High Tech Home Security Features
Burglary and theft are huge problems in the United States. According to the FBI, four of them occur every minute, which means that homeowners must find methods to protect their homes from criminals. Fortunately, there are many choices when it comes to modern high tech home security. Monitored systems help provide many homeowners with peace of mind and insurance. These systems report directly to a security company upon an alarm being triggered. They will then contact the homeowner, then the police or local authorities. There are two types of home security systems: hard-wired and wireless. The wireless systems are more easily installed and are portable from home to home. Hard-wired is more reliable, with superior performance, and no battery replacement is ever necessary.
Camera Systems
Cameras can be linked to motion detectors, recorders, or flood lights for additional security. Today's high tech cameras are capable of high enough image resolution to provide adequate image clarity for identifying potential thieves and burglars. With maximum settings, their typical image quality is somewhat better than an image broadcasted to a typical analog television. Images can be recorded in a basic array of colors during the day, but automatically switch to black and white when ambient lighting levels are low. This allows the cameras to capture images at greater clarity in conditions of low light. When the cameras switch to black and white mode, the LED lights on the lens automatically activate, giving the camera night vision capability. The LED light emitted is invisible to human beings but is detectable and recordable using the cameras. A CCTV DVR hard drive for home security systems can fill up rather quickly, especially when recording at a high resolution. Some camera systems have a motion activation mode, which triggers the cameras to only begin recording when motion is detected, saving DVR space. Many high tech security systems allow the user to transfer live video feeds across networks. They can provide streaming video from the security cameras to a computer using an internet connection. They can also transmit the video to any mobile device, like an iPhone, Android, or Blackberry. The camera system's hard drive retains video recorded by the cameras until it reaches its maximum capacity, at which time the system can be configured to overwrite older data or back up video to another hard drive externally. Some camera systems utilize compression, which allows for a significantly larger amount of storage capacity. Many security camera systems offer VGA connectors, allowing the video feed to be viewed on a home computer monitor or a TV screen. They also offer USB ports on the back, which allows for backing up the hard drive or mirroring onto an external device.
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