CCTV Cameras and Surveillance Equipment
This CCTV and Surveillance Equipment section of Kellysearch is dedicated to giving you the latest information on this rapidly growing arm of the security industry.
CCTV (Closed Circuit TV cameras) are everywhere these days. With around 4.2 million surveillance cameras in action throughout Britain it is officially the most monitored country in the world.
Spending 78% of its crime prevention budget on CCTV systems over the last decade, the Home Office has been relying heavily on these security cameras to both prevent and solve crimes.
The Future of CCTV Cameras
As cameras and their software have developed so have the uses for CCTV cameras...the latest being:
- Automatic licence plate reading - allowing your exact movements and speed to be tracked and stored for years. Recent biometric technology is also being incorporated into cameras monitoring car-share lanes to recognise and count the number of people in a vehicle.
- Facial recognition software - allowing a surveillance camera to automatically recognise and monitor known people from a central database. This technology is now being used to prevent crimes such as bike theft by automatically checking if the person locking up a bike matches the person taking it.
- Behavioural pattern recognition - Smart CCTV cameras now recognising the body language of people about to commit a crime or, particularly at tube stations, attempt suicide.
- In car camera systems allowing police to record road offences, taxi drivers to monitor passengers or simply to help you with reversing into parking spaces.
- IP-CCTV - The latest technology and the next big thing, allowing people to access their CCTV Camera's images by logging on to their computer network or remotely via the Internet.
A CCTV Camera for Every Occasion
It is not just the government that realises the potential for CCTV and an ever increasing number of security firms, companies and private individuals are making use of its crime prevention potential - even if it is just a dummy security camera.
Along with crime prevention, there are also a huge range of other uses for CCTV cameras in today's society with many different types of CCTV camera to suit the specific requirements of each. As a result there is a flourishing industry in the UK for suppliers of surveillance equipment, or those specialising in CCTV installation or camera repair.
For more information, tips and quality CCTV suppliers see the following.
- Types of CCTV cameras - what's right for you?
- Installing CCTV cameras - what you need to know before you start.
- CCTV Legislation - Stay with in the law
- Latest CCTV information - latest news, views and surveillance products
- CCTV Supplier search - find the CCTV provider that's right for you
As well as CCTV information, June 2008 saw the release of Kellysearch on Forklifts
