Crime continues to increase in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, and as that happens, business owners look for more effective ways to secure their commercial properties. CCTV cameras have proven to be very effective in helping businesses improve their security, especially as technology and integration capabilities for these surveillance systems advance.
But can these CCTV surveillance systems really improve your security? What benefits and technological improvements do they offer?
CCTVs can help deter crime and increase productivity.
CCTV cameras give business owners an extra set of eyes to help watch their property and act as a deterrent against criminal activity. Thieves may think twice about breaking into a business that has security cameras at strategic points around the business. CCTV cameras are also very effective in preventing shoplifting in retail environments, even being connected with the POS system, which is especially helpful during the busy holiday season. They also deter fraudulent liability and workman’s compensation charges and discourage workplace harassment. And knowing that they’re “on camera” can be a powerful motivator for employees to do their best and provide a higher level of customer service.
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seful evidence.
Video surveillance systems with digital video recorders (DVR) store high quality images and video as well as video analytic technology that can be used to help identify and prosecute criminals. These CCTV cameras have provide powerful evidence that has been admitted into numerous court cases. With DVR and HD videos, the quality of footage captured can greatly assist law enforcement and litigators to more clearly see and understand exactly what happened at the crime scene. Thus, CCTV cameras become an integral part of a case’s forensic evidence and can save business owners time and money in litigation costs.
CCTVs can even help stop crimes in progress.
Today’s video surveillance systems can help security personnel and law officials to catch criminals in the act. Because these CCTV systems can be easily integrated with the entire security and access control system as well as continually watched by a Tulsa or OKC alarm monitoring service, these surveillance systems can alert the appropriate officials when suspicious activity is observed.
“Intelligent video algorithms, such as
sophisticated motion detection, can identify unusual walking patterns and alert a guard to watch a particular video screen. Object-recognition algorithms can identify someone who might simply be loitering, or even a briefcase or other suspicious object that is left somewhere it shouldn’t be,” facilitiesnet.com noted. “Again, the system can alert a monitoring guard so that appropriate action can be taken.”
With these and other enhanced capabilities like remote viewing, CCTV video surveillance has become an invaluable tool for business owners to help keep their companies, employees, and customers safe. Mac Systems in both Tulsa and Oklahoma City can engineer a CCTV video surveillance system for your company and set up monitoring for the system so that your business is completed protected 24/7.
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