field of view, lets say. When you think you've got your prey imaged, you take the camera to your computer and download the memory.
What you've seen here is just the tip of the iceberg of what you can do with hidden video cameras.
Probably the greatest feature of these devices is that you don't have to worry about placing them where a radio signal can get through to a central receiver of some sort. Locate it, hide it, plug and play. Kids and pets can be programmed out.
The imagination runs wild at the prospects of where to hide them, doesn't it? How about in wall clocks, alarm clocks, exit signs, light fixtures, coffee makers, water coolers or candy bar displays?
Remember, however, that these hidden video cameras will not prevent a crime, just record one happening. To stop crime, use cameras that are highly visible. But, that's the subject for another article.
Octavian Remillard is an electronics engineer with 39 years of experience on the road servicing everything from lasers to high speed copiers. His mission is to make technology easy to understand and install by the average person. You can get more information at:
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