RSOL PC Services: Digital Surveillance

Have you ever considered the benefits of a digital surveillance system for your South Florida business? RSOL PC Services can answer your questions then design & install a system that meets your needs & budget.

For the past 20 years, monitoring and surveillance applications have been served by analog technology. CCTV has traditionally been recorded to VCRs (video cassette recorders), and because of its perceived ease of use and manageable price point, analog was probably the right choice at the time of purchase. However, the rise of digital has laid bare analog’s many shortcomings. Analog CCTV systems are generally maintenance intensive, offer no remote accessibility, and are notoriously difficult to integrate with other systems. Despite these obvious deficiencies, the end user who has invested in cameras, cables, and more, and is satisfied with the current quality is right to ask, “Why buy new equipment?”

Digital’s many benefits. With the spread of digital recording technology, its many advantages have become apparent: ease of use, advanced search capabilities, simultaneous record and playback, no image degradation, improved compression and storage, integration potential, and so on. But with digital technology as its core, IP-Surveillance provides all these advantages and many more:

Remote accessibility. The main benefit of digital surveillance is that the user can now see & hear surveillance footage from any computer on the network—without the need and expense of additional hardware or software. If you have a port to Internet, you can securely connect from anywhere in the world to view a chosen facility or even a single camera from your surveillance system. By using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or the company intranet, you can manage password-protected access to images from the surveillance system. Similar to secure payment over the Internet, a user’s images and information are kept secure and viewed only by approved personnel.

Unlimited, secure storage. Store as many hours of images & audio as you want—provided you have hard disk capacity. And store and view images off-site in any location in cases where monitoring and storage are mission critical or need back up.

Flexible, pro-active image distribution. Take snapshots of an intruder or incident and send by e-mail to police or appropriate authorities. Also, police or other password-approved parties can log on to cameras and view activities around a user’s facilities.

Automatic alerts. The RSOL PC SERVICES Digital Surveillance System can automatically send an e-mail with an alarm image to selected e-mail addresses, so the right people have the information they need to take timely action.

Total cost of ownership and performance. No further need of time-lapse video equipment, no more tapes and no more tape changing and cataloging are required. Maintenance costs go way down.

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With the RSOL PC SERVICES digital surveillance system, you can connect & view up to 16 cameras simultaneously. You can attach new cameras directly to the network as your security needs grow. This provides a new set of added benefits:

Viewing access can be restricted to only authorized persons, or live video can be posted on a company’s Web site for the entire world to see.
If the building is equipped with an IP network, then the necessary infrastructure already exists to add network cameras without high installation costs.
Network cameras perform many of the same functions as a standard analog CCTV camera, but with greater functionality and at a substantial cost saving.
Network cameras plug directly to the existing network, yielding substantial savings because the coaxial cabling required for analog cameras isn’t needed.
When computers are already in place, no additional equipment is needed to view the video output from a network camera.
Output can be viewed in its simplest form in a Web browser at the computer monitor, and in more complex security solutions, with the aid of dedicated software.

The digital solution is easier and cheaper than you think. There is a step-by-step path available to migrate existing systems to digital technology. Consider the ease and cost-effectiveness of a progressive move to digital with IP-Surveillance. Now is the right time to take the digital step.

Call RSOL PC SERVICES at 1 888 214 8625 for more information about our Digital Surveillance Solutions for your South Florida business, or click here.

Digital Surveillance for your South Florida Business

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