Why should any business choose proactive monitoring instead of traditional surveillance services?

Proactive video monitoring refers to security systems that employ the most developed technologies to ensure the security of perimeters and prevent crime. Traditional video surveillance services are reactive systems that record and save footage that is monitored only after incidents have happened and the damages have already been done. There are many differences between proactive video monitoring and traditional video surveillance. All of these differences consist of the greatest advantages that proactive monitoring has against every other traditional security systems.

Crime prevention

Proactive video monitoring is the only security service possible that can prevent crimes before they happen. As the term “proactive” suggests, the human intelligence behind the cameras will react in real-time prior to any minor incident while monitoring 24/7. These security systems work with the most developed software in order to identify any possible threats to the perimeter. Trained and skilled agents employ proactive measures in order to prevent crimes. For instance, they work with voice-down systems that warn perpetrators to leave the premises as soon as they have stepped closer to the monitored perimeter. In addition, they work with siren systems that are proven equipment's of scaring thefts away. Proactive video monitoring can also save human lives. It takes only one second for someone to take a shot, but it also takes a second for the team of agents to notify the person at risk for the danger that is getting closer and to dispatch the police. Traditional video surveillance systems have no reaction system against any incidents, having so no efficiency in crime prevention, or even at offering help in solving crimes.

Effectiveness and efficiency

Proactive video monitoring are services that employ the smartest cameras in the market with the highest resolution and quality. Their clarity allows the agents to identify possible threats and efficiently prevent any incidents from happening. On the other hand, traditional video surveillance systems use cameras of low quality, making so impossible for the authorities to solve crimes even after they have happened. The low quality of cameras usually results in the inability of authorities to recognize the perpetrators. This is why proactive monitoring is far more effective and efficient than traditional video surveillance.?

Cost reduction

Many businesses perceive traditional video surveillance services as less expensive than proactive video monitoring, but this is wrong in many ways. First of all, with loss prevention and access control systems that proactive video monitoring employs, stolen items will return to the owner faster than imagined, resulting so in cost reduction. The monitoring agents will warn the thieves to leave the premises and will also dispatch the police in the first instance. With a traditional video monitoring service, stolen items might never be returned to the shelves, because when owners understand that one incident has occurred, thieves will be far away from the location. Furthermore, Active Watch clients have witnesses 30% to 60% percent cost reduction when they have shifted from traditional video surveillance to our proactive monitoring service.

AI and human intelligence

Proactive video monitoring systems employ AI tools and equipments, as well as human intelligence behind the cameras in order to provide safety and security to their clients. AI tools and equipments are proven methods of reducing false alarms as well as improving monitoring agents’ response times towards incidents. On the other hand, traditional video surveillance services work through dated and ineffective technology.

To sum up

Long gone are the days when businesses turned to traditional surveillance as a way of protecting their perimeters. Proactive monitoring services are the present and the future of safety and security. Every business, despite the industry they operate in, should employ proactive video monitoring services in order to keep their assets and staff safe and secure. Active Watch Security offers the best and most efficient video monitoring service that will help businesses to prevent crimes before happening in their places of business, reduce costs, as well as prevent any losses.