The Benefits of Using IP Surveillance Cameras

1.Superior image quality

Image quality is clearly one of the most important features of any camera, if not the most important.Superior image quality enables the user to more closely follow details and changes in images, making way for better and faster decisions to more effectively safeguard people and property. It also ensures greater accuracy for automated analysis and alarm tools.

2.Cost-effectiveness

Using standard PC server hardware rather than proprietary equipment such as DVRs radically reduces management and equipment costs, particularly for larger systems where storage and servers are a significant portion of the total solution cost. Additional cost savings come from the infrastructure used. IP-based networks such as LANs and the Internet can be leveraged for other applications across the organization.

3.Scalability and flexibility.

IP-based systems provide a means for network video products and other types of applications to share the same wired or wireless network for communicating data. Video, audio, PTZ and I/O commands, power and other data can be carried over the same cable and any number of network video products can be added to the system without significant or costly changes to the network infrastructure. This is not the case with an analog system. In an analog video system, a dedicated coax cable must run directly from each camera to a viewing/ recording station. Separate pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) and audio cables may also be required.

4.Distributed intelligence

As a result, events and activities are missed, and suspicious behaviors remain unnoticed. With network video, intelligence has been brought into the camera itself.

5.Remote accessibility

With network video, users can access real-time video at any time from any authorized computer anywhere.