ᐅ Video surveillance: IP cameras, NVRs (Network Video Recorders), servers, etc.
Created on: 5 Apr 2018 15:58
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Mycraft
Who has installed or is planning to install a system like this? Does it make you feel more secure? Can your cameras do more than just show images?
This is what it looks like for us after a series of burglaries in the neighborhood a few years ago.
Outside, there are five bullet cameras and one dome camera installed at the entrance. Inside the house, there are three more dome cameras.
Everything is connected via PoE. Inside, there is an NVR with enough storage capacity for about 14 days of continuous recording. However, the cameras are (of course) event-triggered and only record when movement appears in specific areas of the image. (Therefore, the NVR has never actually been full.)
The cameras have different resolutions depending on their installation location, ranging from 3 to 10 MP.
The affected camera can also trigger actions during prolonged movement or tampering. For example, turning lights on or flashing them, sending images via the internet, activating a siren, and so on.
I wouldn’t claim that this makes us live more securely, but it does make us feel calmer. Because you know that as long as no images come from your home, everything is fine.
This is what it looks like for us after a series of burglaries in the neighborhood a few years ago.
Outside, there are five bullet cameras and one dome camera installed at the entrance. Inside the house, there are three more dome cameras.
Everything is connected via PoE. Inside, there is an NVR with enough storage capacity for about 14 days of continuous recording. However, the cameras are (of course) event-triggered and only record when movement appears in specific areas of the image. (Therefore, the NVR has never actually been full.)
The cameras have different resolutions depending on their installation location, ranging from 3 to 10 MP.
The affected camera can also trigger actions during prolonged movement or tampering. For example, turning lights on or flashing them, sending images via the internet, activating a siren, and so on.
I wouldn’t claim that this makes us live more securely, but it does make us feel calmer. Because you know that as long as no images come from your home, everything is fine.
I would feel more secure because I’m looking at it from the other side now: I would have to be quite a brave and especially experienced burglar to break in despite all the surveillance. Of course, that might also make me think there is a lot to steal, but I believe the risk of getting caught is too high for most. So, long story short: it should have a deterrent effect.
Steven schrieb:
You surely also read that one of the boys, after I opened the door and told them, "stop that," replied, "You little fool, do you want a punch?" and then all three of them started attacking me with their fists? Well, what you don’t write, no one can read... at least this is the first time I’m reading that...
ruppsn schrieb:
Well, you can’t read what you don’t write... this is the first time I’m reading that, anyway... Hello ruppsn
I had already mentioned this in another thread and assume that ypg has read it again. Otherwise, the part about the doorbell wouldn’t have been readable.
Steven
Meicel schrieb:
I would feel safer because of this, especially since I'm now looking at it from the other side: you’d have to be a pretty bold and, above all, experienced burglar to break in despite all the surveillance. I doubt that people think that way or make such a rational risk assessment. Those who don’t consider it are probably not the sharpest tools in the shed and therefore aren’t deterred. Those who notice video surveillance or alarm systems are likely “trained” and hardened and still go in anyway. There are no limits to their audacity. Sometimes break-ins even happen during the day, through an open door, fully aware that someone is at home.
Those who are actually deterred are probably only a very small percentage. That’s why I agree with mycraft: passive protection is the only thing that effectively helps to prevent burglary—and even that doesn’t stop the kind of audacity mentioned above...
ypg schrieb:
Knocking on a house and finding men there does not immediately prove that these men were doing something else five minutes earlier.Hello ypg
Sorry. After reading your post again, I realize that you wrote it completely differently than I had understood.
The guys attacked me. I could have identified them.
And the saliva on my face, on my shirt, and on the mailbox from one of the boys might have been helpful to disprove conflicting statements.
Steven
Steven schrieb:
Hello ruppsn
I had already mentioned this in another thread and assume that ypg has read it again. Otherwise, the thing about the doorbell wouldn’t have been understandable.
StevenAh, okay, that wasn’t clear to me from the posts in this thread.