- You can see your home or business live, from anywhere in the world. This is THE main difference between wireless CCTV and the older cameras. If you are on holiday, - you can open your laptop and log in to your own website over the internet and look at the live images from your home.
- You will receive instant alerts by text message & email whenever your camera sees an intruder. This means you get a text message on your phone the very minute that movement is detected in your property. Old CCTV systems often can't raise the alarm at all.
- You can look at recorded images when you are thousands of miles away from the property, so if your wireless CCTV system sends an alert to your mobile phone, you can instantly log in, using your laptop or the mobile phone itself, and look at the recorded images to see what caused it. With traditional CCTV, access is only from the same building as the cameras.
- No technical knowledge is needed. Provided you get a fully-configured Internet CCTV Camera Pack from one of the specialist companies out there, rather than just buying the cameras from a general retailer, you will not need any technical knowledge at all, you just plug in! The older generation of CCTV cameras often required a specialist installer.
- Recorded images are safely stored away from the property, not left on a video recorder as with older systems, a video recorder which could itself get stolen during a break-in, taking the evidence with it. With wireless CCTV, images are sent across the internet for safe storage far away from the scene.
- The cameras are wireless, so they are very easy to fit. All you do is find a place to attach them to the wall or ceiling and then run the low voltage cable to the nearest socket. With the old cameras, you would need to run coaxial cable from every camera all the way to the video recorder or a monitor.
- Wireless CCTV uses internet technology, which means it is compatible with all computer networks and will not go out of date as long as we have computer networks, unlike analogue CCTV which is already an obsolete technology.
- Wireless cameras are intelligent, each one is like a tiny computer. They only record images when something is happening, unlike traditional CCTV cameras that are "dumb" and send images in a constant stream even when nothing is happening.
- How often have you seen a photo on the TV news taken from a security camera - often black and white, blurred and fuzzy? With wireless CCTV, the pictures are crisp, clear and in full colour.
- Finally, you can access your camera's images on your mobile phone, and you can even activate and deactivate your cameras by sending a text message. This means that if you leave the house but realise that your cameras are off, you just send a text message from your phone to switch them on! You get none of this functionality with traditional CCTV.
Well, I hope you enjoyed my personal top 10. Now, perhaps when you come to upgrade your CCTV system, you will have a few extra facts to help you choose the best system for you.
Michael_I_Harper
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