Night Vision Surveillance Explained
Keep in mind that most criminals love to work at night and hide in your shadows while they sit and plot their entrance into your office, store, or home. I’ve written about the need to remove shadow areas in around your property to make invasion and robbery more difficult. Shadows equal big trouble for you and great places for crooks to plan their strategy and make their entrance.
What a fantastic boon then for your video security needs with the introduction of night vision cameras. It is now easy to remove troubling shadows and chase night loving criminals from your property. Amazingly, there are a plethora of cameras that can illuminate dark areas without having to put up expensive security lights. Once the sun goes down these night vision cameras go from color mode to black and white night mode and become sensitive to visible and infrared light. Which means even if you have a small porch light turned on, it can improve a dark image dramatically and make hidden objects easily recognizable. Don’t get me wrong, security lights are a wonderful tool for fighting crime, but they not appropriate or adequate for all situations.
Now night vision cameras do tend to cost more than regular cameras, but almost all of them are weatherproof and worth the extra money. I recommend these cameras almost always since you can now benefit from full time surveillance instead of just daylight viewing. These cameras can usually illuminate the night out to a distance of between twenty five and a hundred plus feet depending on the model and cost. However, most of these cameras work very well indoors and can turn a pitch black room light as day. With these night vision cameras you can still watch your business all night long without having to keep the lights on and the criminals will get caught even if they think they are hiding in the dark.
For those other people who like to take it the maximum, my arsenal of night vision cameras includes military level cameras that can see out to fifteen hundred feet in a pitch black field. I also have robotic cameras which are IR night sensitive and can imitate a nifty zoom sci-fi like camera out of the TV show CSI. With these cameras you can pull out a face across a parking lot or read a license plate three hundred feet away. Whatever your security needs may be, there are a variety of night vision solutions which can lighten up your security situation and keep criminals on the run.
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